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Monthly Archives: June 2011

So How Do Fiber Optics Work?

A large reason YouTube is such a great educational tool.  You can find ANYTHING on it!  Here we see the Engineer Guy explain fiber optics in very easy to understand terms.

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Songbird–Back from Migration

Yes, I finally have tired of using Winamp for my music management.  I mostly use it to organize and transfer my playlists to my portable Cowon player.  At the time, Winamp was the one thing that would recognize the Cowon and transfer playlists.  In just opening it up recently, I noticed it did recognize the [...]

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Skype Not the Only One Anymore

So we all know Microsoft bought Skype.  Did you hear all the splashing?  That was the rats jumping off thinking the end was near for Skype.  Unfounded?  Well, I found it interesting that immediately after the acquistion Skype experienced some outages. But, let’s get beyond that and look at what made the folks at Skype [...]

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Gingerbread Update

So I upgraded the EVO to Gingerbread last weekend.  Happy to finally see this upgrade come OTA, so I went ahead with the download.  It actually downloaded and installed pretty quickly, so I hoped everything came out fine. Not too much difference was noticed.  Some of the icons (when turning volume up, 3G, etc) were [...]

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Apple’ New Innovation–iCensor

Well of course one of the most closed businesses in the world will not be releasing anything that gives their users choice.  We know that, we’ve seen their control over the iOS in the iPhones and iPads.  So we can deal with that, we can buy an Android device.  Now though, another disturbing possibility coming [...]

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