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Mitt Romney Quits Presidential Race

Eric Taylor — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:59:54 +0000

At CPAC, Mitt Romney offers his reason for quitting the presidential race: “Size does matter.”Looks like Utah is going to have to find someone else to vote for

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“Because I love America…” … I quit. LOL

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Bye Bye MySpace

Eric Taylor — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:58:19 +0000

I offically deleted my MySpace account today! Thousands are joining in on the International Delete You MySpace Account day today, and I suggest you join in to. Boy oh boy does it feel good to delete that account.

January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Day

Eric Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:54:13 +0000

Please no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots.

Yup you heard it straight up, Jan. 30 is the day to delete you myspace account. I’m doing it, I’m getting tired of all th spam I have been receiving from the site. Come on, join on in, trust me, there are better places to go!

Cut from re-air! What Fox News doesn’t want you too see.

Eric Taylor — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:28:03 +0000

Watch the Ron Paul response at the South Carolina debate which Fox News cut out during the re-broadcast. Way to stick it to them Dr. Paul!

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UPDATE: Youtube took the video off the site, found it again, and i have a copy just encase they remove this one too.

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The problem with mainstream news media today

Eric Taylor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:07:16 +0000

Does any more really need to be said?

Judge: Americans can’t be forced to divulge crypto passwords

Eric Taylor — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:57:00 +0000

A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors.

I said it once, I’ll say it again.

Eric Taylor — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:05:13 +0000

About a year ago, before Apple released their new Intel macs, I made guess that windows and mac would become closer then ever, and that windows based apps, would be available for mac users, mainly “games”. I have stuck by it, and as the year has roled around, I figured I was right the whole time. Apple since that post has moved to Intel chips, released bootcamp, and now the talk about “Cider”. “Cider” is a

“…portability engine for Intel-based Macs, offering game developers and publishers the ability to deploy Windows-based games on new Macs quickly and easily, without the need for traditional arduous porting.”

It looks like I was right. Things are starting to slowly merge and close the gap. Don’t get me wrong though, Windows and Mac with never be the same.

So now for another prediction! With all the talk about next week and Apple’s WWDC 2006, I’m going to make my predictions as to what Apple will unleash.

1) Power Mac will be replaced by a new Intel Xeon Processor, and a availble Intel Core Duo processor.

2) Mac OS X 10.5 (of course) but here are the features im guess at will be added.

a) tabbed browsing inside Finder.

b) new iChat features (possible to sync to iPod)

3) New…..er MacBook and MacBook Pro.

I’m betting some updates to some of things they have been having issues with, and maybe a new processor.

4) New iPod!

a) Wifi, Bluetooth capabilities

b) ya, it will be a phone. (thats my guess anyways)

5) New iPod Nano colors. This is probelly my only guess that I don’t really think will happen, but it could.

Anyways, I just had to go and make some predictions because everyone else is. I can’t wait to get this next week over with so I can sell my PC and by my MacBook, that is, if they release a new…er MacBook.

Firefox extention contest complete!

Eric Taylor — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:56:24 +0000

Well Mozilla’s Firefox plugin contest is complete and I love some of these plugins. I highly suggest taking a look at the list. Thanks to everyone who developed these plugins.

Reveal = best new extention
web developer = best upgraded
firefox showcase = best use of 1.5 features

View the List

Coolest Toy EVER!!

Eric Taylor — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:33:25 +0000

Built out of kevlar and carbon fiber, this miniature Tomcat figher jet can reach speeds upwards of 280 M.P.H. The models (which are exact and accurate scale replicas) use small jet turbines, functionally identical to those used in actual full-sized jets to achieve remarkable speeds and flying precision.

Feds want Google search records

Eric Taylor — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:26:16 +0000

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases…Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government’s effort “vigorously.”

MillionDollarHomepage HIJACKED FOR RANSOM!

Eric Taylor — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:57:23 +0000

Wow. The FBI is investigating the hijacking of milliondollar-homepage.com – the website that earned $1m (Â£566,000) for its British creator Alex Tew by hosting micro-advertisements – by hackers who demanded a ransom to restore the site.

Google WILL sell video online!

Eric Taylor — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:57:25 +0000

Tomorrow, Friday Jan 6, Google Inc. will announce that it will let consumers buy video over the Internet from CBS, the NBA and other providers, becoming the latest company to explore the new method of distributing TV content.

Wordpress.com open to all!!!

Eric Taylor — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:46:12 +0000

Well wordpress.com has opened their doors to all for a free blog. You’ll get your own subdomain and believe me when I say that Wordpress is the best blogging tool I have ever used. So go check it out at wordpress.com!

