2011 in review

Posted: January 4, 2012 in Uncategorized
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 25 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

New Google+ Features

Posted: September 25, 2011 in Google
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This week we saw some great new features in Google+. Most of what’s new is to Hangouts.

  1. Search – First is the one everyone has been waiting for and that’s search. When Plus first came everyone said, “Are you kidding me no search? It’s Google for Christ sake!” Now it’s here. It is very well implemented. It is a great way to find new people to Circle. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s Build It

Posted: September 22, 2011 in Rants
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The US is not even among the top 10 nations when it comes to broadband speed. The reasons, greed and fear. Greed because it is more profitable for the big telecoms to spend less money on infrastructure. They can refrain from improving the network and stick the savings in their pockets. Fear because the telecoms don’t want you to download your movies instead of paying for premium channels on cable. Read the rest of this entry »

Free Video Editor

Posted: September 11, 2011 in Linux
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Yes there is a free video editor. Lightworks beta is not just free but it is full featured.  It has been used on such films as the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech and the critically acclaimed Hanna. Read the rest of this entry »

Kindle Web App

Posted: August 27, 2011 in Web 2.0
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Amazon has releast a new HTML5 Kindle app for Chrome and Safari. Now you don’t have to buy a Kindle reader or get eye-strain reading on your phone. You can read books right inside your web browser on your computer. Amazon maked this web application to get around Apple’s wanting a huge percentage of their Kindle book sales when purchased from an iPad app. Read the rest of this entry »

Can’t figure out why your browser takes forever to load? See if your addons are the culprit with this helpful page from Mozilla. Veronica has more on today’s Tekzilla Daily. Read the rest of this entry »

Google+ Tips

Posted: August 5, 2011 in Google
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Still trying to figure out how to use Google+? Veronica has a few helpful hints on getting the most out of the newest social network on this Tekzilla Daily. Read the rest of this entry »

Turn Off Email Notifications In G+

Posted: August 5, 2011 in Google
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Hate those irritating Google+ emails notifying you that someone’s added you to their circle? On today’s Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to make sure that you only get the emails you actually want. Hate those irritating Google+ emails notifying you that someone’s added you to their circle? Read the rest of this entry »

Vertical Verticals

Posted: August 4, 2011 in Tips
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The one thing that bothers me the about some of my photos and the photos of others is having straight lines that are not parallel to the vertical and horizontal plans. What I mean is vertical lines should be vertical and horizontal lines should be horizontal. The exception to this is converging lines like train tracks. The further away the closer together the lines appear. Read the rest of this entry »

Google+ Pros and Cons

Posted: August 2, 2011 in Google
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I’ve been using Google+ for about a month and I think it is fantastic. I’ve been using it to communicate what I think is important in the tech world mostly. I’ve also been reading a lot of post from others, Trey Ratcliff the photographer, Leo Laporte and others in TWiT family to name a few.  Read the rest of this entry »