MC2 Post 555:

The Day After Christmas 2009

Wingman is Now running Windows 7.

http://palprince.com/softwares/free-windows-7-icons/

No Blog Yesterday...

Come on, I Do Get Christmas Off.

As the Blog Post Number Shows I'm at 555.

A significant Radio Shack number

(for Me, and I have a Lot of Them).

It means a timer IC chip for adding a timer to your home projects.

 

Would You Believe Someone turned IT (pun intended) into

an Ear Ring.

Link Here: http://www.alephnaught.com/Blog/2009/04/21/make-your-very-own-ic-earring/

For family readers, No that's Not Jared, 

In the Picture...

There are Lots of Other things you can do with a 555 timer.

Check out: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/10/more_555_timer_projects.html

And Speaking of Pictures I've just re-installed CoolIris to Windows 7.

 

And Yes, They Have a Blog Too, which is 

Linked Here:

http://blog.cooliris.com/category/company/page/4/

Wingman was a bit skittish while installing the Windows Upgrade 

Two Whole Days Ago.

The Power Went Out During the First Part of the Install.

I said to myself,  "Oh No!, Here we go again..".

But a few minutes later, when the Power came on again, I started the

Process over again (crossing my fingers).

In the Words of Governor Terminator: 

"No Problemo!"

I said to myself, "Hmmm.  Windows may have Something This Time around."

I mean, it's not Ubuntu's ease for the Install (Or most of the Other Top-Tier Linux 

Distros),

But Not Bad.

Not Bad at All.

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Wingman, seeing what this thing called Windows 7 is All About.

Stay Tuned.

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Post 554: Christmas Eve

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Christmas Eve 

Merry Christmas from HP!

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Yesterday, December 23, 2009, in the mail Wingman received a blister-pack envelope with 2 DVD's and an installation fold out.  

Disk one was HP Upgrade Assistant and Disk 2 was Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Media.

To This I can Heartily say: "Thank You HP, that was nicely done a day before Christmas Eve !!!"

Wingman.

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Recognize This?

What about This ???

The Creators of VLC Are Going To Release A Video Editor called: VLMC VideoLAN 

Movie Creator:

VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a free video editing software,

offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies,

but with the aim to stay simple and user-friendly.

VLMC will be available very soon in a pre-release version for 

Linux, Windows 

and Mac, stay tuned !

You can fetch the current working tree using Git:
 

git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git

Link: http://www.learningubuntu.com/news/creators-vlc-are-going-release-video-editor

Link: http://vlmc.org/

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Preliminary Pixs of New XO Tablet:

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And a anticipated price of $100 Bucks, 

This Does LOOK Good!

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Merry Christmas

From:

Your Friendly Neighborhood Blogger:

Wingman.

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Post 553: HDTV:

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HDTV: What's It All About, Alfie?

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Broadcast HDTV and ATSC

recording primer

This Pretty Much Explains it All.

Link: http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/hdtv.html

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Top 5m USB TV Tuners

Answers the questions abour OTA HDTV Tuner Cards.

Link: http://dvr.about.com/od/capturetvwithacomputer/tp/otahdtv.htm

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Get a USB TV Tuner for $29,99 shipped

TV tuner-DVR in a box

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10419549-58.html

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HDTV Tuner Card to Superman Your PC

If your computer is connected to a Wide Screen Flat Panel Monitor,

You Need This!

Link: http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/140392/technology/hdtv_tuner_card_to_superman_your_pc.htmlhttp://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/140392/technology/hdtv_tuner_card_to_superman_your_pc.html

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Wingman, Looking At HD TV's.

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MC2 Post 552

What Can you do with a Netbook 

besides Surf?

Intel Seems to Think Quite a Lot.




First, they're Bumping Up the Processors...

Intel's next-gen Pine Trail Atom processors announced.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/intels-next-gen-pine-trail-atom-processors-officially-announced/

Broadcom's Crystal HD tech Gives New Life to N450-based Netbooks.

Broadcom's Crystal Brings 

True HD Playback on NetBooks???

 Story Link and Video at: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/broadcoms-next-crystal-hd-tech-to-liven-up-hd-capabilities-of-n/

VID: Broadcom Crystal HD Solution.

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A Torrent of Atom N450 Netbooks 

coming Jan. 11, 2010.

From Engadget:

The Long awaited move to the Pine Trail

platform is set to go off with

a pretty major bang of vendor support

come next month. Acer, ASUS,

Lenovo, and MSI are all said to have lined up

their N450 wares --

we know that for a fact with Lenovo --

and are now awaiting Lord Intel's

predetermined date to start shipping.

We're also hearing the even faster N470 chip

will start making the rounds in March 2010.

