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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
links for 2007-02-01
World Screen – Home (tags: blogidea)
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Nintendo DS
I have made the switch. Today during my lunch break, I went and traded my Sony PSP and all its games for a Nintendo DS Lite Onyx. I did not get the “New Super Mario Bros.” game that I wanted … Continue reading
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Google Office
While Google Office does not exist in name, it does in spirit. Google is hacking away on improving many of its web based applications into fully featured products that will allow anyone on any operating system to be able to work from anywhere they have an internet connection. While several of the items that I consider to be a part of this “Google Office” have been done before by other people, but for some reason Google seems to figure out what is wrong with all the other versions out there and strip out those things while adding new and better features that people will actually use. While it is definitely true that there is nothing new under sun, when people take something already done and do it better, it is always worth our attention. Let us look at some of these Google web applications. Continue reading
links for 2007-01-31
How do you find Readers for Your Blog? – Open Mike (tags: blogging problogger weeklyread) Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD – Lifehacker (tags: lifehacks weeklyread)
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links for 2007-01-30
Lighten Windows’ memory load with open-source apps – Lifehacker (tags: lifehacks weeklyread software windows) Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part II – Album art – Lifehacker (tags: lifehacks tutorials music)
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PayPerPost Debate
I think that somewhere along the line, the blogsphere as a whole decided that to be paid to post about something was unclean and tainted those that did it. Am I the only one that sees being paid to post about certain things as being okay? I mean lets look at PayPerPost’s website, right under the “Bloggers” image, is a line that says “Disclosure Required” as well as the statement “…earn cash for providing your opinion…” which tells me that right off the bat nothing wrong is occurring here.
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