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Testing from Robert Baillio’s

March 2, 2010

This is a test post to show Robert. Here’s a picture. Notice I right-aligned it and downsized the pixel dimensions.

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Hello World

January 21, 2010

Hi Class, Comment on this.

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Revamping the Site

December 2, 2009

Hello everyone – I’m in the process of completely revamping the site again so bear with me. If you are looking for my older blog posts, they are here: www.smartergeek.com/blog As I continue to develop plugins and additions to the site, I will begin adding more content.

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Cars.gov – You or a dealer can agree to let the Feds Snoop

August 7, 2009

Thanks for point this out to me Bill. It’s a toss up on whether to post this here or on my political blog. I hate the Obama Administration and Congress (both sides of the aisle) – and people were worried about NSA wiretaps? Right. Here is the summary: If you are dumb enough to agree [...]

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Fake BSOD – Blue Screen of Death

August 5, 2009

———— It infects Windows machines via fake codec and fake Flash Player update packages planted on malicious Web sites.———— http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3912&tag=nl.e550 I’ve been preaching about this for some time now – one of the worst things about sites such as MySpace is when users are prompted to download and install something to watch a video. It [...]

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Reasons for the recent issues on computers – Flash

July 29, 2009

Initially I thought there may be some issues with the Farm games on Facebook as I had several customers experience malware issues (pop-ups, Antivirus 2009, etc) all within a short timeframe. The common denominator seemed to be the “farm” games on Facebook. After reading up on the recently revealed zero-day exploit in Flash, I now [...]

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Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford 2005

July 26, 2009

It’s no secret that I really love (in a tech sense) my iPhone and iPod. I’m not a Mac user, but I have always respected Steve Jobs. He seems to have an insight into things that is not perfect – but very very good. Here is a speech he gave at Stanford University in 2005. [...]

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Got my Google Voice Number

June 27, 2009

Just got my emailed invite from Google Voice! It looks like they might be rolling it out to the full public soon. What is cool about a Google number? It gives you one central number that can ring mulitple devices (cell phone, home phone, office phone, etc). Think about the power of that for a [...]

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Updating iPhone 3G to 3.0 Software Issue

June 17, 2009

My first attempt to update to the iPhone 3.0 software on Windows XP resulted in a “Hardware Not Found” message when the Windows Hardware Wizard attempted to install the new drivers. Unplugging the phone and plugging back in didn’t help. Pointing the Hardware Wizard to the default driver location didn’t help. Apparently the driver was [...]

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Donation Buttons

May 5, 2009

At the suggestion of one of my blog readers (from this post), I have added some donation buttons to the right side of the blog. There are two choices: (1) Using secure PayPal and (2) using my secure Authorize.net payment form. Donations are requested but not required. I post information here for the benefit of [...]

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