In a few shorts steps you can add a calendar like the one below to your desktop (OS X only).
Author: Aaron Nelsen
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Adding a calendar to your desktop
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Streaming TV Shows
Here’s a quick break down of major TV networks that allow users to stream (with commercial interruption) their TV shows. So now you can legally catch up on your favorite TV shows.
Of course on the not so legal side of things, you have such resources as…
But you didn’t hear that from me.
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Xbox 360 Wireless on the Cheap
David Peralty over at GeeksAreSexy has a nifty how to for making a wireless adapter for your Xbox 360.
Parts Needed:
- Xbox 360, any version
- Three Feet or more of Cat 5e Cable (Ethernet Cable)
- Wireless Router
- DD-WRT firmware
It’s pretty simple looking, full details can be found here.
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70% of computer repair companies don’t know jack
While it may not be the companies themselves that are complete morons and rather their employees, they still hired them and should be held responsible.
CBC Marketplace conducted a sting of 10 different computer companies and found that only three of them correctly diagnosed the problem.
In the interview a former employee of a large computer repair company states that they were always encouraged to sell upgrades, I used to work for a local computer repair company, and I can vouch for this… my boss wanted me to “up sell” every appointment by $200… which is ridiculous when their problem is as simple as plugging their computer back in, or disabling a startup item. He even went as far as to recommend that if I fixed the problem in under in hour, that I should continue to pretend the problem was still their until after the second hour started (since his company billed for an hour even if you were only 15 minutes into the hour). Needless to say, I didn’t work there long.
Video and link after the jump…
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The Market is Up
The Dow closed at 14,087.55 today, which is a smashing start to the month of October. But will it stay above 14,000 for long? I highly doubt it. Even if you don’t follow the market you’ll probably remember the buzz the Dow generated when it touched on 14,000 briefly in July, only to drop below 13,000 during August. And now the housing market is in shambles, banks are facing huge declines in earnings, and we’re quickly approaching the 20th anniversary of the market crash of 1987.
Interestingly, on the day that investors are celebrating the surging Dow, people are remembering the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. People, though, shouldn’t avoid the markets just because times are uncertain. MarketWatch points out that “$10,000 invested in the Dow on Friday, Oct. 16, the last trading day before the crash, and held until the present would still have more than quintupled.”
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview that there was less than a 50-50 chance that the US economy would slip into a recession, he also believes that the current credit slump may be ending.
Is the worst behind us, or is it yet to come? Thoughts, anyone?