the boomer live

Google will be doing a usability study of their Blogger software, and they want to pay people for their input……$75 for an hour of your time. If you are interested you can apply here.    Apart from making some money I would think it would be an interesting experience.

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Microsoft in another display of incompetent (greedy) management has discontinued the family pack upgrade (3 installs) of the new Windows 7 operating system for $155.  This morning I was going to buy the family pack to upgrade our computers.  One to replace Vista, which was another piece of MS incompetence, the other 2 have XP, [...]

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I’ve been trying out the Microsoft Bing Search Engine for the past week…. I must admit I was a bit skeptical in the beginning (being a Microsoft product) but,  my verdict is…………… it actually gets much better results than Google for me.  It is especially good on travel related searches.   Try it for yourself and [...]

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If you are planning to fish in Florida you should consider this I-Phone App.  It’s crammed with useful information, License Info, Protected Species, Fishing Seasons, Fish Records,  and lots more.  It also has a clever Fish weight calculator built in .     Not sure what fish is dangling on the end of your line [...]

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I have been using Glary Utilities on my computers to clean up stray files and the registry.  It made quite a difference on an old lap top running XP.  Its very easy to use.  If you are not very tech savvy just use the 1-Click Maintenance tab, click scan for problems and it will tell [...]

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Ministers announced this lunchtime a proposal that will make every home in Britain eligligible for 2 mb broadband access – free.  The program will be paid for by levies on the phone companies.  It does come with anti piracy policies. A full story can be read here at The Times of London.  Wish they would [...]

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After a long time using Brighthouse in Pinellas & Hillsborough County (changed fromTime Warner),  and three months of poor internet service, we finally decided to give the much touted Verizon Fios Service a try. We have had the Verizon FIOS service for 7 months and the following is our opinion of  the service. Installation: I [...]

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I had previously made a couple photo book using Shutterfly, and was very happy with them.  However  I had to produce a photo book for work and I needed the size to be larger than Shutterfly offered.  MyPublisher offers a book in a 15″ x 11.5″ format which is excellent. Making the book: I downloaded [...]

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