100 things we didn't know this time last year

You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days.

Amazing when you think about it. Most of this stuff will be/is commonplace and we will take it for granted.



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7 of the top 10 Podcasts on Podnova are by former TechTV stars

With Leo Laporte, Alex Albrecht, Kevin Rose, Amber MacArthur, Chris Pirillo, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, David Prager, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, and more. These kind of ratings are crazy. How did TechTV ever go off the air?

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Want to try Windows Live Messenger? Look on EBay.

Microsoft is now auctioning invitations to the Windows Live Messenger Beta. Is Microsoft really hurting so bad for cash that it needs to auction off invitations to a beta? That's getting pretty desperate.

Also check out SGB for a little more insight into it.

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Tutorial to make a Complete Design

Yet another Photoshop web design tutorial. Always a good read. Now if only I could find the time to do a few...

Make a really clean sharp web design with Photoshop. This covers all the steps and you don't need any experience to do this (it'll walk you through all the steps).

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Design a Complete Web Page Plus Code In Photoshop

This is a Photoshop tutorial that will take you through the basic concepts behind designing a web page in Photoshop like a pro. It includes the original file for download, plus standards compliant code that you can substitute your own images into for a complete working web site.

I've been looking for a decent tutorial for this.

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Laser board game: A geekier chess

In this game, you may move one of your pieces one square or rotate one 90 degrees before firing your laser to see if one of your opponent's (or one of your) pieces will be removed. A high-tech re-imagining of chess.

(via Digg as Seen on Boing Boing)

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New Animal Discovered

I'm amazed by the fact that even with all the exploration that we have done that we still find new species. And not just new species of insects or microbes but a fairly large animal.


In the dense central forests of Borneo, a conservation group has found what appears to be a new species of mammal. WWF caught two images of the animal, which is bigger than a domestic cat, dark red, and has a long muscular tail.

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Digg Sponsor GoDaddy.com Suffers Outage

GoDaddy.com was hit with a denial-of-service attack Wednesday morning, prompting 600,000 of its customers' hosted Web sites to go dark for roughly an hour.

I host thatedeguy.com through GoDaddy and haven't had a problem. I also don't have any extremely important business conducted on that site. If I did... I would be a little unhappy.

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Bloggerbusiness.com is a SHAM!!!

Take a very close look at picture #2 and Picture #4. The first lady lives in Wichita, Kansas and the guy lives in Oakland California(his new blogging office) Take a look at the Picture on the wall, the color on the wall, the lamp on the desk, the color of the chairs to the left of the man, etc...
The pictures were taken in the same office and are yet over 1000 miles away?

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Condor: Building a Linux cluster on a budget

So you need a lot of computing power but don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a commercial cluster? Or maybe you just have a lot of machines sitting idle that you would like to put to good use? You can build a powerful and scalable Linux cluster using only free software and off-the-shelf components. Here's how.

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Gates sees the future in 3D

Bill Gates should be just about any businessman's hero and on his 50th Birthday, Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and multibillionaire, let his guard down and loosely spoke about his vision of the future. And when Gates announces his vision of the future, everyone should take notice, because with money, control, and a company like his, the future will be whatever the man wills it to be.

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Age of Empires 3 Full Review AoE3 Review!!!

Official SGBTech Review of AoE3

"we have spent many hours huddled over our keyboards “testing” AOE3. Here’s what we came up with."

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Sony sued by State of California over DRM Root Kit

It seems that the Sony "Root Kit" violates several California laws. If this goes through, they may not be able to sell these CD's in California at all. Serves them right...

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Wireless 802.11g phone!

This could be very exciting as Wireless access becomes more and more accessible.

"A new Linksys Wireless-G IP phone WIP300 has appeared to the public on the FCC pages. It will allow you to make phone calls using your braodband connection whether your at home, in the office or a public hotspot."

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Start your own GeekSquad

Pretty good article here...

Put GeekSquad out of business. Here are some helpful tips on how you can set up a remote support website to make extra money fixing people's computer problems using One Click VNC servers.

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The FBI's Secret Scrutiny

This is why we need to watch this so called patriot act a little more closely than we have...

"The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said."

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Tech Bloggers Discuss Amazon's Mechanical Turk

A roundup of bloggers' views on Amazon's new service. An interesting service that has garnered quite a bit of attention and some very different views.

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Bill Gates on Firefox, Google. Calls Creative Commons "Communism"

Mr. Gates speaks on Many things including Firefox, Google, Creative Commons. The man is still a genius and I can't help but be fascinated by most anything that the man says.



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Thatedeguy.blogspot.com returns

My blogging started here at thatedeguy.blogspot.com. It lasted about 1 month and then I bought the main domain and hosting and off I went. I basically abandoned this blog with nothing more than a forward message to http://www.thatedeguy.com.

What to look for here in the future:

1. I still use http://www.thatedeguy.com as my main blog site, so don't expect a whole lot of content.
2. Mostly infrequent updates with future expansion and usage only if I get a lot more free time

So... the idea is that this is mostly a placeholder until I find a better usage for it.