A genericized trademark is a brand that has become synonymous with the class of product being sold like Dumpster, Kleenex, Q-Tip, Band-Aid, Jell-O, Styrofoam, and so on. Today in the tech world most consumers have a hard time telling the difference between the company and the product they sell.…
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I recently found myself under my wife’s car trying to figure out how to get into the fog lamp housing that was full of water without messing up the alignment or dumping all the water on myself. I found it very difficult to hold the flashlight and the screwdriver to see what I was doing.…
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There’s a new wave of spam hitting our shores from over seas in the form of solicitations for SEO services. You can spot these foreign invaders by their bad grammar and spelling. Now they are invading the contact forms on your favorite web sites which means you are probably talking about a human taking the time to fill out the form and defeat the CAPTCHA and not just a robot filling out a form.…
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I had the opportunity to attend the world premier of an independent documentary called
Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission while at SXSW this year. All I knew about this films going in to it was that it was about the son of an astronaut who go to go into space.…
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I got a couple of love letters in the mail to day from the North Texas Tollway Authority. It seems I dared to use one of their roads which used to be free back in 2008 and now I owe them money.…
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The built-in iPhone app called ‘Stocks’ can be used to get current and historical exchange rates for various currencies. If you only enter one code it tells you the price in that currency for one US Dollar. The format is the three-character code for that currency followed by =X.…
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I recently switched from iPhoto to Aperture to manage images on my computer. The experience has been mixed. I am really not happy with the performance. I’m hoping that will get better. Another annoyance it the fact that importing images from my iPhone does not prompt me to delete those images off the phone like it does for my camera.…
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This season of Lost started out with a time paradox. The episodes so far have continued on these parallel time lines. This is similar to the 2002 movie Sliding Doors starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In the end of that movie one time line “wins”.…
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Helping Shawn and the gang with their Drupal Site.
A Flash-Heavy site that displays an inventory of Dental Practices for sale. The site also contains a blog of wisdom about professional practice transitions.
Flash work by KeynoteThemePark.com and WallabyWeb.com.
You’ve seen the meme, if the auto industry were like the computer industry our cars would crash for no apparent reason, or something like that. I think there are some parallels to what’s going on in the computer industry today when you compare it to the auto industry of yesteryear.…
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I’ve got a slightly used Getzen 700SP Trupet for sale complete with case, 2 mouth pieces, mute, buzz holder, 2 stands, music stand, music.
Acrobat Reader has grown from a simple portable document reader to a behemoth. Most of the time you just want to view a PDF. You don’t need all the features of Acrobat when you already have a perfectly good PDF reader in Preview.app.…
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