Category: Ideas
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Very interesting article by Anne Cearly in the Union-Tribune on Sunday, June 25, 2006 entitled "Vehicles armored all over: Insecurities, rash of kidnappings turn Tijuana business into a growth industry." I liked the last two paragraphs: Guerrero considers his workers artisans. So much of what makes a car so secure,…
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Edward C. Baig had a review in USAToday.com for 15Jun05 of the new MusicGremlin Gremlin MG-100 that allows subscribers to download audio from MusicGremlin.com via WI-FI connections vice a tethered connection to a personal computer: The unit has 8-GB of storage, 2-inch color LCD, has an FM receiver, and lists…
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QuadPolar #002 … links for you and me: Crosley Radio Specials: radio and turntables with support for CDs and tapes. {Crosley@Amazon} Military artwork by Charles Waterhouse Hack-A-Day notes that Metasploit is now running on the Linksys WRTSL54GS. ‘Tech’ Food Conference (25Jun06 via Wired) Why? I’m looking to move some vinyl…
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Eric Rice had a very interesting closing session at Podcast Academy III hosted by Yahoo! (awesome hosts). My personal take-away summary was: One thing that people do with media is "watch, see, and hear" your "brand." And your brand (blog, personal appearance, audio & video podcasts, etc.) brings "something of…
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I had to deal recently with two new interfaces in dealing with two familiar products. The first one that I liked, was the new EasyCutter that is shipping on Costco food wrap rolls. You just pull out the wrap and move the slider over and your wrap is cut. No…
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Some semi-significant news items worth mentioning for those in the "podcast business" even if you are not in it for money: Down the Avenue has a good analysis on ClickZ’s Heidi Cohen recent column ‘on how to make podcasting work for you.’ The latest quarterly "Podtrac Audience Survey" has been…
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It is either very busy … or hording … or a strange marketing concept to find a low point in tech news and then blast stuff out, but ExtremeTech is reporting that HP recently announced 100+ new products for the home and office marketplace. Let’s see if that was a…
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Sometimes you have a question that a simple search can't find an answer to. There is a growing set of potential solutions that might be helpful if you are willing to devote some resources to getting the answer: Amazon's Mechanical Turk Google Answers (closed) Ask Yahoo (closed)
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I have been very excited about finally getting to blog about beta testing MindManager for the Mac. Today is the day that Mindjet announced the product. One of the best pieces of news, is that this was one of the best beta testing experiences that I’ve had. I rarely had…
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I recently enjoyed the following music from a variety of sources: The Reverse Engineers [podcasters] Brad Sucks’ New Song Demo The Gossip [Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles] Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers [Eric Rice] Another thing that I recently ran into that was interesting was a relatively new site for…
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