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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Jul 17, 2007
Holy cow, I just found the coolest software application that is going to save me at least 8 hours each month and immeasurable amounts of aggravation...and it's fun to use, too!
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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Jun 10, 2007
Today I'm in my car traveling to Kalamazoo for a graduation party. As I'm writing this, we're driving past mile marker 122 on I-69 (my wife is driving). But the fact that I'm posting this live while in the car isn't even the cool part.
While we've been driving, I've updated the bios and latest firmware on a new Intel server that's sitting in a rack in our Utica office. I've also just started installing the operating system. I've done this all without having to be in the same room, or even the same county, as the server.
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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Jun 6, 2007
Last week I told you about a nifty site called PriceProtectr.com. It's just darn cool, as it proved again today:
Price Protectr saw a price drop on the LaCie 500 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche (301103U) you submitted for price protection at www.priceprotectr.com.You purchased the item for $163.84 and it just dropped to $128.99! The item URL is:
http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-External-Design-Porsche-301103U/dp/B000H6CBA4/ref=sr_1_1/002-7319366-9344843?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1180559675&sr=8-1
Please verify the item and price, and review the retailer's price protection policy before requesting a refund.
It's like getting free money. How fun!
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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on May 28, 2007
I purchased a book from Amazon.com two weeks ago. I read it, liked it and bought several additional copies to give to friends. Last week, Amazon dropped the price $3.00. Thanks to www.priceprotectr.com, I learned about the price drop and was able to get my $9.00 credit using Amazon's Price Protection guarantee.
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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Feb 21, 2007
My Outlook .PST file is approximately 4GB, and my archive .PST files are roughly 2GB each. I've upgraded the hard drive in my ThinkPad three times and am currently at a 100GB drive and until this morning, I had only 6GB of free space. Rather than buy another new hard drive, I decided to see how much data I could clean off this drive since I knew that I had gigabytes worth of trialware downloads, temporary video files, digital photos and other data that I no longer need. Unfortunately, quickly & easily finding the files & folders that would free the most space after deleting was my challenge - until I discovered DiskView.
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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Dec 6, 2006
Others I know in the I.T. industry tell me at least once a month how much better a deal I could get if I bought Dell (or Acer, Toshiba, Sony, etc.) notebooks for our company rather than IBM ThinkPads. But I wonder if today I would've felt that a cheaper price was really a better deal?
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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Aug 26, 2006
Today I hung a 38" x 38" framed picture in less than 30 seconds without nails, screws, a hammer or drill.
The Monkey Hook's design simplicity results in a very user friendly picture hanging experience.
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