When Google Chrome came out I was excited at first as it was super fast.  I was a tad annoyed as it was another browser in the already annoyingly saturated market that web designers have to take into consideration when designing.  Then I read an article about the TOS for Google Chrome and how they [...]

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Dell is now selling the Inspiron mini 9, which is a mini notebook with solid state drives and with the base model having Ubuntu pre-installed.  With all options the top price is $494, this includes:

1 GB of RAM
integrated Webcam and Bluetooth
16 GB Solid State Hard Drive

Intel® AtomTM Processor (1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)

If you [...]

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Amazon today announced the release of their EBS, persistent Storage, for their EC2 instances.  In the past you had to backup your EC2 instance to S3 as EC2 was temp storage and when you shut it down it lost of of its data.
This is a big step for Amazon becoming a player in the Cloud [...]

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I’m playing catchup on my RSS feeds this weekend and ran into a great tip on CNET for Gmail that allows you to enable https by default.  This is definitely a good preventative meassure to take especially if you are using Gmail for your work.

Tags: gmail, https, LVTC, secure, security

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CNET ran an article about a good deal on a 4GB Sandisk Sansa.  If you are interested in purchasing this refurbished MP3 player it will only cost you $39.99, that includes Free Shipping.  Buy it now at Buy.com.

Tags: free shipping, LVTC, mp3 player, sandisk, sandisk sansa

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