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America’s Aural Heritage at risk

While U. S. lawmakers wrestle with issues such as health care reform, the economy and two wars, they are also tackling the problems caused by the lack of a national copyright law to protect pre-1972 recordings.

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Checklist for Year-End

organizing personal and small business finance all year round makes year-end tax prep a lot less anxiety-inducing – income and expenses, categorizing transactions, and monitoring budgets and savings, and your life at tax time

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Net Neutrality Decade

Is a pay-for-bytes consumed internet in our future? 99.9% think ‘Net Neutrality’ issues have gone away. Wrong. Rest assured, the issues and debates are going to get ugly — and who ends up on the receiving end may be you.

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Missing deadlines?

Avoiding the 4 biggest management blunders: Never miss a deadline again.

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Apple Tablet: Truth or Rumor?

The news channels have ramped up again with a number of mentions of an impending Apple Mac tablet based computer. It’s what I’ve dreamed about for some years, and it would seem, we’re getting closer!

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Deal or No Deal?

As the shopping season gears up, we’re being flooded with “deals” — particularly for ‘Black Friday.’ While there are a few killer deals for consumer electronics products there are a lot more not-so-great deals. Buyer beware!

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True Lies: ATT vs Verizon

You may have read my post about iPhone vs. Droid, and I mentioned some of the false advertising ploys being lobbed back and forth between the big three. In the battle between ATT and Verizon it’s difficult to know when one or the other is telling a lie. But they’re all the same! Continue reading »

Be a Balloon Boy

From the “now I’ve seen everything” department comes this weekend’s news of an actual “Balloon Boy” app for the iPhone — Want to create your very own “balloon boy” hoax? There’s an app for that! Continue reading »

Droid vs. iPhone?

The IPHONE vs.EVERYONE ELSE debate is heating and the Verizon vs. AT&T clash has reached a fevered pitch as even we are trying to decide what to do. I wouldn’t touch the Droid with a ten-foot pole, and here’s why. Continue reading »

Windows 7

I saw Windows 7 today as part of a presentation over lunch at my full time job. It has several features that look nice and a few that look familiar.

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iMac now is the “Mac to have”

That is a quote from Computer World. They start out saying:

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Let me Google that for you

One of my pet peeves is having someone send me an email about some thing that at least to me is an obvious urban legend. Of course some of my friend actually send it to me expecting me to do the Snopes search. Continue reading »

IMHO – Social Networking

What is your group doing to take advantage of the social networking. In August, at Cowtown MUG we had a member talk about using Twitter and Facebook. The talk was primarily about using them for the job hunt, but perhaps we need to use them for user groups as well. Continue reading »

IMHO: Mac Rumors

I have thought that MacRumors.com in many ways has been doing what I wanted to do with the original “Rumor Manager” column. But… Continue reading »

Stumble Upon!!

Wow!!! I usually depend on Stumble Upon to find 3 or 4 of these articles a month. Since the Apple world is my primary concern, I usually keep the MacOSX listed cleared out. I usually get less than 30 to look at from this listing. Continue reading »