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Is Invading Privacy Our Only Defense?

31 December 2008 Commentsby: Will Kievit

Hand on mouseDifferent arguments have been made in the past for the treatment of ex-convicts and their privacy. Various laws have been implemented that violates their privacy (for example Meghan’s Law) and this article is not setting out to argue whether they are right or wrong. However, a new law that is starting tomorrow in Georgia seems to be a little bit too extreme.

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Gold vs. Chrome

10 December 2008 Commentsby: Will Kievit

The gold standard in the browser world: Internet Explorer. Some of us may want to puke in our mouths hearing that, but its true, the statistics don’t lie and according to w3schools.com, last year IE accounted for an average of 57.88% of browsers. Of course Mozilla Firefox is next in the lead at 34% and the good news is this year so far we have seen Firefox increase by at least 10%.

We have all seen Google come out with great services and success of these can even be shown by the company’s stock price of 315.76 (up 5.18% even with the current market status). Chrome currently accounts for 3.1% of the market and that is just while it is in its beta stage. That is more then Apple’s Safari (2.7%), which has been released for a good deal of time now.

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Google To-Do List

9 December 2008 Commentsby: Will Kievit

Google, the company that seems to think of everything, has always been lacking something… a to-do list feature. Having to use another website for a to-do list or emailing your to-do list to yourself isnt really practical and its really something that needed to be added to either Google’s mail or calendar applications.
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"Legal" Free Music

2 November 2008 Commentsby: Will Kievit

Everyone is always looking for free ways to get their music and still more are looking for ways to just listen to music but not download due to disc space, etc. Although this post is not about something brand new, it is a concept that has been getting noticably easier to do.
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Voicemail or YouMail?

23 October 2008 Commentsby: Will Kievit

YouMailThere are all types of people in the world. My girlfriend happens to be one of those people that does not check her voicemail. No matter how important the message may be, she will never hear it because she just doesn’t check it. Eventually, a month later she will call in and delete the messages, but until then… nothing. Of course, most people would rather receive a text message instead of having to listen to a message (except on occasion when you want to hear someone’s voice), its silent, quick, and can be done in circumstances such as a meeting.

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