Just Like the Pre, I’ve been chomping at the bit for an HP / Palm TouchPad, FINALLY coming out tomorrow. I stopped in at Best Buy to play with one last night. And, I’m sorely disappointed. I’ll be blunt, this is a pretty big let done. Quick and dirty, here are the main straws that [...]
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I’ve been seriously leaning towards buying my wife and I HP / Palm TouchPads when they come out on the 1st. I’ve been struggling with the why, yet, this morning I think I figured that out. I love my Palm Pre, and when I read about, and watch the videos about the TouchPad, I get [...]
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Well, once again it has been awhile. However, I just had to write, or I should say dictate, a quick post. I cannot remember if I ever wrote about it, but a couple of years ago I played around with the speech recognition in Windows XP (I think it was a part of Microsoft Office). [...]
Back in August, I put this Quote of the Week from Bill Swanson up on the blog: “Cultivate the habit of making quick, clean-cut decisions.” This week, I had to do just that. Because the next version of Microsoft Office, Office 2007, is still in beta, and because it’s a moving target of how one programs [...]
I’m pretty upset with McAfee; is anyone else? I’m specifically talking about the new version that was automatically downloaded over Virus Scan – their SecurityCenter Version 7.0. They took their small, effective, efficient virus protection program and glutton it; turning it into a behemoth, inefficient, ineffective, system speed killing, annoying program. All of those were [...]
My blog, like many others (every other, I’m sure), gets a ton of SPAM shot at its comments section. So, awhile back I installed Spam Karma 2 (SK2) by Dr. Dave. It eliminated the SPAM, which was great. But, it also eliminated my ability to moderate comments, which was bad. I looked a few times [...]
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Just some random thoughts: > Brian at Watershead Studio’s WordPress Email Notification Plugin is way cool and gets a big thumbs up! I’m looking forward to the next version! > Microsoft’s Windows 2003 Server – well – I’ll be nice for now and say that the jury is still out on this one. I had [...]
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I really like Skype. And now, you can use it to call any phone in the US and Canada for free until the end of the year. Talking about going for market share!
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I want to take a moment and officially welcome everyone to Alarms and Interruptions. Let me just take a moment and give you a quick primer about this blog and blogs in general. What is this? This site is a “blog,” which is short for a “web log.” It is kind of like an on-line [...]
Today I received one of the most authentic looking fraudulent emails to date. This email, known as a phishing email, is not from who it reports to be – in this case PayPal. It is from someone pretending to be PayPal, hoping I will click on it, go to their fake website (the best fake [...]
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