Link: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091204PD218.html

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From NotebookReview.com:

What's In an Atom N450 NetBook?

ASUS Eee PC 1005PE Review
 

Link: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5437

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Wingman, Watching the Small Stuff...

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Post 551: The Cool and the Crazy..

3 New Atom Chips from Intel

Intel  lifted the curtain Monday on the 

three new Atom processors and the low-power 

NM10 Express chipset that make up the hardware platform 

codenamed Pine Trail. 

The single-core Atom N450 is intended for netbooks, 

while the single-core D410 and dual-core D510 were 

built for what Intel formerly called nettops but now refers to as 

entry-level desktop PCs.

Link:

http://www.crn.com/hardware/222002751;jsessionid=SVG0YXHLYAQARQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN

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Leaping Lizards Smuggling

Lomita man Tries to smuggle 

15-Live Lizards through LAX.

Link: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/weird/LAX-Bust-Live-Lizards-to-Chest-70672232.html

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Barnes & Noble (BNK.N) to 

compensate for late Nooks-report

Dec 21 (Reuters) - Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) plans to give a $100 

online gift certificate to consumers who ordered its Nook electronic reader 

but won't get it in time for Christmas, a post on online publication 

The Consumerist showed.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE5BK0EJ20091221?type=marketsNews

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Wingman.

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MC2 Post 550: The Good News and The Bad News

Good News 1.

HDTV Christmas Sales at 

Best Buy, Sears and Target Stores:

Link to HDTV Christmas Sales: http://blogs.zdnet.com/home-theater/?p=2142&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+ZDNetBlogs+%28ZDNet+All+Blogs%29

135 to 26 characters.  Remember when writers were paid by the Letter?  That's what it reminds me of; Chicken Feeders.

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/yhy447g

Also Good News.

iPhone Now the Punching Bag of SNL.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/20/poor-iphone-reception-graduates-to-snl-weekend-update-joke-sta/

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Jimmy Fallon and the Nerdy Guy Yuk it Up

Late Night Style (videos)

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/19/josh-and-jimmy-yuk-it-up-late-night-style-video/

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The Bad News

"Remember that any praise of Windows 

doesn't go unpunished.."

BSOD the sequel.

This Weekend, I suffered my first BSOD on my less than year-old Vista machine.  

I was just about ready to offer some praise to the little beastie, 

for being kinda-sorta stable.

After an hour of pushing buttons it restored to a 

previous setting.  

Whew!

Wingman, still sweating the little stuff...

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MC2 Post 549: Best Sellers on the iPod Touch/MP3 Players

I've always been a Fan of Books.  

Worked Part-Time in the College Library, when I went there in the 60's.  

I wanted to to be a Writer.  I'm still working on it.  So it comes as no surprise that 

my favorite App for any Digital Device is an App that let's you download Books.  

I'd Like an eBook Reader like the Kindle, but I don't think it's quite there yet.  

And the price is still too high for us regular folks.

A couple of years ago I signed on to Audible and that has changed quite 

a lot of things.

The Funny part about that is that it required an MP3 Player that worked on 

Windows or the Mac.  

I had neither, being a born-again Open Source Guy that was in awe of Linux 

(still am).  The little OS that could do So Much More, and being Open Source.  

I was a Fan of Linux before it became the favorite of Builders of Super Computing 

Clusters.  And Lately a Favorite of Smart Phone Builders.  

But Still Not compatible with Audible...

Proprietary vendors thought of Linux as an ugly sister that they were not interested 

in dating,  let alone supporting.  

I did have an Windows XP work machine that I had access to, so I went for it.

My first compatible MP3 Player was a 2gb Creative Zen Stone Player.  The one with 

the battery draining but neat (and ultra tiny) OLED blueish display.

It had an FM tuner, Voice Recorder, Clock, stored MP3's and was Audible 

Compatible.  

This Player has Served me nicely, with over almost 300 mp3 songs and  5 audible 

books totaling 95 plus hours of reading.


I filled that up pretty quickly, so I picked-up another Creative Zen Stone without the 

OLED, but with a speaker.  The Creative Zen Stone Plus, in Black:

It too Filled-up quickly.

Then the Apple iPod Touch caught my attention.  

Really as an bigger storage device.  

8GB as opposed to 2GB.

I didn't Even have an inkling what a Dang unbelievable Computer that Fit in

my pocket was going to do to me.

Not a Clue!

You don't want to know how many gadgets I have on my little baby.  

For over a year I didn't even put books on it.  

Can't do it with Linux.

Because of iPod Touch, I bought a Windows Vista Desktop.  Yeah, I know.

