Finding and Reviewing Products so you do not have too

06Dec Google Public DNS


One day my Comcast Internet service was down actually it was there DNS servers. So I looked for some other DNS servers and I found….

Google Public DNS
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

Google offers a public DNS server that claim to increase browsing speed and security. All I know is that they work

I put the address into my router and bingo I was up.  I seem to trust Googles serves  compared to  other free DNS I found. The this is what type of information are they collecting for us Now..

Pete the Geek

09Apr Professor Messer


Professor Messer
has a free set of training videos for the A+ certification
Video are well done and has lots of good info.
Link to Professor Messer Free A+ training

02Feb Ram Booster


Ram Booster is a small utility that helps free up ram.

This is working well on my test system and the only thing it increases the CPU usage

RamBooster 2.0 msi-packag

http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/download.htm

What is Rambooster and how to use it

First Look at RamBooster

04Nov Build a website fast with Drupal



Drupal is a open source content management system for your web site it is a power full framework that many plug in’s the community is fantastic . This cut my web development time down. try it http://drupal.org/

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13Sep Magento Shopping cart


http://www.conversioncounts.com/blog/e-commerce/magento-ecommerce-seo-review/Magento Shopping cart has many features and a nice interface.  The down fall is  it is a hog. Do not try to run this on a shared server. 1and1.com shared hosting can hardly run it. The other this  moving the site restoring a back up is vary difficult. I have not had any luck doing upgrades the sites end up crashing.  When I first used it  I liked it  now with the upgrades the  memory and process hog  I am being forced to switch. 

If you have deadicated server  the go for it.

PD

17Jul API


In computer science, an application programming interface (API) is an interface defining the ways by which an application program may request services from libraries and/or operating systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api

APIs are fun tools that help you get more out of a web site. Using APIs you can integrate other sites functionality into your site or applications. http://www,meetup.com is a cool site where you can find people with similar interests and organize groups. The tool helps you manage organized groups with a calendar, event announcements, member management, etc. Those tools are cool but one function that they do not have is a tool that makes name tags.  I found a site that used the meetup.com API to make member name tags for your events.

http://meetup-api.pddesigninc.com/

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03Jun Microsoft Free Visual Studio Express


Visual BasicVisual C++ Visual Web DeveloperVisual C#
Want to program in Visual Studio but do not have the money to spend?

Then check out

http://www.microsoft.com/express/default.aspx

Work on the .net platform without the investment. I tested and made a little FTP application in the VB and it worked well.

Try it p

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21May http://www.posithon.org/


This is not a standard product review. This is a review of an open source project called POSI.  You can find it at http://www.posithon.org/ This developer and team is creating artificial intelligence for the web and personal management.  This is WEB 3.0… The symantec web

About POSI

Are you interested in finding people to hang out with and work on projects together? What about doing this online? We’re starting an online group for hanging out online and working on projects. The project is called POSI. POSI stands for POSI Open Source Initiative. There are a lot of open source projects that feature collaboration online. But POSI is different. We have programming marathons, but they are competitions.

The other cool thing is the POSI group meets at Pumping Station One http://www.pumpingstationone.org/ a Chicago Hack Lab

Check both of them out. This is the future of the web and other technology.

13Apr Samsung Instinct


See full size imageI just got the Samsung Instinct for the Sprint network. I like this phone very much.
pros
-Nice feed back touch screen
-Nice easy-to-use interface.
-Solid phone… it has some weight to it.

I also got the sprint all-in-one family data plan. This is a must for the phone
The GPS is very fast
If you like, the live tv works well

http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/Instinct.aspx

Con
The only thing that is am looking for is to sync the calender

I am checking on the battery life of the phone

This is worth the money I like it better then the Mogul that I had.

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23Feb Here is a social Media Comic


The Greg Strip - From Infomation Week

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