How much data do you consume a day?

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/12/11 08:06 Posted in Backup, Cool!, Data  |  Comments (0)

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A recent UCSD study posted on Engadget indicates that most American’s consume 34 gigs of data. The study converts all of the data streams (tv, radio, cell phone, etc.) to a broadband measurement to estitmate your usage.

Now the question is, how do you back all of that up?

Market share of internet surfing phones

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/11/23 16:40 Posted in iPhone  |  Comments (0)

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Gizmodo is reporting that iPhone users make up more than 50% of the internet surfing (from mobile phones only).

The presentation from this weeks technology lunch & learn

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/11/15 18:18 Posted in Uncategorized  |  Comments (0)

Can be found here .

Items that were featured:

    How to earn a 207% IRR by going paperless.
    The benefits of using a netbook
    circitcity-netbooks Circuit City is offering a number of good deals on netbooks and Gizmodo has a advanced copy of Office Depot’s Black Friday advertisement offering the Acer netbook for $199

    We also covered Livescribe’s Pulse Smart Pen and how I use this fabulous tool for homework review for my students.

Happy 40th birthday Internet

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/10/30 14:29 Posted in Cool!, Why Not?  |  Comments (0)

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Gizmodo has more - here.

Windows 7 upgrade guide

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/10/27 06:29 Posted in Windows  |  Comments (0)

I installed the retail version of Windows Home Premium on my Sony TZ laptop over the weekend. As it had been about 2.5 years since vista was installed on the machine, I decided it was high time to reformat the solid state drive and start over with program installs (Vista’s girth had swelled to consume my 32 gig ssd drive, but fortunately I still had my 500 gig data drive (both are internal)).

The Windows 7 install was smooth, eash and reasonably fast. The followup install of my software was without bumps except for Adobe Acrobat PDF which refused to authorize my install (I forgot to deauthorize the previous install before I formatted) - shame on Adobe for no ability to call in a serial # (like Microsoft does).

The machine has 15 gigs free on a 32 gig drive, and boots fast, and runs like a dream - the new features for window placement are a dream, and I finally think Microsoft has served the mobile user (the Windows Key - P for project/powerpoint settings is a major coup!)

Additional features an an upgrade guide can be found here at Maximum PC.

The good guys at Gizmodo just updated a be all to end all overview of Windows 7 - click here.

Tips & Tricks for the new Windows 7

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/10/25 19:08 Posted in Windows  |  Comments (0)

Although I’ve had a few months to use the Windows 7 beta, I only recently have started to discover all of the shortcuts it offers for organizing your desktop.

Tim Sneath has a great article on those tips here.

Latest News on Windows 7

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/09/12 07:03 Posted in Windows  |  Comments (0)

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wi-fi in flight - thanks American Airlines

By admin  |  2009/08/26 09:34 Posted in Uncategorized  |  Comments (0)

I tried out the onboard wi-fi service offered by American Airlines today Gogo - and I have to admit, its worth the $9.95 to be able to check emails/research on the internet for my almost 3 hour flight to Chicago.

Speed test results below
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8 bit trip, a tribute to the games that have gone before us

By admin  |  2009/08/24 10:09 Posted in Cool!  |  Comments (0)

Thanks to Gizmodo.com for the headsup.

You have to love the blatancy of this craigslist posting…

By Todd Clarke  |  2009/08/18 19:20 Posted in Uncategorized  |  Comments (0)

160G iPod Classic Black (Constitution & Louisana)

Date: 2009-08-17, 9:59AM MDT
Reply to: sale-3vwmd-1327603083@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

To the asshole who stole my iPod, thanks for taking 10 years of my photos and home videos. That iPod was my only back-up of those items after someone stole my truck in January with my laptop.
Maybe you can use my resume (in the documents portion of the HDD or did you not even know it was partitioned) to get a fucking job, because obviously you need a job with nothing better to do with your time then to take from those of us that work our ass off to have what we have.
There is no excuse for what you have done, I came from a broken home in a less-than-affluent upbringing. I worked for everything I have and have not had things come easy. So on the off chance that you try to sell this here
on Craigslist, probably posting it on here with the laptop stolen from me previously, just give me the opportunity to copy my personal photos and videos, I’ll even give the cords to the iPod and any accessories I have.

  • Location: Constitution & Louisana
  • it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests