Toddlorensinclair's Blog (11)

Dishonesty, Deception, Trickery ... it's the way of doing Business in America

Why has America accepted these practices with an "Oh well!" attitude. Why aren't we outraged when Monster Cables sells an HDMI cable for $79.99 that they imply works better than a standard cable when video expert (Scott Wilkinson) will tell you the $5.99 HDMI cable works the same. Dishonesty is everywhere. Companies will go to any length to increase their bottom line ... ethics… Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on January 12, 2009 at 12:26pm — 7 Comments

Windows 7 Beta Release ... Huge Failure - Back up on Saturday ... Apology on Monday

Update: Saturday January 10th 1:00 PM eastern time. Site is back up .. Key acquired ... all is right with the world. Update 2: Monday January 12th 9:00 AM. Microsoft Apologizes - 2.5 million key limit removed! "I know many of you had issues with the Windows 7 beta site of the last 24 hours," Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows communications manager, wrote in a blog… Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on January 9, 2009 at 11:30pm — 6 Comments

Black Friday - The Shopping Spree Online - All Week - and then Cyber Monday Sucked!

For those of you who didn't notice last week had some pretty nice discounts ... You didn't have to go to Walmart or BestBuy at 5am to get the deals either.

In fact you didn't have to wait until Friday to start shopping either because most of the online stores had deals going all week that were usually better than the stuff in the advertising circulars where… Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on December 1, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

OfficeMax’s ElfYourself.com partners with jibjab

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Added by toddlorensinclair on November 13, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Got Windows 7 ? ... find out how to unlock the special features.

This was discussed last week on Leo Laportes TWIT podcast featuring Paul Thurrott and Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera ... discussing Microsoft PDC and Windows 7.

Rafael stumbled upon the unlock while looking thru the mounds of stuff provided at PDC and posted the how to on his blog. Way to go Rafael 2 points for you!

Wal-Mart sending pre-recorded messages to cellphones

Word of warning ... never give your cellphone number to a credit card company.

Wal-Mart store credit card users received notice of an addendum to their agreement this month that is going to cost them money. The addendum is basically saying that unless you opt-out they will send automated or pre-recorded messag… Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on November 9, 2008 at 7:50am — 1 Comment

News Flash - Hulu and Netflix play directly to your TV - Popcorn hour - WHS and My Little Movie Jukebox

Popcorn hour a110 ... its a networked media tank, a NAS, A UPNP server, a samba server, a media server, a NFS server, a Bitorent client, an NZB client and an energy saver to boot.

So my Popcorn hour a110 came in last week and I've been having tons of fun playing with it. I have a… Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on October 25, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Absentee Ballot - Be careful … you could poke your eye out with that thing!

Pencils are dangerous - Remember the warnings you got from your mother … “if you stab yourself you’ll get lead poisoning” (actually Mom ... it’s not lead its graphite) and “Be careful … you could poke your eye out with that thing!”

I received my absentee ballot in the mail the other day and was r… Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on October 12, 2008 at 5:52am — No Comments

Consumer Spending – The Winners and Losers!

What will consumers be cutting you ask? Non-essential items are the 1^st to go.

When the money is tight budgets have to be cut and with 42% of the population making less than $25,000 a year these are the items to observe.

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Added by toddlorensinclair on October 10, 2008 at 10:01pm — No Comments

Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont Scifi Quiz Show

Pretty cool ... from MushyGushy Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont in a Quiz Show .. I think you'll like it! (Tom Merritt is among other things a host on CNET's Buzz Out Loud and Veronica Belmont is among other things a co-host on Revision3's tech-centric show, Tekzilla.)

Brought to you by MushyGushy.com and the Popcorn Hour Group on Geeks. Continue

Added by toddlorensinclair on October 8, 2008 at 3:18pm — No Comments

MS Dewey - a search engine with attitude

You've gotta see this ... Ms. Dewey search ... A visual search engine ... I'm sure this has been out for a while but I just recently saw it and thought it was truly entertaining.