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By tomorrow morning Google Personalized Homepage will be no more, but worry not- it’s not disappearing but rather reinventing itself. The Google products team has announced the name will change to iGoogle (love it) and a ton of new features will be available. Some of those features include the ability to create your own page [...]

The euro hit $1.3682 which is an all-time, in addition the British pound is up to around $2. Boy the wife and I sure picked a great time to go to Europe…we leave in 3 weeks. Hopefully we’ll have enough money to fly back, jeesh
Euro Rises to Record High Versus Dollar

According to this post on ARS DRM (digital rights management) may be on its way out in the next 6 months. This is great news for consumers who love buying their music digitally. I personally use the cheap Russian sites not just because they are cheap but because they have no DRM attached to their [...]

Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani recently released a new Firefox extension called Better Gmail, and let me tell you it really does make your gmail experience MUCH better. It is basically a collection of some top Greasemonkey scripts that deal with increasing productivity for Gmail. For those unaware Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you [...]

If you ever have the need to resize your partitions but don’t want to pay for a copy of PartitionMagic- check out a great freeware tool called GParted. Maybe you want to remove that D:\ that your PC came installed with and put everything on C:\ in one big partition, or maybe you want to [...]

A friend sent me this today, and while the word inappropriate at least has to pop in your mind when you view it- you have to admit it’s pretty dang funny. I read the little girl’s father said he’s not worried about her picking up that bad language because she won’t remember any of it [...]

Not that I’m showing anything you wouldn’t expect- but thought I’d point out how the Virgina Tech shooting is BY FAR the most searched subject right now. See this link to see the Yahoo search rankings called Yahoo Buzz Index. It’s been interesting to see how technology has played a role in this tragedy, especially [...]

Just horrible horrible news out of Blacksburg, VA this morning. Prayers to the victims and their families, what senseless violence. For those unaware of what I’m talking about just turn on your news or check any news website.