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SLOB's Racing Game
2008-06-10 10:12:00
Like to play racing games?  There is a cool little racing game that is free to play on you computer between homework assignments or when you just need a break from your work routine.  You race on a road course type track where the track is made from office supplies. The online racing game is called 'Office Depot Slob's Racing ', from the firm of Office Depot, Office Depot also sponsers NASCAR I do believe. The SLOBs stand for Strange Little Office Beings as they're officially known, you never see them but they are there.  The racing game is fun to play when you have some extra time.Cheers
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Bank going Social
2008-06-10 10:09:00
Bank opens social networking flood gatesWachovia bank is now letting their employees access wikis, blogs and profiles that include photos and information about the roles of employees. Their social network allows users to access a corporate directory for contact information and can note whether an employee is available via instant messaging or phone or is in a meeting.  Now that is cool, I have been needing that for years at most businesses I have worked at.The employees will also be able to create their own ad hoc wikis and blogs.  Most of the Wikis will be set up for processes, policies and products.  For 120,000 people to access this kind of social networking, they must be using Web 2.0 tools and a good size IT staff.  May time to look into this for my company.CheersCovering the latest cutting edge of Technology, Business, Internet trends,  Marketing, and Entertainment along with the latest News of the day and I will try to entertain with wit and wisdom al...
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The Need for Speed : Petaflop
2008-06-10 00:14:00
Supercomputing's petaflop barrier has been broken by IBM with the RoadRunner system. IBM's RoadRunner system is capable of more than one thousand trillion (one quadrillion) sustained floating-point operations per second.After the petaflop barrier the next speed to shoot for is the exaflop, exaflop is a million trillion calculations per second or a quntillion. Exaflop is a 1000 times faster than a petaflop. Is this like the speed of light. Need to get out my calculator for this. The RoadRunner system cost IBM around $100 million dollars. I bet this little puppy could run fast on the internet.  Hook it up to an OC3 to get the browsing speed we can all use.This just show's the fast get faster :)Cheers
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Unique Marble Fireplaces
2008-06-09 23:51:00
After being married for several years there are things that you both like and dis-like. The one thing that both my wife and I like in our house is a fire place. We have had plain fireplace to no-fireplace, not a good time, and moved on to a all rock fire place with wood self. The perfect fireplace, almost. Now I have found a direct importer of marble and natural stone fireplaces. My next choice will be for marble fireplaces, there are some of the most amazing sculptured from different color marble and designs.If you are deciding to get your own marble fireplace see the folks at Marble Unique , they are a provider of stone and some amazing marble fountains, beautiful stone sculptured statues and the custom looking fireplaces.When I get the marble fireplace, what do you polish and clean marble with.Cheers
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Looking for affordable group health insurance plans
2008-06-09 23:50:00
As a whole we work on staying healthy, right food, right thoughts, and right sleep help make us who we are. During life activities working on safety is just important as doing the activity such as tennis, mountain climb or soccer. They are safe actives, but sometimes we have bumps where we hurt ourselves.  The last time I hurt myself with a hand ax and my thumb got cut.Going to the emergency room is not a fun chore, it is better when you have insurance.  Getting insurance is available in a couple of ways via your company or buy it yourself.  The folks at USA-Health Insurance .com, they are a broker offering  affordable health insurance Pennsylvania, just one of  many states that they are offering affordable individual, family, and group coverage insurance along with dental plans.  USA-Health Insurance will provide you with free quotes on both individual & small business health & dental insurance plans.  Health plans from United, Blue Cross Bl...
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IT is HERE - 3G iPHONE
2008-06-09 22:52:00
We can all now take a breather for a few more months, now that Apple announce todaya that the 3G iPhone is coming next month, 11th day July. The new iPhone is using iPhone 2.0 firmware update. What now camp out infront of the local AT&T retail store until it arrives.The new iPhone 3G highlights    * 3G data 2.8 times faster    * iPhone is thinner    * Flush headphone jack    * Price drop: $199 for 8GB, 2.99 for 16GB    * Support for Microsoft Exchange    * Maps with GPS    * App Store for browsing and downloading applications    * The 16GB model also available in white    * Shipping to 22 countries on July 11firmware 2.0:    * Complete support for Office docs Word, Excel and PowerPoint    * Parental controls    * Temendous language support    * Asian language support, including character...
