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I Want To Work At Google?

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve all heard about the perks that Google employee’s have including free massages and gourmet meals but how about the salary… I was just browsing digg and came across The Googlenairs - What are salaries like at Google? All I can say is WOW! this is some mad cash.
In summary the salary numbers look like [...]

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Tags: Business · Miscellaneous

A Handy Guide To Microhoo Saga

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I just came across this graphic on cnet news.com which serves as a short but sweet guide to the saga we’ve all come to know well these past two months.

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Sprint Instinct

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Sprint Instinct was talked about a lot during CTIA this year. This is supposedly the closest thing to an “iphone killer” of any of the products according to many of the CTIA attendees. The Instinct is a nice device, it has a full touch screen with built in haptic response. I [...]

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Tags: Business · Hardware · Mobile Technology · Tech Blogroll

Inspiring Linux Commercial

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

If this were a real Linux commercial it might be effective, but there are going to be those in the Linux community who will argue that at it’s core Linux was not intended to be a Windows replacement rather an alternative OS for a “Specific Audience”. I do like the simplicity of the [...]

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Happy Birthday Apple!

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Today is Apple turns 32. Happy Birthday!

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Finally Google Map Data On My Garmin

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

It was announced yesterday that Google and Garmin have made a deal that will allow Garmin customers to upload their online mapping data from Google maps to their Garmin GPS device.
I have been wanting this feature for a long time. I’d like to try testing it out on my 45 minute commute to work [...]

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Potenco’s Latest Pull-Cord Power Generator

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

A pull-cord generator which is being produced and tested by a company named Potenco based in Alameda California displays potential as being an impressive human powered generator. According to a company spokesman just one minute of pulling a string through the generator would be enough to power to allow a cell phone to operate [...]

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Netscape Is Officially A Thing Of The Past

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Today marks a historical moment in browser history as Netscape Navigator one of the first well known browsers, which now an AOL product is now officially unsupported.  There is a BBC article covering this in more depth.

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What Was Difficult 10 Years Ago Is Cake Now

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Reading techcrunch the other day I noticed a post for a new service called “Rollbase” which is essentially a development platform that allows just about anybody to create sophisticated rich Internet applications. If you’ve developed any web applications in the past you’ll have a ton of appreciation for a service like Rollbase. I [...]

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Is Google Pushing Cloud Computing Too Far?

February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m a huge fan of Google. I forward all email into gmail, I use picasa for all my photo albums, I search with google, I’ve been investigating their Android mobile phone platform, I frequent their code repository, and the list goes on.
I find this latest Google endeavor a bit troubling. Google began piloting their [...]

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