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Rogers announce iphone prices, customers not happy

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Canada’s largest wireless carrier, Rogers Communications, announced pricing plans, Friday, for Apple’s 3G iPhone.
Due to hit Canadian stores on July 11, many customers may not be rushing out to buy one. Although the actual cost of the phone itself is almost the same in Canada and the United States, the monthly costs are not.
Rogers [...]

10 Great Software Programs You Can Get Gratis

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

 
As we bring another season of The PC Guy column to a close — I’ll be off for the summer — let’s take a quick look at 10 cool and free software programs. They include Paint.net, EssentialPIM, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, CDBurnerXP, 7-ZIP, Stickies, WordWeb and ooVoo. Coming out of left field in an already crowded [...]

Ferocious Attack Kitten

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I found this when cruising around today enjoy and it might just be still available if you want it. It is over on Craigslist if you are interested.
Ferocious attack kitten is available for adoption to any home willing to accept him.
This destructive kitty has been trained as a proud warrior and will fiercely defend your [...]

Bill Gates’ greatest hits and misses

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

June 30 marks Gates’ last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant’s founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet’s editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates’ many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed the mark.
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200,000 sites spreading web malware, China’s hosting the most

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled “May 2008 Badware Websites Report” summarizingBadware sites May 2008 the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google’s Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer and iEurop. [...]

Is it just me?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

This was sent to me and I thought that since I am in the middle of the this happy stuff I should post this and maybe get a few of folks out there thinking just a little bit.
Every tv station I know of has a phone in line or an email address for people [...]

George Carlin mourned

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.
He will be missed for sure. A funny, funny guy…
Source: Yahoo News
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Early Morning

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Okay maybe I got up a tad early today to start my brisket here are a few pics to show what it looked like this morning.
Darn it is Dark
Yes Dawn comes really Early
Darn even the moon is confused
More to come later with a little luck.
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox

Summer is Here

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Don’t forget folks today is the longest day of the year with here in this area anyway over 13 hours of sunlight. Hey that is the weathermans claim not mine. But have a good day and with a little luck these gawd awful floods will end soon.
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox

Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today.
Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than [...]

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