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SEO and Press Releases
2008-06-09 20:05:00
Press release's are good for SEO, I still get traffic from some Press releases I did over 3 years ago. The more you do the better chance that some of those press release will hang around a provide you a link for years to come.New release, press release, media release or a press statement are written communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value. Potential new customers also will read press release.  A press statement is sent to editors at newspapers, internet press release companies, new organizations, magazines, radio stations, television stations, and/or television networks. Commercial press-release distribution services are also used to distribute news releases. The use of news releases is common in the field of public relations or SEO, the aim of SEO is to attract favorable media attention to your company. Free publicity is what I aim for when I send out press releases, these PR statements attract f...
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Radio Disney Concert Series Free
2008-06-09 20:03:00
The weather is gotten real hot in the 90's all week, going to be a toasty June. Now that school is getting out there will be some free time for vacation.  If you want to save a little  money you might want to check out the Radio Disney Concert Series in the city of Wildwood in New Jersey. Radio Disney Summer Concert Series will be one of this years Wildwood events that will held at Morey?s Piers in the month of July, Guess what the concerts are FREE and lots of the Top Radio Disney artists will be on hand. My northern cousins tell me that Morey?s Piers is a great place for a ?New Jersey Vacation?, and coming up that have a ?Things to do in New Jersey? list for us to do. The Radio Disney Summer Concert Series starts on July 7 and will have several concerts until the finale is scheduled for 2 pm Saturday, July 26, 2008 at the Wildwoods Convention Center Oceanfront Arena with Raven-Symone from Disney Channel?s ?That?s so Raven?.July 7th, 14th and 21st  will be ...
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Idaho home loans for that house you have been wanting
2008-06-09 17:24:00
The wife and I watch allot of HDTV. You know the place where they do all the house flips and what/where to improve to bet the best price for your house. The best part that I like is  where they are building large log cabin homes with 20,000 square feet on a vast piece of property with a great view.  I think it would be fun to find the areas where they built these type of homes.  Most of these homes were on the left coast side of the US.  I bet, with your home built with a tree in the middle of it and not your standard type of home mortgage. For everyone else that have a  regular home and live in the great state of Idaho, where the air is fresh and potatoes.  Taking out a Idaho home loans is probably the biggest, or close to the biggest, financial undertaking you will ever make. Naturally, everyone wants to know which mortgages are the best ones. Which one will give you the lowest rates. Nothing beats low.If you need to Refinance Idaho home or looking fo...
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Weight loss and the cycle of the year
2008-06-09 13:33:00
There seems to be two times a year that the human masses want to lose weight, first of the year and Spring/Summer time.  The first of the year is a mental thing with carbon based life forms. You start an exercise program and go on a diet to lose weight, most not all get bored with it after a while. When the Spring/Summer time comes around it is all about dieting  for vanity sake to be able to fit in your old swim suit, without having to buy a larger suit for the summer.  The cycle seems to continue each year.  I wish, once the weight is off it would nice if it stayed off. I can dream.If this makes the human race happy then so be it.  I got lucky and my swim shorts still fit this year.Cheers
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Going Green with everyday cleaning
2008-06-09 13:05:00
For awhile the vacuum cleaner industry has been working on helping us with our allergies and filter out dust and dirt particles that we do not need to breath while we vacuum. That thing called a hepa filter has helped out my families allergy issues allot.HEPA filters can remove 99 percent of airborne particles.  These micro particles are only about  0.3 micrometers (µm) in diameter. The air space between HEPA filter's fibers are much greater than 0.3 ?m. The filters are designed to catch these small or larger size particles.The vacuum industry is moving to all HEPA filters on their products. One of the industry's leading going green products are the Miele vacuums cleaners. Miele has set the standard with excellent hepa filters in a sealed body so no allergens can escape, the fiber bags are large high efficiency bags  with easy swivel action and most important noise reduction.We have been Going Green with our vacuuming for years and did not know it.Cheers
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Is a model career for you? So you Want to Model
2008-06-08 23:32:00
Think you have what it takes to be a Model , have you ever one a beauty contest or nicest looking in your school It would nice to travel all over the world and  have pictures taken of you in the most expensive  clothes and getting paid to do it. Is there a  better job on the planet.The folks at http://www.lookoftheyear.com are looking for you, to be the model next Look of the Year model. Look of the Year is dedicated to finding the Next Look of the Year model. This new  life you would have will be working/modeling in New York, Paris or even Milan with other beautiful young people like you.Sign-up and win $10,000USD or get yourself spotted by the top model agencies on your way to that model career.
