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When you need a quick, simple screencast, but don't want to bother with installing and configuring software, a new service called ScreenCastle may just be the app you're looking for.
ScreenCastle is an extremely simple screencasting tool. ScreenCastle is so simple to use. Just visit their website,
Image by Looking Glass via Flickr According to researchers at the University of California Berkley (via inhabitat), Atrazine one of the most common used herbicides worldwide, also one of the most common water pollutants in North America, may cause perfectly healthy, normal male frogs to grow up and become fully functional reproducing females.
Posted March 3rd, 2010 by Patrick Curl in category
Technology
Microsoft announces yet another security vulnerability. This one affects Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 users who use Internet Explorer. On some sites a dialogue may pop up asking the user to press F1 (the commonly used help button), this then allows the machine to run code, which may open all kind of nasty vulnerabilities for hackers to use.
This graphic from Pingdom (via Rotorblog), shows how Google was once a lowly start-up in a Yahoo world. Now look at our little Google, all grown up..well a teenager at any rate. It goes to show how a company with a real vision can truly climb to the heights of success, just look how Google has grown since it opened back in 1998. I'm excited
Watching this youtube video, makes me want to sing Peter Griffin's rendition of the Bird is the Word, only slightly modified -- cause you know... The Nerd, the nerd, the nerd is the word, the nerd nerd nerd, nerd is the word... Seriously though, to all you nerds out there in high school, getting teased because of your pocket protectors, just think
Posted January 30th, 2010 by Patrick Curl in category
Technology
Image by Getty Images via Daylife10. I-Tampon (ignored due to possible trademark issues)9. I-vannatablet8. I-amandrethegiantsiphone7. I-condom6. I-Pod Macro (Greek for large, opposite of Nano)5. I-canhascheezeburger (already taken)4. I-buymaccauseidontknowbetter3. I-tookamentalbreakandthisisallwecouldcomeupwith (My 2nd favorite)2.
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I know it seems like yesterday since 2.8 was released and according to Blog Herald they are already releasing their first upgrade. Go ahead and upgrade now while the getting is good. I'm sure the wordpress 2.8.1 update is just some security fixes here and there, but better to be safe than sorry.
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Posted July 9th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Green Tech
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City in Australia recently Banned the sale of Bottle Water.
I'm suggesting we all Ban the Purchase of Bottled water in our own homes. Commit today!
Bottled water is one of the biggest polluters ever created. Each bottle of water not only adds to landfills across the nation but each bottle takes energy to
Posted July 9th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Technology
If bytes were dollars, then a Petabyte would be the equivalent of a Trillion Dollars.
While it's not very conceivable that any of us will ever be Trillionaires - Owning a Petabyte is another story. A PetaByte is the equivalent of 1000 Terabytes(Don't crap in your pants...yet). Now you might not even know what a Terabyte is so I'm going to tell
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Alright I thought I'd jump in on this hot topic: Google Chrome becomes Google Chrome OS.
If Microsoft weren't afraid of Google before, I'm sure they are beginning to take notice now.
The biggest difference between Windows and the Chrome OS that I get being an 'intermediate' geek is that Windows runs