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Save On Car Insurance by Raising Your Deductible
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...get it, they often leave it alone. Unfortunately, this can mean that you are throwing some of your hard-earned money away. Saving money, however, means that you need to be willing to analyze your curr...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
...There's one secret to taking out a mortgage loan without losing your mind: Don't obsess over those mortgage interest rates.
Unfortunately, this is the one piece of advice very few borrowers l...
Apricorn Promises to Beef Up 5th Generation iPod Storage
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...eople who need even more that 120GB of storage.
They are selling a combo kit that includes a 240GB hard drive and an 850mAh replacement battery. This kit also comes with the necessary tools to crack ...
Another stimulus package
in Sox First, on July 6, 2009
...package. Besides the economy, there is another reason and it's political. A recovery that's hard to read and goes nowhere will erode Obama's high approval rating which is really the bedroc...
Headache Online Tool: Headache U
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 4, 2009
...ffect three times more women than men? Whatever the pattern may be, get out some paper and start taking notes! The National Headache Foundation and Headache U is the perfect resource for you to check ...
Take Better Fireworks Pictures With Your Digital Camera Tonight
in Digital Shot, on July 4, 2009
...rld to celebrate or commemorate many different types of events and I can never get enough of them.
Taking pictures of fireworks can be a bit challenging but with today's digital cameras, and camc...
Criticism starts to catch up to AppEngine
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2009
... from the bottom up than the top down (and I think that can be a valid strategy in some cases). But taking that route avoids taking much responsibility for your product, and that ultimately leads to w... ...ed utility computing solutions, while advocates point out that software failures in any venue are hardly unique and that economics, if nothing else, dictate that these solutions will improve and dom...
USB 3.0 Is Coming Soon to Make Your PC Even More Obsolete
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...f Taiwan as early as this summer. Certainly, but the end of the year, holiday PC's and external hard drives will be hitting the shelves.
USB 3.0 allows for transfers of data up 5GB/s. Yes, that i...
World Bank finally catches up with Siemens
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
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Seems like regulators are finally dealing with bribers and cheaters. But they're taking their time. Two years after Siemens executives were convicted of paying bribes to get business, the Wor...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
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Hard to go past Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone where he accuses it of engineering every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Taibbi doesn't pull any punches either. He ...
Are you ready for a mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 1, 2009
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If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you might not be ready to own a home. Taking out a mortgage loan is a big financial responsibility. You have to make these payments on tim...
Madoff's tough spell
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...s in the prison library. And he will probably be sent to a medium to high security prison and get a hard time from other prisoners wanting to make a name for themselves. "If they see an opportuni...
Reality TV Coming to Cancun
in Latina Viva, on June 30, 2009
...und out in April that the newest season of The Show That Will Never Die, The Real World , would be taking place in Cancun at the ME Cancun Hotel. Now with the show set to debut this Wednesday on MTV....
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...hat the few borrowers who did handle interest-only loans properly should have been discouraged from taking them out.
That's the fear with plain vanilla: You might discourage creative, smart mone...
AADE'sNew Blog: Diabetes Education Voices
in Daily Diabetic, on June 29, 2009
...r an educator's insight into healthy eating, being active, monitoring blood glucose, medication-taking, problem solving, reducing risks, and coping strategies.
The are working diabetes educators&...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
• Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
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• Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment
• Yep, iPorn Is Here For The iPhone
• The Power of Word in Outlook
• CBS Interactive's Smith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting ...
Dragging out the foreclosure mess
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 26, 2009
...lls. But they're still living in their homes. That's because there are so many foreclosures taking place, that banks are behind on taking back foreclosed properties . That leaves many homeown... ... the house, where perhaps they raised their children, is not really theirs anymore.
Even the most hardhearted among us can see how this might be painful, no?
Unfortunately, it's a situation tha...
Madoff's jail survival guide
in Sox First, on June 26, 2009
Bernard Madoff, 71, gets sentenced on Monday and the tips are coming in on how he could best survive jail. Whether it's 12 years, as his lawyers have asked, or longer. Lawyers have told CNN he is unlikely to leave prison alive. Madoff is likely to be sent to a medium security jail. And ...
Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
...ng up to %20 off of the full retail package product suggested pricing on some Windows versions, and taking off up to %50 for pre-orders. This mostly seems to affect the home versions; Windows 7 Profes...
Digital Picture Frames Get Smarter
in Digital Shot, on June 25, 2009
...trings, which makes deciding what to buy difficult.
For the digital photographer, after the fun of taking the pictures and editing them on a computer is over, the next logical step is to display some...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 24, 2009
Da Lat is the honeymoon capital of Vietnam. It is a romantic French Provincial town snuggled into the cool hills of Southeast Asia.
Detailed day-by-day weather records are not available for Da Lat, but the temperature in the city is consistent throughout the summer months: lows drop into the upp...
OTOY Demonstrates True Potential of Cloud Computing
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 24, 2009
...Cloud computing is certainly a buzzword today, but it is a concept that is taking hold with a gusto. As netbooks become more popular, and smartphones become more nimble and more intelligent, people ar... ...le are going to want legitimate ways to harness the power of the internet on dispoportionatley weak hardware. For example, a person might want to play a PC killing game like Crysis on a small device l...