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WiMax moving forward
2008-06-08 04:04:00
Cisco Systems will join Clearwire, Sprint Nextel, and three WiMax equipment providers on to announce an initiative aimed at simulating WiMax innovation through the sharing of WiMax patents.  This is going to make WiMax the next big thing in the wireless business.  The other members of the group include Alcatel-Lucent, Intel Corp. and Samsung.  This is part of the Sprint/Clearwire announcement that they were starting a $14.5 billion WiMax joint project that includes investments by Intel, Google and cable providers to fund a nationwide build-out of a WiMax network. I cannot wait to get my hands on the WiMax service.Cheers
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Amazon's crash and burn
2008-06-08 03:40:00
Yesterday, the website of Amazon.com was shut down for at least two hours.Here is the info that Amazon stated about the down website."As a part of this resolution, some customers may experience error messages that indicate that their access to the Amazon Web site has been blocked for various reasons. These reasons may not be directly related to the customer's account. Access to the Web site will return when this technical issue is resolved."This brings back the statement a few weeks ago from AT&T stating that the internet is going to go dark very soon. The second of the major outages the last weeks. Could this be the beginning of the end.Only time will tell.CheersCovering the latest cutting edge of Technology, Business, Internet trends,  Marketing, and Entertainment along with the latest News of the day and I will try to entertain with wit and wisdom along the way. Ok, Ok, maybe more wisdom that wit.  :)Throw in some SEO and Search Engine Marketing tips(Note: Thank yo...
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Is it time for new iPhones
2008-06-08 03:10:00
On AT&T's Web site that carries a large section that is devoted to the iPhone , now displays an "Out of Stock" message beside both the 8GB and 16GB units. Does this mean that Apple is running out of iPhones or is there a new iPhone coming. But the AT&T retail stores are that they have iPhones in stock while there are some know stores out of stock                                                                                                Shortages have been interpreted by analysts as an indicator that Apple will launch one or more new iPhones soon, and perhaps begin selling them as early as next week. Apple will open it...
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Radio Disney Concert Series Free
2008-06-07 23:41:00
The weather is gotten real hot in the 90's all week, going to be a toasty June. Now that school is getting out there will be some free time for vacation.  If you want to save a little  money you might want to check out the Radio Disney Concert Series in the city of Wildwood in New Jersey. Radio Disney Summer Concert Series will be one of this years Wildwood events that will held at Morey?s Piers in the month of July, Guess what the concerts are FREE and lots of the Top Radio Disney artists will be on hand. My northern cousins tell me that Morey?s Piers is a great place for a ?New Jersey Vacation?, and coming up that have a ?Things to do in New Jersey? list for us to do. The Radio Disney Summer Concert Series starts on July 7 and will have several concerts until the finale is scheduled for 2 pm Saturday, July 26, 2008 at the Wildwoods Convention Center Oceanfront Arena with Raven-Symone from Disney Channel?s ?That?s so Raven?.July 7th, 14th and 21st  will be ...
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Protecting Identity in Masses
2008-06-07 22:16:00
The more I read on Identity protection, the more I find that Identity protection programs are being joined by orginizations in masses across the country. I just read the release "LifeLock Partners With Tennessee Dental Association Providing Industry Leading Identity Theft Protection", the Tennessee Dental Association has decided to offer it's 2,350 members the lifelock identity theft protection service immediately. The folks at LifeLock are offering the nation?s first and only ID theft protection service and backs it up it's members with a $1 million identity theft guarantee.LifeLock members have available LifeLock?s WalletLock? service, WalletLock will works to cancel and replace all of your documents and personal identity information papers that are inside a wallet if it gets lost or stolen. With LifeLock's growth they are also looking for good people to join their great team for a LifeLock career.Cheers
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The Spark is alive
2008-06-06 23:46:00
Now there is another great piece of news, for all of us bloggers, that is sure to be delight us that like to interact with other bloggers and like to make some money with our blog. The SocialSpark social website is now Live or what I call Alive .  SocialSpark comes from the folks over at PayPerPost (PPP), they have created this more interactive version of the very popular PPP site where us bloggers create profiles, meet other bloggers and advertisers building a more social interaction between posters that take opportunities of advertisers.SocialSpark.com comes alive with their platform for bloggers and advertisers, advertisers and publishers that have actual profiles and become more human and not just two strangers doing a bit of business marketing on the internet. IZEA's new site is completely different from PPP,  SocialSpark enables you take part in communities for interaction between bloggers of like interests and a market place to find the blogging opportunities that a...
