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Qik

By Mark on Saturday, March 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Record, play, share, embed even stream live video with your mobile phone using Qik. Qik is a website and application that captures video with you phone to save share an view your videos from the Qik website or any site you embed the  the Qik embed code. The incredible thing about it is that you [...]

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Shields Up

By Mark on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Are you secure on the net? May you are! Maybe you aren’t! The Internet is always being monitored by hackers, bots and other things looking for computers that have open ports that can be attacked. ShieldsUP is a site from the security and harddrive expert Steve Gibson at GRC.Com. ShieldsUp scans your computer to see [...]

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Backup Your Cloud

By Mark on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Backupify is one of the coolest services that I have seen. Backup all of your online life in one place. Enter all of your cloud accounts (Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress sites, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogger, Hotmail and coming soon Youtube, Xmarks and Tumblr) and Backupify will backup your data on [...]

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SnailMailr

By Mark on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

If your like me a digital man or woman than you really find it a hassle to breakout the paper, fire up the old printer that you never use, address an envelope and make a trip to the post office the two times a year you have to use snail-mail. That’s where Snailmailr comes in. [...]

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Alternatives In The Cloud

By Mark on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | No Comments

I just told you in the two previous post about alternative software but increasingly I am turning to the Cloud (or Internet) for many of my applications. Here are just some of my favorites: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Live Mail – alternatives for your traditional ISPs email with an email program like Outlook Express. Google Docs, [...]

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Net Neutrality

By Mark on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s a video to that tries to explain what Net Neutrality is but it is just one scenario. To find out more learn how to help the cause go to SaveTheInternet.Com to see what action you can take. Also check put EFF.Org to see what other scary things The Man is doing.

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Virtual Drives

By Mark on Friday, November 6th, 2009 | No Comments

I mentioned in the post Cloud Storage Overview that there are some services where you can store your precious files via cloud based storage (on the Internet). Here are a couple of options that will create a virtual drive on your computer as if it was an actual drive. Dropbox is a service that gives [...]

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The First Website

By Mark on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 | No Comments

This is an archive of the first site on the “World Wide Web”. It is instructions to use the “WWW”. Lookout folks, it has links!

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Mint News

By Mark on Monday, September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

On August 8th I made a post Free Personal Finance Managers. Since August 8th a lot has changed. Mint has now been purchased by Intuit (makers of Quicken and Quicken Online). So where does that leave us? For now I’m continuing to use Mint because it is the best personal finance manager. Better than Quicken [...]

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Online AVs

By Mark on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | No Comments

One of the more stupid things I’ve heard said over the years of working in tech support is “Install this free CA Security Suite. It will remove the viruses (viri) that are slowing your Internet down.” WRONG! If you are installing an anti-virus because you are having problems, don’t! A full anti-virus not only will [...]

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