Posted in Website Review on May 18th, 2008
Online p2p downloading started with Napster. The upstart that was choked by the music companies. Then came Kazaa, Kazaa-lite, eDonkey, Limewire, and Bittorrent. However after a series of court cases, the RIAA and MPAA have started prosecuting file sharers religiously. While this hasn’t lead to a noticeable drop in filesharing, it has increased the danger [...]
Posted in Website Review on May 15th, 2008
Its my age. Some of you may have been under the mistaken belief that I’m some old, middle aged fogey. But no. I’m not. I’m a second-semester senior. And I’ve got 10 days till graduation, and believe me I’m counting the days. Several of my classes have stopped teaching and I’ve been looking for ways [...]
Posted in Website Review on May 15th, 2008
I’d like to take a look at a website thats similar in scope to mine today, the Frustrated Computer User blog. The site looks at a variety of issues facing computer users and how to deal with them. Recent articles include how to make a secure computer password (hint: random letters and symbols/no dates) and [...]
Posted in Website Review on May 15th, 2008
One of the coders for this website lives in India, another in Chicago. A marketer lives in Berkeley. But I live in Houston. Despite this, we have no realy issues with communication. We use instant messaging, VoIP, phone calls, and more recently Webinars. What is a Webinar? a webinar is essentially an online conference (web+seminar, [...]
Posted in Website Review on May 14th, 2008
A while back, when I was looking to get video’s for my ipod, I found 100s of sites that made huge claims, 1,000,000 movies - or a billion songs. Clearly, these claims are kind of outrageous. But now, unfortunately much to late for me to take advantage of it, I found a site that actually [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 27th, 2008
Do you love playing videogames? Ever wanted to make money doing it? Well, now you can! http://www.cashgamers.net is a site that is dedicated to spreading the word about “skill gaming” sites, where you can compete against other people in popular arcade games and WIN REAL MONEY!
There are lots of people making literally thousands every month [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 24th, 2008
In 2009, the Analog airwaves will no longer be in service. The FCC is requiring that all stations currently broadcasting in an analog format to switch entirel yot digital. The reason for this is because the amount of information that can be broadcast in digital format over a certain wavelength is far more than what [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 24th, 2008
I recently came across a site that chroncicles a journey that almost eerily parallels my own. Its the ongoing blog of two people trying make $100,000 in a year exclusively online. While my goals aren’t quite that ambitious, we have many other things in common. Both PennyWisePCs and their venture are run by two [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 24th, 2008
Call me a pansy, but one of the most terrifying experiences for me is to be at work, on my computer, late at night with all the lights off and Boom! something runs up my leg. Suppressing (okay, maybe letting it out) a girlish scream, I jump two feet in the air as a cockroach [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 22nd, 2008
I’m currently in the process of finding someone to repaint my house, and I’ve had issues finding someone reliable. I don’t want to higher one of the sketchy guys at the corner in the morning who says he can paint my house for less, I want someone who can actually do the job. I recently [...]
