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Mac Owners: Upgrade to OSX Snow Leopard Tomorrow
0 Comments | Posted by Kevin Quillen in Management, Security, Software
Tomorrow, August 28th, Apple’s upgrade for OSX Leopard goes on sale. Dubbed Snow Leopard, it is an upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6. Huzzah! A lot of the changes took place under the hood, so most people won’t notice much of a difference visually. This upgrade was strictly about performance improvements, with a few minor UI [...]
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Leveraging Social Networks to Your Advantage
0 Comments | Posted by Kevin Quillen in Software, Teamwork, Web 2.0, Web Applications
A lot of people ask me how they can use social networking applications to their advantage. I’ve been around since social networking 1.0 days (Geocities, Friendster, LiveJournal, message boards) before it was revolutionized into complex networks of interconnected folk providing rapid-fire microcontent. Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace run the show now, all of which integrate into [...]
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Ride The Google Wave of Efficiency
0 Comments | Posted by shaun in Custom Website Design, Social Networking, Software, Web 2.0, Web Applications
Email was conceived during the creation of the internet. It was built for the simple task of moving information between two recipients. Even though mass mailers can be sent out to thousands of people, the correspondence is truly between two people. If the person who received the email wants to reply with more information, it [...]
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Stay Safe
0 Comments | Posted by shaun in Ideas, Security, Software, Web 2.0, Web Applications
The basic concept has always been simple. It has never changed. You’ve heard it countless times from your mother growing up; and perhaps even a spouse or friend. The concept? Stay safe. Most people don’t walk around with their credit card taped to their shirt like a “Hello, my name is” sticker. So, why do [...]
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Google Announces Google Chrome OS
0 Comments | Posted by Kevin Quillen in Security, Software, Tech Stuff, Web 2.0, Web Applications
Google has announced they are working on an thin-client operating system called the Google Chrome OS. This is huge news and brings rest the rumors of Google working on its own operating system (because they are!). Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast [...]
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Drinking the Kool-Aid
0 Comments | Posted by Kevin Quillen in Hardware, iPhone / iPod Touch, Management, Rants & Raves, Reviews, Software, Tech Stuff, Web 2.0
So, I recently purchased a MacBook out of frustration. What I thought would be a labor of love was an initial confusing 30 minute learning curve, and now I pwn that new OS. After trying to get Windows 7 to install, XP Pro to install, and after that Ubuntu (even Ubuntu failed) on an older [...]
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Cuil Suhx
0 Comments | Posted by Kevin Quillen in Reviews, Search Engine Optimization, Security, SEO, Software, Web 2.0, Web Applications
Cuil. What is Cuil? How do you say Cuil? If anyone noticed in the last two days, a new internet upstart is claiming to be better than Google at searching. Cuil is pronounced ‘cool’ and is anything but. Better than Google at searching? Pretty bold claim. Bold enough to make major headlines at a lot [...]