Dissuaded to join the ranks of the security unholy.  

Why, because of the marvel of a machine the iPod Touch is.

It IS a Cultural and Technological Shift.

I can't state it any other way.

I became in Awe of Technology again.

Wingman.

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Post 548 An A-Z Index of Windows XP command Line

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A A-Z Index of Windows XP command Line

Yep! This IS the Link: http://ss64.com/nt/

Beautiful.

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How-to-Geek Shows You How-To

Create Customised Desktop Wallpapers Collages with Photovisi

Link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7203/create-customized-desktop-wallpapers-with-photovisi/

Also Beautiful.,..


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Apple stonewalls VLC

Not good enough

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566587/apple-stonewalls-vlc

 
But Most Techies KNOW that VLC is Fantastico !!!

Get It HERE, NOW !

Link to VLC: http://vlcdownload.net/

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Wingman Loves VLC and XP's Too !!!

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Post 547: Cherrypal Offers "Laptop" for Under $100 BUCKS

Let's Go Cherry-Picking "Laptops" 

 

for Under $100 BUCKS

This story is from PCWorld Business Center Blog Site:

Linked Here:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184709/cherrypal_offers_laptop_for_under_100.html

 

Notebook may be Over Stating it.  Even NetBook is Not Quite Right. 

Maybe Sub-NetBook.  It does pave the way for something interesting from Apple in the Tablet Format at maybe $200-300 price point, eh?

Technabob Had a Bit More Details (including the Picture above).  It's named Africa, 

not a technological wonder by any means, but at $99 Bucks, interesting. 

Technabob Link is Here: http://technabob.com/blog/2009/12/17/cherrypal-africa-99-dollar-netbook/

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Wingman Watching the Small Stuff Too...

 

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MC2 Post 546: Take A Note for Firefox

howtogeek.com has a neat add-on for Firefox.

Add a QuickNote Function to Firefox.

It Will Look Like THIS:

Would you like to have a built-in notepad for your Firefox Browser?





See just how useful QuickNote can be for your everyday browsing.

Link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/6939/add-a-quicknote-function-to-firefox/

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Wingman, Doing inventory this Week...

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Post 545: Super Thin Is STILL In

Seagate laptop Hard Drive Goes Super Thin

The 250GB hard drive priced at $55.
No word on the 160GB version.

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10414903-1.html

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And Here's the SKINNY on 

BEST OF 2009 Lists...

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The First BEST Of 2009 List is from 

LifeHacker.com

Link: http://lifehacker.com/tag/bestof2009/?skyline=true&s=x

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 That List Includes the Following...

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1. Most Popular Photography HACKS of 2009
2. Most Popular DIY PROJECTS of 2009
3. Most Popular Top 10's of 2009
4. Most Popular How-To Features of 2009

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The TOP 40 Best FREE iPod Touch Apps

Link: http://iphonetouch.blorge.com/2009/03/22/top-40-best-free-ipod-touch-apps/

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Top 25 Rated iPhone or iTouch APPS

Link: http://www.appsafari.com/top/

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Top 15 FREE Apps for iPod Touch and iPhone (YouTube VIDEO)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BOqiC-2oM&feature=player_embedded#
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Another Best of 2009 from LifeHacker.

Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2009

Link: http://lifehacker.com/5426007/most-popular-free-windows-downloads-of-2009?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

167 characters not as good as 26, huh?

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/y9jqfeu

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Wingman, Trying to Keep Up With the BEST  OF Links, Really...

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Post 544: Two Days Before the Mast (lit).

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Two Days Before the Mast.
 

DailyRotation 

NewsPick Links:

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If You Ever Need a Breakdown Review of NEW Hardware, 

Tom's Hardware is THE Place to Look.

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On A Lighter Note, 

Here's Tom Hardware's 

2009 Gift Guide:

Link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/buy-zune-hd,2502.html#xtor=RSS-182

Note to My Family members, That 24" DELL LCD Display Looks pretty cool to Me.

I said The Monitor...

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And Speaking about Big Displays,  

How about the New iMac 27", 

reviewed by ArsTechinca.com.

Link:  http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/12/imac-27-core-2-duo-review-yep-its-still-an-imac.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Wingman QUIETLY shaking his Head.....

143 characters of Foolishness....


More Logicol TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/y9w8jwd

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Never One to Pick Great Movies for Real SF Fans, Wired tries again and

Predicts Avatar will change a lot of Things.

James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic 

Could Change Film Forever

Link: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_cameron?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

Wired's Links Are SO OLD SCHOOL though... at 171 characters LONG.

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/y9vx9yv

This makes more SENSE at only 26 characters...


