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Have you heard about Facebook?
Posted on 31. Dec, 2010 by Toad.
I am making a New Year’s resolution to to attempt to understand the attraction to Social Networking.
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Election Day 2010
Posted on 02. Nov, 2010 by Toad.
I am usually not a political person but I am proud to be a voting american. Election day is a day that I, an American citizen, am able to help steer this country through the election process. On a more geeky note be sure to check out how foursquare is covering the election. They are not [...]
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Walk Now for Autism Speaks
Posted on 20. Sep, 2010 by Toad.
As you may know, Andrea and I have two amazing little boys. Xander is 6 years old and Micah is 4. When Xander was 19 months old he was diagnosed with Autism. Xander has been such a blessing to our family and we have been blessed with the most amazing people to help us along [...]
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iGo My Way iPhone GPS Software
Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by Toad.
I recently received a copy of the iGo My Way GPS software for the iPhone. I have long been a fan of my TomTom stand alone GPS device but I wanted to take a look at some of the offerings available on the iPhone. This will be my first in a series of reviews of iPhone GPS [...]
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Windows 7 – After the Release
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Toad.
So it now been a little over a year since the beta release of Windows 7. I have tried to spend a lot of time getting to know windows 7 as well as trying to find its faults. I want to spend a little time covering my adventures over the past year and maybe give a little [...]
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The Cisco Buddha
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Toad.
While working on a Cisco 3548 we found something a little odd. Etched onto the board we found the following imges. The single Buddha was in plain view while the somersaulting Buddha was hidden under a cable. I have yet to find anything that explains why this is on the board or even what it [...]
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A Week with a Droid
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Toad.
So I finally got an opportunity to spend some extended time with the Motorola Droid. Since it’s initial announcement in October there has been a lot of talk about this phone. Some want to call it an iPhone killer while others call it the next generation of Smart Phone. I would call it a great [...]
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Custom SMS and Mail tones on the iPhone
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Toad.
So tonight I was looking into a way to customize the SMS and New Mail tones on my iPhone. For whatever reason Apple didn’t think this was a setting you should be allowed to change. After all, Steve knows what you want. After a few minutes I found a forum post that gave some generalities [...]
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Windowes 7 Upgrade – The Clean Install How-To
Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Toad.
Did you purchase an upgrade copy of Windows 7 and need help doing a clean install of it? Here I will go step-by-step, outlining the exact process I used to complete my Windows 7 Upgrade Clean Install.
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The Boxee Box
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Toad.
With tonight’s unveiling of the Boxee Beta software came the introduction of something I have been waiting a long time for, the Boxee Box. The software has finally been moved out of Alpha and into beta with some major improvements to the software. They have reorganized menus to be more easily accessible, added a Boxee [...]
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Boxee Beta Unveiling – Live @ 7PM EST
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Toad.
You can watch the Boxee Beta unveiling LIVE tonight @ 7PM EST
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Steve Jobs Says I’m a Terrorist!
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by Toad.
According to a Wired article Apple believes that a jailbroken iPhone is a threat to national security. If that’s not a good enough reason to want to Jailbreak your phone then I don’t know what is. I have jailbroke every iTouch and iPhone i’ve had. The first question people always ask me about it is [...]
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Holiday Update Time
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Toad.
Remember that the Holiday season is a great time to spend a few minutes patching and updating your parent’s computers. It might seem like an inconvenience but it could cost you a whole lot more time later.
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Internet Descrimination or Network Managment
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Toad.
Is Net Neutrality really a fight against Internet Censorship and control or is is simply responsible network management? It has been a highly debated topic over the past couple of weeks and it’s not going to go away any time soon. With the introduction of H.R. 3458, The Internet Preservation Act, and S.1836, The Internet [...]
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iPhone v. Blackberry
Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Toad.
I have spent about a week now with 2 new phones. The first being an iPhone 3GS and the other a Blackberry Bold. Both phones definitely have their merits but which of them is truly the better phone? Of course all of the Apple fan boys are now screaming “iPhone!” but I can’t say that I’m [...]
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Slappy: Good review... no mention of the Google Voice inte...
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Toad: Definitly one of the all time greatest viruses... ...
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John Rundag: I hope you changed the root password or you might ...