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Saving time with self inking stamps
2008-06-06 23:26:00
Just after the Second World War, the first self inking stamps were made of steel and were rather heavy and bulky, at the time this was state of the art, self inking stamps became popular because when using self inking stamps you avoided the separate ink pad. You also got constant quality impression and the ink pad are easy to replace. Self inking stamps also have the advantage that you can continue stamping again and again and keep the quality on each impression.Fast forward to current time, now there is a wide range of self inking stamps available made of steel, a combination of steel and plastic or plastic only.  The self inking stamps are produced using the most modern materials and are light weight heavy duty self inking stamps. We use several for stamping business checks.I get several of my forms custom printed. If you need custom printing services for address labels, checks, cheap postcards, business cards, self inking stamps, business card magnets and stamps, the folks a...
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There is a need for GMAIL owner search
2008-06-06 22:38:00
Searching everywhereLately I have been getting requests for blog posts from folks using a gmail account. You cannot find out who owns a Gmail account, there are no Gmail directories to search like Yahoo or the old AOL. There are a number of different email search providers on the internet, but their information usually only provides the person's address and phone number, not email. As a general rule, any website that asks for money to find email addresses is probably a scam, or will provide you with outdated email addresses at best.  Gmail is Google 's free mail service, I like the mass storage, up to 9GB now. Gmail takes the features of Google's search engine and builds the SE into the email, so you can do searches on the web and through your emails. Gmail has some very good security. Is there a way to find out who owns a gmail account?  NO NO. That is not the answer I want to here. Today is the age of stolen computers with your personal information on it and mass avenu...
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Optics for star gazing and play
2008-06-05 23:24:00
A few years back we moved to an area away from the city lights, this one purpose less hustle and bushel of the city. The one perk is that you see more of the night sky, meaning stars, more stars and lots of shooting stars, whatever they are.  Telescopes and binoculars have become our mainstay at viewing the night time sky and its activity. I have been wanting to invest in a night vision scope to explore the night sky. Some of the best optical items I have searched for was from the folks at OpticsPlanet. They carry a large selection of rifle scopes, nigth vision, telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, angefinders, Laser Sights, flashlights, tripods, radar guns, and digital camera binoculars. Some very brand name optics, hobbyist gear and tactical gear viewing devices that you can get. I have wondered where the folks got the laser sites to bounce off movie screens.  I would rather use Optics for star watching.Cheers
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Sign Language on your cell phone
2008-06-05 00:20:00
Technology has gone over the top with this one. There now is a video-based Sign Language interpretation service that will be delivered over the Internet or your cellular networks for applications such as two-way videoconferencing via your cell phones. This is some very cool stuff. One of the key benefits of the service is to alert individuals of emergency situations, like bad thunder storms, hurricanes, or chance of flooding. The emergency call is placed to your cell phone, that is set to vibrate, indicating the knowledge of the user that an incoming e-mail, the e-mail will  contain a video message delivered in sign language.Now this is what I am talking about cutting edge of technology. Very Cool.CheersCovering the latest cutting edge of Technology, Business, Internet trends,  Marketing, and Entertainment along with the latest News of the day and I will try to entertain with wit and wisdom along the way. Ok, Ok, maybe more wisdom that wit.  :)Throw in some SEO and Se...
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Are Mailing Lists Dead?
2008-06-05 00:16:00
B2B Marketing Marketing is marketing is market, so the marketing folks tell you. The old fashion way was by mail or in person. To the get the most exposure you would use the snail mail with fliers to seen the word out to current and potential customers. I still use the snail mail for about 90 percent of price changes, sales and new product announcements. Over the year we have built-up a business mailing lists, this list is the bread and butter of marketing, current buyers and old that have not bought in a while. The potential customer are in a separate business list for special mailing, phone call or a face to face visit.The US mail is still a good marketing medium in comparison to email marketing, but a lot more expensive. What do you want, real cheap and never know if they get the marketing flier or send the flier by mail, and you might get lucking it gets to the correct party.What do you think?Cheers
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How India's population benefits from US-IT companies
2008-06-05 00:06:00
Now that a large amount of the large corporate IT firms using IT services firms that are out-sourcing offshore in the country of India. The populations of India are having their lives improved with the development of 911 like emergency response systems. In addition to benefiting IT services firms, the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in India is enabling efforts to improve lives in that country in ways that residents of Western nations take for granted, such as the development of 911-like emergency response systems. Over 130 million people in India now have access to automated emergency call center services developed by the Emergency Management and Research Institute, an offshoot of IT.India has a three-digit number(108) that puts callers in touch with a dispatcher that works 24/7. The dispatch center will automatically notify police, fire and medical authorities of emergencies. They send out a EMRI-operated ambulances equipped with GPS locator's and videoconferencing links tha...