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From ExtremeTech
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(Nothing to Do With The Character From The Get Smart Show)

Is Larrabee Dead?: 

The Tangled Future of CPUs and GPUs

Link: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2357033,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fextremetech+%28Extremetech%29

Above Link Link Not Functional because it's The

Winner of the BOZO's Award for character length at 183...

Use This Instead, It's the Logical thing to do.

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ydfglks


Wingman, Blogging

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Post 543: A Gift from LIFEHACKER.com

This Week's Top Downloads

Link: http://lifehacker.com/5424957/this-weeks-top-downloads?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

CRAP!!!  148 characters   L - o - n - g.....Why oh Why?  

Haven't they heard of Web 2.0???


And 3.0 is Just Around The Corner !!!

This Kind of Stuff is Just Ridiculous, in this day and age..

Wingman.

Take the Short Route, from ME!

TinyURL:     http://tinyurl.com/yanb49o

Be advised, Some of the iPhone Downloads

Require iPhone 3.1 Software Update.

Sorry JailBreakers...

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Post 542: DRBD Goes MainLine???

Post 542: DRBD Goes MainLine??? 

What's DRBD

PIX: Proud LinBit Team.

Lars Ellenberg, Stefan Schleifer, Philipp Reisner, Gerhard Sternath,

Philipp Richter, Clemens Niederreiter. 

 

Their DRBD development is to be part of the Linux Kernel. 

 

Courtesy of: LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH

Dec 10, 2009

The HA technology, Distributed Replicated Block Device 
(DRBD), is to be merged into the

official Linux kernel, probably from version 2.6.33.

The announcement came on the blog of Florian Haas from Linbit, the Austrian company,

specialized in High Availability, that until now has nurtured the DRBD code outside of the

mainline kernel. On December 8, highest kernel chief, Linus Torvalds, accepted the source

text into his kernel tree, which sometime next month should become the 2.6.33 release.

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Linux Magazine Link: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/DRBD-Merged-into-Mainline-Kernel

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Meet TUZ

Linus Torvalds announced at the Australian Linux.conf.au that he wants to make the

conference mascot, the Tasmanian Devil (considering that the conference took place in

Hobart, Tasmania) the new logo for Linux Kernel 2.6.29.


Called "Tuz" for short, the carnivorous marsupial matched with Tux the penguin's beak was

designed partly to draw attention to the endangered Australian species and save it from

extinction.

Link: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Tasmanian-Devil-Mascot-for-Kernel-2.6.29

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The Blog Ideas Posted came from:

Linux-Magazine.com

Wingman, Still Watching Linux Stuff.

Post 542: Hack Firefox: Secrets of About Config

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Hack Firefox: 

Secrets of About Config

From Computerworld:

Link: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9020880/Hacking_Firefox_The_secrets_of_about_config

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10 Windows features for Linux, 

and It's Not Security...

Link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28258&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ZDNetBlogs+%28ZDNet+All+Blogs%29

UG-LY Url is 127 chars LONG

Try TinyURL at a sensible 26: http://tinyurl.com/yz2r8ph

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A Very Different Wall Calendar...

The Heavy Equipment Calendar 2010 came about with CAT fan Marcus Mumbach trekking across Europe, photographing these beautiful machines in action.

Pick up a calendar for your nearest and dearest, for just €29.80 ($42).

Link: http://gizmodo.com/5423171/have-a-heavy-german-babe-on-your-wall-every-month-of-2010

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"Hey, Little Buddy?"

From Science Daily:

Faint Star Orbiting the 

Big Dipper's Alcor Discovered.

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210000851.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Ugh!!!!!!

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ybuqmzm

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Wingman Talking...

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2 Big Whoas Following Patch Tuesdays Yesterday

Internet Content Logger (FREE)

From Shell Extension City:

INTERNET CONTENT LOGGER..........

Save all incoming and outgoing Internet traffic on the hard disk and capture all the

incoming and outgoing Internet traffic of your programs. Internet Content Logger works on the system level, and supports

nearly all know Internet related programs. The Internet content for each program is saved in its individual log file. The content

log files also are separated by date and by computer users.

If You Need To Keep Track of Everything That Goes On, this Program will save the INFO to a Log File....

Important, this IS a Logger, NOT Spyware...

Link: http://www.contentlogger.com/index.html

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(( This SNAP of Patch 2 Out of 5
For Patch Tuesday ))

Patch Tuesday Had a Whole Slew of 

Updates for Patch Tuesday

If You Follow Security Guru Steve Gibson on Security Now, with Leo Laporte,

Keeping Up on Update Patches is a Must...

Link: http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

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Wingman, Watching Our Backs and Fronts...

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