Geek & Technophile

I'm an IT Professional, geek and technology 'edge case'. I enjoy keeping up with the latest devices, technologies and news in the IT world. On this site I post some of those things I find most interesting. I hope you find them interesting as well.


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March 31 2008

Quick Links for Mar 31st

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

  • Dell to Save $3B Over 3 Years
    Dell Inc. said Monday it will save as much as $3 billion over the next three years as it cuts costs and lays off workers, with measures including closing a desktop manufacturing facility in Austin.
  • Jott for BlackBerry
    We have a lot of happy Blackberry customers at Jott, and Jott for BlackBerry is the ultimate BlackBerry download. It is a simple, but very powerful tool that will let you reply to emails on your BlackBerry just using your voice - either speaking directly

March 29 2008

Quick Links for Mar 29th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • LinkedIn - Your Network Updates’ Personal RSS Feed
    Many users have asked us for a RSS feed of Network Updates and as I'd commented over two weeks ago, we now allow you to subscribe to your network updates via RSS! Find the ubiquitous orange RSS logo right next to the Network Updates sign on LinkedIn's ho
  • 11-year-old takes school network by the horns
    When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Millbrook, Ala., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager.

March 29 2008

Dell’s Response to the MacBook Air

March 28 2008

Quick Links for Mar 28th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • MacBook Air hacked in two minutes
    Still think your trendy Mac is immune to hack attacks? Think again. According to PCWorld, the MacBook Air was hacked within two minutes by Charlie Miller who was generously rewarded with a laptop and $10,000 for his effort. Miller, who had previously expo
  • Insight into YouTube videos
    I remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views. I wasn't so much surprised as curious: Who were these people? How did they find this video? Where did they come from? Today we're taking our first step towards answering these questi
  • Companies Don’t Even Read Their Own EULAs Carefully
    the EULA for Apple's newly-released version of Safari for Windows requires that "The software allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." Obviously, most Windows users do not have an "Apple-l

March 27 2008

Quick Links for Mar 27th

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

  • Comcast, BitTorrent To Work Together On Network Traffic
    Long at loggerheads, cable provider Comcast Corp. and popular file-sharing company BitTorrent Inc. now are working together. The deal comes as BitTorrent, which became known for developing software technology widely used to illegally share files, is tryin
  • City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over “Health Concerns”
    A small, hippie-friendly town in northern California, Sebastopol, had made an agreement with Sonic.net to provide free Wi-Fi across the downtown area. However, not everyone in town was pleased with the arrangement. According to Sebastopol Mayor Craig Litw