Can Wind Power Make a Profit?
in IfEnergy, on June 23, 2009
...ld come to only 18% of peak output, meaning that the juice would be worth $30,000 a year. It's hard to cover the interest on a $500,000 loan with a $30,000 annual payback. It's not an unusual ...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
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It's hard to believe but bankers are now raking in enormous bonuses despite the global financial crisis. The Financial Times reports that Merrill Lynch, UBS and Citigroup are actually crank...
The Cloud Is Coming - and With It, Change for Business
in Web 2.0, on June 21, 2009
...iness and management .
The concept of cloud computing is one of a user sitting at a terminal taking advantage of services, storage space, and resources provided somewhere else - on another compu...
Social Entrepreneurhip at Stanford
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
...of the main areas is social entrepreneurship. I try to cover some of the initiatives they have been taking in my posts but the one I am sharing with you in this post in quite nice to start with. It...
Have a Ball - in Dublin...
in Wandalust, on June 21, 2009
... MSNBC recently looked at the city of Dublin and said that despite the hard economic times, visitors to the Irish capital can still have a ball there. While Ireland's famed "Celtic Tiger&quo...
US Immigration Overhaul "Essential"
in Global Mobility Report, on June 20, 2009
...f an issue, politically, at the moment. With healthcare, swine flu, Iran, and so many other things taking up the media spotlight, immigration reform might actually get some legislative work done on it...
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...hird quarter of 2009. Big deal!! Don't crack open the champagne yet. The next few years will be hard. If you expect it will be anything like the boom years, you're kidding yourself. First, th...
T-Mobile Aims High with the Dash 3G
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 19, 2009
...on-based services and the ever-handy synchronization with Microsoft Outlook.
Not only is T-Mobile taking on Research in Motion's BlackBerry line and Apple's legendary iPhone with the new Das...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...e motivator to serving their country, I think they'll fit in very well with us." It's hard to imagine any actually making that switch. Going from a hedge fund to the CIA is a massive cha...
Keep Your Computer Clean & Make Better Digital Photographs
in Digital Shot, on June 18, 2009
...d job.
So the answer is do everything you can to speed up your computer, such as defragmenting the hard drive and deleting unnecessary programs and files.
And, download today's free program, Pl...
Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 17, 2009
... use of a company cell phone to be taxed like other fringe benefits tracking personal use with painstaking documentation of minutes.
The cell phone tax can be a pain for workers who increasingly use... ...layers in the rapidly growing sector.
In the meantime, President Obama asked Congress to repeal a hard-to-enforce tax on the personal use of work cell phones, appeasing the business community, phone...
I Am Making The SSD Jump Thanks to Kingston V-Series Kit
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 16, 2009
...rtises up to 100MB/Sec read speeds. Kingston promises a 50% speed improvement over standard 7200RPM hard drives, and a 1 million mean time before failure. More importantly, the process to upgrade, and...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ts here . Some of it is truly harrowing and heart-breaking. Read through the stuff and it hits how hard these people have been hurt by the crime. Consider this: "We are in our mid 60s and began...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
...performance. All that suggests is that the road back out of this recession is going to be long and hard. The pain will be around for a long time....
In Search of a Cool Summer: Lake Baikal, Siberia
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 12, 2009
One of the least noticed natural wonderlands in the tourist world today is Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia.
During the 52 days between June 20th and August 10th it usually breaks 85F degrees in Ulan-Ude (on the shores of Lake Baikal) less than a dozen times each year. The high temperature is more...
Save Money on Air Conditioning This Summer
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 12, 2009
...ilters are clean and that the unit is functioning properly. This enables it to not have to work so hard to keep your home cool.
2. Plant shade trees near the house to help keep direct sunlight off t...
Archos Makes Sexy Portable Tablet Because Apple Won't
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 12, 2009
...vel notebooks. It features an Intel ATOM™ Z515 processor, 1GB of RAM (upgradable to 2GB) an 80 GB hard disk, Bluetooth and WiFi. In Europe, the device will also come bundled with the antena and abilit...
Adobe Flash 10 wird mobil
in BlackBerry World, on June 11, 2009
...systemen wie Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian und webOS laufen. "Auf Basis der bisherigen Hardeware-Plattformen konnten wir nur eine abgespeckte Variante des Flash Players mit eingeschränktem Fun...
WD Announces 4TB My Book Studio Edition II for Mac
in On Storage, on June 11, 2009
...d USB 2.0 interfaces," writes GadgetReview's Christen da Costa . "Inside are two 2TB hard drives with WD GreenPower technology for power savings and fanless operation."
"The...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...alked down the price. But then, he has done the same for his own mastheads. Based on that, it's hard to see anyone buying a newspaper....
What economy? CEO private jets take off
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...ief executive officers, despite their abysmal performance, are soaring with reports that more are taking to using private jets. According to the reports, 79.2% of Fortune 100 CEOs got jet benefits l...
Mugabe's lecture on fixing economies.
