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4 Free Must Have Android Apps for Sysadmins

May 15, 2010
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System Administrators/Engineers have a lot of responsibilities. The top priority is uptime. There are a number of tools we rely on that help us stay on top of our networks health but we can’t always have a laptop/netbook strapped to our chest. Now these days we can do a lot of things on our [...]

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How to Calibrate your Macbook Battery on the Quick

January 3, 2010
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Don’t you love it when you get a new laptop and less than a year later when you are running on juice instead of the 2.5 hours you are suppose to have magically turns into 30 minutes?  Well as I was studying for my A+ certification (which I need to take soon) I came up [...]

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Google Chrome OS: The Video Demo

November 19, 2009
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Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security… Blah Blah Blah here is the video:

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Stick with XP? Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks

November 13, 2009
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K. T. Bradford over at Laptop Mag reports :
Back in August when we started testing the final version of Windows 7, we noticed that several netbooks didn’t last as long on a charge with the new OS installed as with Windows XP. Microsoft claimed that Win 7 notebooks would see longer battery life than Vista, [...]

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Get Google Maps Navigation on Your T-Mobile G1

November 12, 2009
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Kevin Purdy over at LifeHacker found a cool little hack for all of you T-Mobile G1 owners!
Google’s awe-inducing, turn-by-turn Maps Navigation is exclusive to Verizon’s Droid phone—unless you’re willing to hack around with your G1. With either some command-line-fu or a two-part Windows application, you can put Google Maps Navigation on a rooted G1.By “rooted,” [...]

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Verizon confirms Droid tethering option, hefty price tag

November 5, 2009
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Verizon has confirmed that customers will have the option of connecting a laptop to their new Motorola Droid smartphones, on sale tomorrow, using the phone as a wireless modem. The carrier won’t say exactly when customers can do this tethering but they are exact about what it will cost: typically, an extra $30 per month, [...]

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Top 10 BlackBerry Apps For SMBs

November 4, 2009
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While most of the 32 million Blackberry users come from the business world, BlackBerry adoption is now hovering 50-50 between enterprises and what RIM calls “non-enterprise” users, such as consumers, pro-sumers, and small businesses.
That has greatly expanded the range of what people are doing with their Blackberries. So while the 7-month-old Blackberry App World now [...]

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Greetings Earthlings, Soonr for Android is here

November 4, 2009
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Today Soonr announced the widespread availability of Soonr for Android available in the Android Marketplace. There has been a huge ground swell of support for the Android SmartPhone operating system. Last week Motorola announced the “Droid” phone that they will be launching in conjunction with Verizon wireless, the largest carrier in the USA. This is [...]

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Smartphones Getting Less Expensive

November 3, 2009
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Within 5 years, 45% of smartphones will hit the market for less than $200 with a new contract, according to data from ABI Research.
It may soon be easier for consumers and businesses to buy smartphones, according to a study from ABI Research that said the retail cost will continue to go down. The report, “Smartphone [...]

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