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YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

 
YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe’s Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it’s no surprise [...]

I have email

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Darn after days of no email Mediacom has repaired the email fiasco and once again I am in touch with the world again, Thanks for all the work you did Mediacom. After I bragged them up so much I hated to dig at a bad spot but they have it running again.

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Email Failure

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Heck we made it through a darn blizzard and mediacom is having major problems as there has been no email for over 30 hours and when you call them you get a nice message saying we have a problem with the email and are working on it and hope to have it repaired soon! Hell [...]

Follow in Twitter

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Okay it has happened I am joining the 21st century if you want to read my tweets, and they are not many I plan to tweet more on my up and coming roadtrip,but if you really want to know here is the addy My twitter feed so there ya go folks.

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Would You Accept Google’s Free Netbook?

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

 
People seem underwhelmed by Chromium OS, but maybe Google has a bigger plan: how about producing a netbook running Chromium OS, and giving it away? The small hardware costs would be covered by advertising *in the Web apps*. Would you use one?
Like there is no ad’s on Google to start with? Of course I [...]

Forgot one

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Going back to the article concerning the demise of CompuServe one of the early providers that lost out was also Sprite, one that was costly and hard to access. There was one more that I really have let slide to the back of the tiny little brain but if some one can think of it [...]

R.I.P. CompuServe

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

 
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The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service [...]

Mobile

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Okay thanks to LC the Paradox is now available on your Cell Phone or PDA. Just another way to check out the news and see if I have been doing anything.
Everyone knows that I never do anything but there is always that hope and dream. LOL I hope that you enjoy the newest addition and [...]

Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

 
Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker.
Personally I use all but two of these little rascals and I might have to check into the others [...]

Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

 
Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computers start with a gigahertz-class processor and are capable of acting like home media [...]

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