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Craiglist listing gone really bad

Published on Mar 26th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, thumbs down | No Comments »

When I read this I couldn’t believe myself, apparently it’s not the first time happening either. I have never used Craiglist but this kind of story makes it easy to believe how powerful of a network it has created in some areas (in case you have never been to the 1997-looking site, it’s all about [...]

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Vista crashing in the most simple of tasks

Published on Mar 20th, 2008 in blog, microsoft, software, thumbs down, windows | 8 Comments »

So let me rant for a bit. After defending Windows Vista, not because I like Microsoft but because based on my experiences I have had relatively few problems with the OS, last night I saw it giving me a deja vu of the early Win95 days!
A solid install of Vista now running SP1 was put [...]

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Crazy, crazy funding for a web startup

Published on Mar 16th, 2008 in blog, the web, thumbs down | 1 Comment »

Just like a bad habit or a reality TV-like guilty pleasure, over the past few weeks I have grown accustomed to check out startup-related blog TechCrunch once a day just to see what’s popping around the web. It’s been exciting times for a while on the web now, the late nineties bubble is well forgotten, [...]

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Say hello to TechSpot Mobile

Published on Mar 9th, 2008 in blog, techspot, the web | No Comments »

Now you can catch up with the latest technology news from your cell phone using our new gorgeous looking mobile portal.
Although we already offered RSS feeds that are mobile friendly, and depending on your device Opera Mini could let you render the full fledged frontpage, this is even better. We used the tools from startup [...]

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Improved tabbed story navigation in TechSpot news

Published on Mar 7th, 2008 in blog, techspot | No Comments »

With the upcoming TechSpot redesign proving more challenging and time consuming than anticipated, I have been optimizing a few things here and there on the current site despite of the fact it’s now officially EOL soon.
But because I’m planning on a few giveaways and we will have people browsing and landing on news story pages [...]

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Nine Inch Nails follows Radiohead with free album web release

Published on Mar 4th, 2008 in blog | No Comments »

Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
“Ghosts” is released under a non-commercial Creative Commons license and can be shared freely, something [...]

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Turn a small home UPS into a giant UPS (video)

Published on Mar 2nd, 2008 in blog, hardware, thumbs up, tips & tricks, video | 4 Comments »

Having a UPS is fairly common these days. However, one gripe I’ve always had and that you might too is the limited capacity you get on them. Even nicer $200+ ones might only give you a few minutes on a powerful PC, and for large capacity you could easily spend $1000 or more. Neither option [...]

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Do you Twitter?

Published on Feb 26th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, the web, thumbs up | 1 Comment »

I know I’m like months behind the trendy web, but just recently I thought I would try one of these micro-blogging platforms, and Twitter is by far the most popular out there, so I opened an account and I have been micro blogging since yesterday.
So far so good, although nobody is reading my stuff but [...]

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Apple prepares new MacBooks, release set for tomorrow

Published on Feb 25th, 2008 in apple, blog, rumor mill, the web | No Comments »

Edit #2: Announcement made, full story here.
Edit: Forgot to mention this story from the Financial Week on how Apple is currently sitting on a pile of cash estimated at $18.4 billion.
There is an inexplicable enthusiasm for whatever Apple has to announce next, and while the hype behind products like the iPhone is more than justified, [...]

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Interesting poll results on PC gaming and sales

Published on Feb 21st, 2008 in blog, gaming, interesting links, techspot, the web | 2 Comments »

When time came to think about a new topic for TechSpot’s biweekly poll, I thought that doing something about the state of PC gaming and how sales are being generated was very timely considering the many recent headlines about just that…
The results have been very surprising to an extent:

The poll is not over yet and [...]

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