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Entries from January 29th, 2008

Mac Lab Rat – GGP #75: Pink Privacy

January 29th, 2008 2 Comments

Time once again for another Global Geek Podcast, and with it another edition of the GGP Mac Lab update.  I’ll be your lovable host for the four minute segment, so with no further ado on to the geekery: iTimeMachine First up this week is iTimeMachine.  This application allows you to connect your computer to network [...]

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Justifying Chill Out Spaces

January 29th, 2008 No Comments

Cross-posted with Miss604.com So much in today’s world needs to be justified with numbers showing us that there is a quantifiable value for every decision. When a company spends money, more often than not they want to know how spending that money will make them more money. This is the concept of return on investment [...]

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Reminder: Take-Down your MySpace Account Tomorrow!

January 29th, 2008 2 Comments

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the official “Delete your MySpace Account Day”. If you have a MySpace account, and you don’t use it, cut down your Bacn and join in the movement. I’ve been thinking about deleting my Myspace account almost since the day I got it but always opted out of doing so [...]

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Flickr Fight Follow-up: The proof

January 26th, 2008 No Comments

After the post I did a couple of days back about FlickrFight using images and not attributing them to the photographers who took and own the images, I thought it might  help to actually point to some of the things that FlickrFight is doing. First off, they’re not copying the images, they are getting them [...]

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January 30th: International Delete Your MySpace Account Day

January 23rd, 2008 5 Comments

I’ve just been directed to a post over on Simon Owens’ site Bloggasm that January 30th is to be International “Delete Your MySpace Account Day“. As a MySpace member who only ever logs in to check on someone else’s profile about once a year, it just isn’t worth getting all the Bacn from MySpace. I [...]

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