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iPhone Losers
The New York Times ran a story yesterday discussing the plight of iPhone speculators. These are people who waited in line to buy one or more iPhones to sell on eBay, Craigslist, etc. Apparently they have not been faring very well. Some have returned them due to poor response. Others have actually sold them at […]
Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty
Microsoft has announced that it’s going to extend the warranty on the Xbox 360 and implement some design changes for future manufacturing of the product as a result of the product suffering from a significant amount of hardware failures. The warranties will be extended to 3 years from the date of purchase. Microsoft, who also […]
Secunia Software Inspector
It’s interesting how Windows users are always so concerned about having the latest updates for their operating system installed but don’t take the time to be sure their other software is up to date. I was recently turned on to the Secunia Software Inspector that checks for updates of installed software as well as Windows […]
Tricia’s Quicken Tutorials
I was trying to work out some things in Quicken when I got stumped. I couldn’t figure out how to do what I wanted to do and the online help wasn’t very helpful. After some Google searching I came found Tricia’s Tutorials. Though Tricia doesn’t update it anymore this site is full of great tutorials […]
Cleaning Video Noise From Home Video
We recently celebrated my dad’s 65th birthday with a nice dinner party. I had brought my camcorder with me for the purpose of shooting some video that I would download to my computer, burn to DVD and distribute to family. When I downloaded the video from the camcorder I was less than enthusiastic about the […]