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Is the internet for sale?
Just reading Robert Scoble and his fears of the internet becoming a closed entity by buying yahoo search and then Facebook. Not sure if I agree with his conclusions but here is how he lays it out. Microsoft buys Yahoo search and has a big search engine, then walks down the street (they are both in Silicon Valley I am guessing) and buys Facebook. Facebook is closed to Google so Google can't index any of the Facebook content and then the … [Read more...]
WordPress 3.1 on 1 and 1 Hosting
Wordpress 3.1 was officially released today and one of the great things about this release is that it seems to support the older MYSQL databases that many people, me included, were running Wordpress on. I have upgraded four blogs on my 1 and 1 hosting account to the new Wordpress 3.1 and a couple that were running old beta versions of Wordpress would not upgrade. The problem was that the version of Wordpress after or maybe including Wordpress … [Read more...]
Make Firefox 3 Even Faster
Firefox 3 as we all know is now super quick at loading pages. But there is always room ofr improvement and best of all since Firefox is open source software there is a lot of ways that you can mod the app. 1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. You will get a warning about changing settings but we are not doing anything too radical so it is OK. Scroll down and look for the following entries: 2. Alter the entries as … [Read more...]
Segoe UI font
Not a big fan. I have just this week switched to what seems to be a great upgrade of Microsoft Office 2007. One thing however that I do not like is the font that looks like clear type all by itself in Outlook. I have changed back from Segoe UI to my old Tahoma that I am already used to. Do you want Tahoma back? Just go to tools to options and find the following Now in the advanced options just go to the Appearance options in the middle … [Read more...]
New Windows Home Server Screenshots
this is a cool product that we have been waiting for now for a little while. It is nice to have the basic services that we are used to having on a corporate network at home. right now this is just for serving files but I would like to see it extended to media features, phone and of course email on demand to any wireless device in the house. Exchange server at home...that would be cool. New Windows Home Server … [Read more...]
