This morning I went through my email and saw an email from ReviewMe saying that they added a new section called campaigns that you can write on a campaign and get paid a little. Well more out of curiosity then actual need I decided to see what Reviews they had available.
First was some sandle [...]
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I got a package Wednesday in my drop box, and since I hadn’t ordered anything I was sorta surprised. Upon opening I found I had gotten a book and a 2 sheet write up about the book from Soap Net, The Soap Opera network. Now I love to read, and I’m not to [...]
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Google Pack makes it easy to setup and protect your PC, and now we’ve added two new applications to make your PC even safer: Symantec’s Norton Security Scan, which detects and removes viruses, and PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, a top-rated anti-spyware utility. Both are free and include automatic protection updates with no paid [...]
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Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek has created these Vista error message stickers (”Error: The Operation Completed Successfully”) that are the right size to stick over the Vista screens in bus-shelter ads and the like. Link
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After fighting Vista for the last couple weeks, I’ve come to really appreciate this artists [...]
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I’ve been trying to keep up to date what books I’ve read and so forth, but I realized I hadn’t been writing reviews. So I quickly went through and wrote some short reviews on the books. Feel free to let me know if you read one and wanted me to expand upon my thoughts. Since [...]
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of [...]
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The VW Vortex website got to drive the 2008 Audi R8… and even though I’m only a partial Audi fan (I have to admit they make sexy looking cars) This new car is drool worthy.
Here are only a couple pictures and a video, but go and read the full review and see a LOT more [...]
[...] The Coonawarra was one of my first good bottles of Australian wine. And I wanted us to do it by the book. Well, since I have yet to take a class, or really read a book about wine drinking I first smelled the cork. I usually can tell a lot about the wine from [...]
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Here, from a page about Windows Vista at Dell’s site, is a shockingly honest explanation of just how meaningless the “Windows Vista Capable” sticker on some PCs is:
Yes, folks, that does say that a PC that meets the conditions to be marketed as Windows Vista Capable may be a swell Vista system…as long as you [...]
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When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you’re using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you’ve probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives. Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 [...]
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