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The Russians are Coming
2008-06-04 22:41:00
The Russians are coming,  the Russians are coming, females that isA lot of American claims their mother land is from Europe. For the last two hundred and thirty-plus years we have been at odds in a love/hate with European countries. It is kinda like a marriage, love and hate are just different emotions, indifference is when you have a problem. Some European women believe that marriage is their main priority from an early age. The Russian women strive to create a family first and after the family is stable do they think about building a career. The folks at Lovers Planet are helping men find a russian brides for marriage, serious, they work to build a relationship with the perspective mate before they choose to come to America for marriage.Instead of mail order, now it is internet.  Peace, Love and Tenderness.Cheers
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The Sky is falling
2008-06-03 00:16:00
AT&T said a month or so ago that the internet is going halt or to die, about the year 2010 or was it 2012, not 2012 is when the world is coming to an end.  Anyway there was a big internet server provider that had its servers go down for 2 days this weekend. I know if affected the DP forums site, not sure who else. This outfit had thousands of servers with hundreds of thousands of customers that went down because of a power/electrical problem not a power outage but the electrical wiring of the building.  They are right the sky could fall or blow.What do you think?CheersCovering the latest cutting edge of Technology, Business, Internet trends,  Marketing, and Entertainment along with the latest News of the day and I will try to entertain with wit and wisdom along the way. Ok, Ok, maybe more wisdom that wit.  :)Throw in some SEO and Search Engine Marketing tips(Note: Thank you for reading.  Keep in Touch.  Comment if you like. I can use your input and ...

Online Auto Loans
2008-06-02 23:55:00
We as consumers have moved on from going to a dealer, shopping for a car, driving to the next car dealer test driving a car and so-forth until we pick the one we like and then try to get the car dealers to give you the lowest price on a car. The current way is shopping on the internet, viewing specs, accessories and colors of your favorite choice of vehicle. The net has made viewership and comparision of vehicles is the norm.The purchasing part of the auto can be handled by a Nationwide Auto Loans service from Apex, Apex's auto financing specialists can get you online auto loan approvals and help provide a Bad Credit Auto Loan to consumers with poor credit. 
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Save fuel with online purchase
2008-06-02 21:20:00
The next time you want to buy something start thinking of the fuel cost that have to fork out when traveling to point-of-purchase location.The folks at Paypal are not stating that extra high shipping fees are the #1 reason that consumers abandon the online purchase. Yes that is some thing that makes me made on eBay is when I am going to get a good deal on an auction, you find the shipping cost is high. Ebay has reduced this a great deal putting the law down that you have shipping fees at a reasonable amount. I know before this was done that you have to read the fine print to find that you purchase an item for a dollar, but there was a $95 dollar shipping and handling fee. Bogus.It has gotten a lot better.  More paypal info. 43% of consumers did not pay for items in their shopping carts because shipping charges were too high.More Paypal stats.36% of shoppers abandoned their purchases because they felt the overall cost was higher than anticipated.27% did not pay for items because...
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Birthdays and Costumes go together
2008-06-02 20:24:00
Party timeThis is the time of year for birthday parties for several family members.  A few are children. I think we could have a Stars Wars Costumes party and kids could dress as their favorite Star Wars character, wonder how many Dark Vader Kids Costumes we would have. Maybe we will have some Obi Wans, Storm Troopers, wookies or a queen Amidala. I think dressing, or having the children dress up for a party would be fun.Cheers
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New iMacs
2008-05-29 16:56:00
Apple is offering some cool new iMacs, two are 20-inch models and two are 24-inch models. The new iMac starts with the Intel 45nm Penryn Core 2 Duo processor, sweet, that offers the larger L2 caches and with a greater energy efficiency than other iMacs. It is all about moving toward going green. The  iMacs also now have the 6MB of shared Level-2 cache and with a faster 1066MHz front-side bus. These new iMacs should scream.iMacs 24-inch model will offer the bright LCD screen with a large resolution of 1920-by-1200 pixels.  Fun to watch your favorite DVD when not searching the internet.CheersCovering the latest cutting edge of Technology, Business, Internet trends,  Marketing, and Entertainment along with the latest News of the day and I will try to entertain with wit and wisdom along the way. Ok, Ok, maybe more wisdom that wit.  :)Throw in some SEO and Search Engine Marketing tips(Note: Thank you for reading.  Keep in Touch.  Comment if you like. I can u...
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