Archive for 'Techcrunch'

The Universal Network Cable is the ULTIMATE Network Admin Tool!

So this is probably the coolest most useful thing I’ve seen at ThinkGeek lately. If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking for the right kind of network cable to connect a switch, hub, firewall, ip camera, computer, whatever to your network. Sometimes you need a straight thru cable, sometimes you need a cross over and [...]

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The buzz about Buzz

I realize I’m about a week behind the curve with this post about buzz, but I wanted a little time to get to know the newest of the big G’s “enhancements” before I wrote about it. Google Buzz (not to be confused with BuzzD) aims to be a sort of Facebook/Picasa/Flickr/Twitter/Gmail mashup in one (what [...]

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Recording Sound in Audacity on Vista/Windows 7

One of the problems I faced earlier this summer was how do I record a concert that was being broadcast online using my computer with out having to go out to an external recording device or back in to my microphone jack so the sound quality was good. I did some research and found that [...]

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The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good

Its a sad day today, after a drawn out courtbattle and years of supplying the world with warez, movies and more the Pirate Bay has officially shut off the tracker. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely [...]

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GoogleWave a second Opinion

So back in October I posted about my first impressions with google wave. I mentioned in there I was a little depressed by the number of people I had available to converse with, however, that seems to be changing as now I’m on my second round of invites to hand out. Once the first group [...]

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First Impressions of Google Wave

So it finally happened. I stumbled across someone on twitter who was looking to give out some wave invites he had and I actually managed to score one. Less then 24 hours after he said it was sent I received it (Someone else had told me they sent me one, and I’m still waiting to [...]

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5 twitter tools to make life more fun?

One of the cool things about having an open API like Twitter’s (and somewhat facebooks) is that you get a ton of cool and useful apps (websites) that can help you do everything from manage followers to search better to Assassinate Unhinged Industrialists. One of the bad things about having an open API like Twitter’s [...]

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SugarSync Redux

So somewhere around two weeks ago, I talked about SugarSync. I was pretty impressed with it and the ability to share documents between my desktop, laptop and blackberry with ease. Today, I’m still impressed (enough so that I’m on the 4.99 a month plan) and I’d highly recommend EVERY sysadmin adding this to their arsenal [...]

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Sync it with Sugar!

I was looking for a good way to get some documents and photos on my Blackberry with out having to use up the precious memory card space I’m saving for Slacker Cache files and videos, mp3s and other stuff I must have at all times on my Phone. That’s when I came across, SugarSync. SugarSync [...]

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5 Good Twitter Tools

Yar, I’ve been using Twitter for a while now and I’ve finally developed a list of five of my current favorite tools for twitter. I thought I’d share them with you. Twhirl is perhaps my favorite desktop app for twitter. Its cool because its done in AdobeAIR and can run on Mac, Linux and Windows [...]

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