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Friday, November 28, 2008

According to a CBC story Bob Dylan turned up at Neil Young's teenage home in Winnipeg, earlier this month. Check out the story and think of the fun it would be if Young had been there too and an impromptu concert occurred!

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

For Firefox users there is a really neat tool available. SPLIT BROWSER is a Firefox add-on -- It splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It can help you, for example, to compare multiple webpages, or to have a calendar always present. Check out SPLIT BROWSER.

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share James Blunt
"Tears and Rain (Live)"

or you can try here too!

James Blunt is in town at the Air Canada Centre, in Toronto, this week. To celebrate I'm sharing one of the tracks from his album called "Back To Bedlam". Here is the song called "Tears and Rain". I hope you enjoy it.
Check out Wikipedia for more info.

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Ever wonder how iPod, BlackBerry and Twitter got their names? Author Tom Wailgum goes inside the process of creating tech product names that are cool but not exclusionary, marketable, and most of all, free of copyright and trademark gotchas. Here's the scoop on ten iconic tech products and how they got their monikers, plus a chat with the man responsible for naming Azure, BlackBerry, and more. (What's the one he wishes he'd named but didn't? Google.)" Read it here at CIO magazine.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

COMODO FIREWALL PRO offers complete protection from Hackers, Spyware, Trojans and Identity theft. Host Intrusion Prevention System stops malware from being installed. Clean PC Mode registers your current applications then will allow only applications that you approve to be installed on your computer. Malware Scan Feature checks your computer for viruses, spyware and trojans before you install Comodo Firewall Pro. Free Download. All this with no charges or license fees ever. It's FREE! CHECK IT OUT!

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share Cold War Kids
"Against Privacy"

or you can try here too!

Cold War Kids are an indie band from California. They recently issued a new album called "Loyalty To Loyalty". I'm growing to like this group and I'm sharing my favorite, and the lead track, from the album called "Against Privacy". I hope you enjoy it too.
Check out Wikipedia for more info.

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Friday, November 14, 2008

It's National Teddy Bear Day in America!

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

TEXTTRIMMER is worth a look if you ever have to work with text in windows. It is a great tool for editing large chunks of repetitive or partially repetitive text, long lists, etc. TextTrimmer can help you in manipulating data a in difficult block text and mass text operations. All the details are HERE!

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Here's something really different. Esau Mwamwaya is a bit unusual. He is a drummer and singer originally from Malawi, Africa, who emigrated to London and until recently, ran a second-hand furniture store there. That store happened to be near the studio of a couple of DJs who call themselves Radioclit. After they happened to visit Esau's store, they got to talking and working together. Two years later their mixtape "The Very Best" is a sensation. You can this week download the whole mixtape here! An album is finished and due in 2009, and a mixtape/bootleg album is being released on Green Owl Records November 1, but right now you can still get the free web only release from Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit.

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Friday, November 07, 2008

Here's a cartoon from last month's Speed Bump. After the financial markets yo-yo over the last little while, I'm not sure I find this funny. How about you?

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Use PHLOX while a file is selected and the file name will be selected but not the extension, making it possible to type in a new name without over-writing the extension. Thanks to Freeware Genius. This is a neat app that works with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. You can download it here!

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Monday, November 03, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share Feist
"I Feel It All"

or you can try here too!

Feist will be at the Air Canada Centre, in Toronto, tonight along with Hayden. To celebrate I'm sharing one of the tracks from her 2007 album called "The Reminder". Here is the song called "I Feel It All". I hope you enjoy it.
Check out Wikipedia for more info.

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