Archive for April, 2006

Apr 28 2006

Making the Switch to Digital

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

SearsWishbook.1983EC.P408 Originally uploaded by Sears Wishbook. Thanks to Digg I found this bit o’ history at the Flickr website. It looks to me like the word awesome was coming into its own about the time that the word digital was. I love how they relate the workings of the CD to the old technology. “Wow [...]

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Apr 20 2006

More Windows and Mac Stuff

Published by Andy Rush under IT,News & Commentary

One of the sites that I have found to be invaluable lately is Paul Thurrot’s SuperSite for Windows (I noticed the web browser title bar says “SuperSit”, hehe). Two recent articles were good reads, as Paul is brutally honest about his findings. He is not a Windows biggot or a Mac hater, just honest. The [...]

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Apr 14 2006

Back To a Barter Economy

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

Is money becoming obsolete? Is the web going to enable us to just trade for things we need. Some of the recent evidence of note is the One Red Paperclip site that I referenced earlier, and also a new site called Zunafish. Its idea is to allow people to trade their old, unwanted media for [...]

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Apr 11 2006

The New Email

Published by Andy Rush under General

Bloglines was having major issues today. It got so bad that they got to introduce who was actually in charge of keeping things running It also made me realize that a backup to Bloglines is in order. I’ve heard others recommend BlogBridge, so I’ll give it a go. Plus it imports Bloglines feeds!

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Apr 07 2006

Easy, Free, Videoblogging

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video,Screencasts

My newest screencast to help you start videoblogging. Using two free websites, WordPress.com and YouTube.com, you can have video up on your blog in no time.

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Apr 05 2006

Windows on a Mac – That Is So 1996

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

All signs pointed to Windows running on the new Macs. The question will be, how fast. It was a dog ten years ago. Here’s the latest PR-speak from Apple: “but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple’s superior hardware, now that we use Intel processors,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president [...]

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