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
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Hard to comprehend Africa. Robert Mugabe, who destroyed the Zimbabwe economy and has, according to the CIA World Factbook taken inflation to a gob-smacking 11.2 million per cent and unemployment...
Why the Vintage Racing League Should Matter to You
in Classical Drives, on June 10, 2009
... Those who go to great lengths to keep their hobby cars spotless and free from damage might find it hard to conceive that owners would take such risks but on the other hand, race cars were built to be...
Test To Determine Baby's Gender, Now Can Be Done At Home
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 10, 2009
...t; react differently if a woman is carrying a boy or a girl.
It claims that within 10 minutes of taking the urine test, a woman will be able to tell her baby's gender. The specimen will turn gre...
God versus Tiger
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...s they enter heaven.
God asks Arnie first: 'What do you believe?'
Arnie thinks long and hard, looks God in the eye, and says, 'I believe
in hard work, and in staying true to family an...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...gage loans that they take out, I get sneers. These borrowers should have done their homework before taking out a mortgage loan that they eventually wouldn't be able to pay, people will say to me.
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Planes, trains & automobiles & climate change
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
...s been said about using public transport to solve climate change. Basically, the argument goes that taking a train or bus produces fewer greenhouse gases than driving. But now a new study, reported ...
Crowdsourcing
in Web 2.0, on June 7, 2009
...ng before, but it's been a little while. Wikipedia defines crowdsourcing as "the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefine...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...ul). That the division is immediately profitable isn't much surprise, either; Google wasn't taking a bath on the free version, it only stands to reason that the $50/year/user would turn into m...
Reality TV, French style
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
...he BBC reports, that the court felt that the effort the contestants put into the show constituted hard work. The show follows couples who are separated on a tropical island where single people to tr...
Introducing the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive for the Mac
in On Storage, on June 4, 2009
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Iomega this week released the new Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive for the Mac , which boasts multiple interfaces and up to 500GB of capacity.
"Featuring both flavors of FireWire and USB...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...any's battle to come through might take it in a completely different direction. Still, it's hard to ignore film-maker Michael Moore's vision of what could be done. Moore argues the money...
Back Up Your Digital Photos The Easy Way With This Free Software
in Digital Shot, on June 4, 2009
...ge that can make the task of file backup and, when you need to do it, easy transfer of data between hard drives.
The good folks at Paragon software are offering, only until midnight tonight though, t...
Be honest with your finances before taking on a mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 2, 2009
...king through.
But one of the biggest factors? Borrowers weren't honest with themselves before taking on their mortgage loans.
A mortgage loan is a huge responsibility. For most people, it's...
Kevia Jeffrey-West Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 2, 2009
...about having her jewels for themselves. Eight months and a successful trunk show later, Kevia began taking boutique orders.
Gold Vermeil & Blue Topaz Earrings
Gemstone and Cubic Zirconia ea...
Xbox Project Natal Makes You Get Up and Move
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 2, 2009
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The one thing I liked about the Wii is that my son had to stand up to play it effectively; it was hard to be lazy and play it. Microsoft has taken the whole "motion sensitive" and movement...
GM's bad ad
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
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It's hard to go past the chutzpah of General Motors' latest ad, posted on YouTube and Facebook, shortly after it filed for bankruptcy. You can watch it courtesy of AdvertisingAge . With ...
Questions which should be answered when buying a mid-size ERP
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
... important questions which should be answered when choosing a mid-size ERP solution. It's worth taking a look at this piece and you can download it here . The document tries to create a balanced ...
Jewelry Sale at ARingThing.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...rdable.
Femi 18K White & Yellow Gold Diamond Ring
This is a striking contemporary ring, hard edged, accented with brilliant diamonds.
Diamond: 84 round accents, .42 ctw
Metal: 18K white a...
Summer Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 31, 2009
... Golf in Niagara Falls
Summer is just about upon us in the northern hemisphere - hard to believe.
But there you have it, so it might be time to start thinking about a golf holiday - you know, ta...
New MBAs claim they'll be ethical. Yeah right!
in Sox First, on May 31, 2009
...up again. My skepticism is shared by the Seeking Alpha blog which pointedly observes that lawyers taking oaths has done little to clean up that profession. As it says: "Forgive the skepticism,...
How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
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Hard to comprehend the extraordinary $200 million investment in Facebook by Digital Sky Technologies, a private Russian internet investment group. As reported in the Financial Times , it values F...
More bad news: Mortgage delinquencies on the rise
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 29, 2009
...iddle of 2006 or so.
The problem is, when you read the newspapers or listen to the radio, it's hard to remember that there was a time when the housing market wasn't just doing well, it was bo...
Keep Tabs on Prices for Better Money Management
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 29, 2009
... small notebook with items you regularly buy and the price is a good way to identify a great deal. Taking a minute to check in your notebook will verify that you can save money on that item.
Sometime...
Windows 7: More of the New '7'
in Wangtam, on May 27, 2009
...n Las Vegas
• Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web
• Twitter Guys: We'll Still Be Running This Company in 5 Years
• People Networks President Joanna Shields Leavi...