Ipod video

Eric Taylor — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:52:14 +0000

Well we knew (atleast I knew) that it was only a matter of time before Apple released the Apple Ipod Video. CNET got a first look at it. You can view it here.

Mystery behind numbers in “Lost” solved?

Eric Taylor — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:18:42 +0000

We all love the new show “lost” because of all the little clues they give to us, but yet no one seems to understand whats going on, well… someone may have it. It is sure to make you go “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Google In the Air, 95% of San Francisco’s air!

Eric Taylor — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:35:36 +0000

“Google has dropped another of its seemingly endless supply of bombshell announcements: The company has submitted a plan to cover 95 percent of San Francisco with 300kpbs wireless Internet access, at no charge either to users or to the city.”

Patent on NES runs out!

Eric Taylor — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:17:48 +0000

Well I love the NES, so I just had to post this.

Now that the patent has run out on the Famicon (NES) other companies can now produce the console.

What Does that Mean?

-WIRELESS CONTROLERS!!!!
-Play all of your saved NES games!!!
-Get a sweet new NES with all the cool technologies!
-Old school is much better.
I highly recommend getting one, I’m going to. This is worth the money, unlike the Xbox 360 or PS2.

Here is a link to one such company.

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100gb Divx pocket player- who needs a video ipod?

Eric Taylor — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:04:17 +0000

A mini divx player – uses 2.5″ HDD. Up to 100gb of storage mp3, photos, divx – I could completely backup my laptop, all the songs on my ipod and still hold a half dozen or more divx movies.

Student Beats Microsoft in $143.50 Legal Battle

Eric Taylor — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:34:28 +0000

After selling unopened copies of Windows XP and Office that both the store and Microsoft refused to allow him to return, 21 year-old college student David Zamos was surprised to find out that he’d been sued by Microsoft. Rather than just take it, he fought back, beating Microsoft into submission without so much as hiring a lawyer.

Inside the iPod Nano

Eric Taylor — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:35:01 +0000

Here is a sneak peak at the new iPod Nano. Make sure you have additional languages in your browser, this site linked is in a foreign language.

View the Pictures

Windows Vista Pricing – $99?

Eric Taylor — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:27:32 +0000

In an effort to reduce piracy, and convince users to not only upgrade their computers but also their OS, Microsoft is expected to dramatically reduce the price of its OS.

Give Victims of Katrina $1 for FREE!

Eric Taylor — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:09:51 +0000

Clorox is sponsering this on there web site. All you have to do Is go to the link given at the end of this post and check the box “Yes! Donate $1 on my behalf!”, then hit “Submit”. Now Clorox has asked to limit this to one “donation on our behalf” per person. I guess If you really want you can sit there and do it all day, you can. I’m not sure if they have, but I’m pretty sure they have, setup an IP checker. That way they can limit $1 to IP. But it tells you to limit one donation per person. So… I don’t know. What ever.

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Google Talk is OUT!

Eric Taylor — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:31:55 +0000

Woot I’m downloading it right now. Get it here.

Google’s IM coming Wed.?

Eric Taylor — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:55:09 +0000

So I saw today that the rumors are growing on googles IM is supposidly coming out on Wed.

“Now it’s been officially announced. From CNN news: Google’s Instant Messaging program would be called Google Talk and could be launched as early as Wednesday.
I’m looking forward to it.
Comment by Jan Paricka”

Link
Another awsome link.

Another reason why Dell sucks!

Eric Taylor — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:51:53 +0000

So we all know that the company Dell sucks, but here is another reason they suck. They advertised in Australia last week that there were selling 250GB hard drives for the AUS$8.80 instead of AUS$600

So now Dell has to make up for there mistakes, and pay up.

:rofl: omg, how could a company suck so bad, but still be alive

Google to give out free Wifi?!

Eric Taylor — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:42:11 +0000

Yup… title says it out. Check out the article here.

Have your Ipod play Video

Eric Taylor — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:13:17 +0000

OMg omG omg! I have been waiting for this for some time!

Here is a link to the article and video on how to. (only problem for me is i still need an ipod. anyone, anyone, hook ups…anyone)

Article

Help me get my free iPod

Mac OS X coming to PC, closer then ever!

Eric Taylor — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:28:38 +0000

Yes! Mac OSx86! Well here is some more stuff on Mac OS X being closer to PC compatable.

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All the screenshots are sent in from “Anonymous” duh.

Windows Antipiracy Hacked…again, duh!

Eric Taylor — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:30:48 +0000

Yup, so… like always, there is always away around everything. Windows still sucks, and I’m still waiting for Mac OS S to come to PC, and for games to go to Mac OS X. When the day comes, I’m so moving to Mac.

Windows Hacked Article