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Best Buy Releases Insignia Connected TV

by Mike Mansell August 2, 2011

Looking back it now it’s somewhat entertaining and equally mesmerizing to realize how far television has come in the past few decades. I mean, it really wasn’t that long ago when a big box-sized television sporting bunny-ears and more than likely only a simple black-and-white picture was considered the “standard.” Now in our present day [...]

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How To: Make Your Website Look Like A Linux Terminal

by Jeff Weisbein August 1, 2011

Have you seen my personal site JeffWeisbein.com yet? No? Go ahead, check it out. I’ll give you a minute or so. Alright, you’re back now. So now you are probably wondering how you can create a website similar to that one. Luckily, it’s fairly easy. All you need to do is copy the source code on JeffWeisbein.com, copy a text file, make a few minor modifications to both the source code and the text file, and then upload the documents to your web server.

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Apple to Acquire Hulu?

by Mike Mansell July 22, 2011

Just yesterday I discussed the recently released Roku 2, the second generation of the somewhat popular streaming media device. When going over the third-party services that the device utilized, I even went as far as to say that I myself have been “pondering dumping my satellite provider in favor for the Roku XS along with [...]

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Google Plus: I’m Really Not Impressed

by Mike Mansell July 20, 2011

Let me start out this post by saying that Facebook is far from perfect. Back in September I expressed my growing frustration with the social network that at the time was being riddled with levels of spam that many like myself deemed simply unacceptable. And while I still think that Facebook has a lot of room to grow and that there are definitely improvements to be made, I must say that the social network is heading in an alright direction in my eyes.

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Do You Need A Data Plan?

by Keaton Taylor July 19, 2011

Most all of us have at one point or another been robbed by our mobile phone carriers by the ridiculously expensive data plans, and while we continue to believe that we need these data plans I’m saying to my carrier AT&T ”thanks, but no thanks.” Over the summer I flew half way across the globe to [...]

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1 Year Later: Was .CO A Huge Bust?

by Jeff Weisbein July 18, 2011

In two days, the .CO domain registry will celebrate the first anniversary of its public launch and don’t forget the fact it recently hit the 1 million registered domain mark after ten months of existence. That’s not too shabby, however, there is no question the launch of .CO was surrounded by a lot of hype which contributed to the rapid adoption.

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Could a Microsoft/Baidu Partnership Compete with Google?

by Mike Mansell July 6, 2011

Serving China, a country with four-hundred and fifty million users online, Baidu is, as it stands, a popular search engine primarily focused on the Chinese market. The search engine in itself has been around for quite some time now, but with Google’s move to pull out of China in March of last year the search engine has become what many see as the go-to search engine in China.

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MySpace Sells for $35 Million

by Mike Mansell June 30, 2011

It’s amazing how quickly things in life can change. Just a few short years ago social networking website MySpace was legendary and considered hip amongst the younger generation. Really, I remember a time when you would meet a person in line at a grocery store, and instead of swapping mobile numbers or even email addresses [...]

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State of Wyoming Makes the Switch to Google Apps

by Mike Mansell June 23, 2011

Less than a year ago I wrote about a new venture that Internet giant Google was embarking on. After years of developing well-known and highly used and trusted communications and collaboration platforms for individuals like you and me, the company was working on making Google Apps specifically for government organizations.

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Apple Dropping Support for Windows XP?

by Mike Mansell June 13, 2011

Even with Apple’s famed Macintosh product line becoming more and more popular and well-supported each and every day, there is absolutely no denying the fact that Microsoft’s Windows operating system easily surpasses the popularity of Mac OS X several times over. But even with the improvements made in the 2009 release of Windows 7 a [...]

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