newscaster on August 25th, 2009

A few months ago I got myself and my wife iPhones. This was the first we’ve both bought and used Apple products since we’ve been mostly PC persons, I more on the linux side of the PC. I was leaning towards and android phone but what with the bad economic situation I opted to save [...]

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newscaster on August 25th, 2009

Most of us at one time or another have been victimized by cyber-security threats in the form of viruses or trojan after we’ve looked at a photo of our favorite celebrity. This usually happens when we click a photo link from search engine results, an email or just an ad. CNN reports that this [...]

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truthcaster on August 18th, 2009

he rumors are true. Sony is coming out with a console it calls PS3 Slim that will cost $299, down from $399. engadget reports that this console will have smaller 120Gb disk, DualShock3 controllers and HDMI output with 1080p support. More importantly it will still include a Blue-ray drive. Sweet. Kmart and Sears are supposedly [...]

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truthcaster on August 12th, 2009

When I installed Microsoft Windows 7 beta on one of my computers, one things I’ve noticed was that it was a quick and rather painless install. It seems light with less “bloatware”. It reminded me of a linux install way back when Linux didn’t try to be “use-friendly”. Back then when you install Linux, you [...]

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truthcaster on August 11th, 2009

omputerworld reports Windows 7 full version is now available for sale, month’s before Microsoft officially releases it for sale.

Pirated copies of Microsoft Windows 7 have hit the shelves at China’s electronics bazaars, months before the operating system officially goes on sale.
A stall owner at one of the multistory PC markets in Beijing sold a copy [...]

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truthcaster on August 10th, 2009

Windows 7 RTM build 7600 is free for download at Technet and MSDN. The download was actually made available on August 6 and early downloaders slowed the speeds to a crawl but expect it to speed up as soon as they drop off. The 32-bit edition comes in at a heavy 2.4 Gb.
If this release [...]

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truthcaster on July 19th, 2009

If you want to go and the toilet is broken, where do you go? Well, if you need to do just the number one, then the yard will work just fine. But what if you’re inside the International Space Station?
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are working to repair one of the two toilet [...]

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truthcaster on June 24th, 2009

Bro Eli Soriano. Currently in the middle of a controversy”. So was the introduction of Arnold Clavio in his program Case Unclosed. He was talking about the fugitive televangelist Eliseo Soriano of Ang Dating Daan.
It was 3 years ago when one of his subordinates charged him with homosexual rape and sodomy.
“It was my spiritual birthday. [...]

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truthcaster on April 20th, 2009

Big news today in tech is the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Sun, powerhouse during the dot-com era finally gets gobbled another Silicon Valley gorilla, Oracle, who’s been on a buying spree of late.
Oracle buys Sun for $7.4 billion, making it a direct competitor to HP and IBM.
What I’m wondering now is would this [...]

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techcaster on March 2nd, 2009

NOTE: The blog entry sourced for this post is a little misleading.
Apparently, some enterprising individual is packaging Windows 7 beta into a full product and selling it. A blog from CNET Asia reported finding a package labeled  ”Windows 7 Ultimate” at a market notorious for selling pirated software.  The package was reportedly being sold for [...]

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