Tech

  • Get the Flock out

    I downloaded Flock, the “Social Browser”, last night and have been playing with it a bit to see how it works. In terms of being a “social” browser, it definitely is that, with the blogging, photo uploading, RSS feeds and other social network plug-ins incorporated directly in to the browser. On the other hand, I haven’t…

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    Pownce

    Yes, it’s true. I did sign up for yet another Twitter competitor, thanks to having some connections with invites to the new Pownce service. 🙂 Mostly, I just want to see what the difference is, compare the services, the features, and see which one works better for what I like to use it for. While…

  • Stupid MySpace Security

    So here’s a good one. Angela logged in to her MySpace account to send a message to a friend of hers. When she did, it gave her an error about the spam filter, then she was prompted to change her password because her account had been phished, which it hadn’t. Stay with me on this…

  • Whoo Hoo I got one!!!

    Yeah I got an invite to the Alpha test of Trillian Astra. What did you think I was talking about? Is there something else going on this week? 😉 Anyway, I had actually forgotten all about signing up as being interested, it’s been that long. I actually haven’t been using Trillian a whole lot lately….

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    New system Notes

    Just a few things that have struck me about my new Vista machine: OK, so Dell announced on June 18 that they were going to allow customers the option to not have some pre-installed software. I ordered my system the week before that and saw that option, how new is it really? This system came…

  • What a day

    I got to work this morning and the new super-charged, powerful machine wouldn’t boot. After about an hour and a half of troubleshooting on my own, I eliminated the drive being the problem, even a brand new drive gave me a no device found error. At that point, it was time to gather up all…