Feliz Validas

I’ve been playing around with the beta of Validas this evening and I think it’s going to be huge. While in beta the registration is free and I definitely suggest you have a look and try it out.

Here’s the deal: Go to your cell carrier’s site and download your most recent cell phone bill.

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What’s on Your USB Key — That You Actually Use?

Peter and I had a brief IM chat about this the other night.

Mike Gunderloy touched on it in an article today.

You probably have a USB key full of “stuff” — but of all that stuff, what do you actually use on a regular basis?

I’ll start. I have a page here titled The Toolkit -v2.0.

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Google Search Changes?

Is this new? Earlier this evening I did a quick one-word search at google for “svchost” and noticed something a bit different at the bottom of the search results page.

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It could be that I rarely pay attention, but the “Searches related to:” thing is a new one on me. As

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Tip: Tracking Down That Wiley Svchost Process

Sometimes the computer seems pretty slow. You fire up Task Manager and a quick glance shows the CPU running at 100%! Flip to the Process tab, click on the CPU column heading (to sort) and see that svchost.exe is using all the cycles.

Traditionally, that’s when I’d say, “oh crap.” You see, you can have a

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Online TV

I’ve been dabbling with Joost for a few months now (my first mention of it was in May). While I really liked the concept:

All the things you love about TV, fused with all the fun and interactive power of the Internet.

I just haven’t been able to get on board with the implementation. It seems

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