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Comment on How to Create a Google+ Short URL for Promotion! by Walter Szymanski

Walter Szymanski — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:36:11 +0000

I’ve lost track of my gplus.to shortened Google+ url. How do I pull that shortened url up (so I can safely file it away) and use it?

Comment on Watch “Casablanca” Tonight on Facebook by Bruce R. (BPR639geek)

Bruce R. (BPR639geek) — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:36 +0000

Cool!!!

Comment on Samsung Galaxy Note Review – Phone + Tablet = Awesome! by John P.

John P. — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:27:50 +0000

You’re right Felipe, and I was only joking about that. I kid about that kind of thing a lot, especially on G+ and Twitter, but I don’t actually drive around texting. I prefer to live.

John P.

Comment on Samsung Galaxy Note Review – Phone + Tablet = Awesome! by Felipe Baez

Felipe Baez — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:47:56 +0000

You say that is difficult texting when you’re driving. You’re not supposed to be texting while you’re driving!! That’s dangerous for you and for people around. i believe we all have the responsibility to preach the best practices in Technology usage, also WHEN to use it.

Comment on Amped Wireless R20000G High-Power Dual Band Router Has Wi-Fi in Large Houses Covered by Jack Kessler

Jack Kessler — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:13:53 +0000

Could it be a coincidence that the people who tell you to secure your router so none of your neighbors use it, are the very same people who make tons of money selling your neighbors routers because they can’t use yours?

Do any of the folks who make themselves feel important by intoning ‘security’ all the time, actually have examples of where anybody has been able to break an encrypted signal (such as almost every web merchant has) and stolen anything by doing it?

Comment on Amped Wireless R20000G High-Power Dual Band Router Has Wi-Fi in Large Houses Covered by I could use one of these. | Christopher Knopick | Christopher Knopick

I could use one of these. | Christopher Knopick | Christopher Knopick — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:11:06 +0000

[...] Amped Wireless R20000G High-Power Dual Band Router Has Wi-Fi in Large Houses Covered Amped Wireless has a new option for bringing Wi-Fi to large homes or offices. The R20000G is a high-power Wireless-N dual band router with an advertised coverage area of up to 10,000 square feet. [...]

Comment on Amped Wireless R20000G High-Power Dual Band Router Has Wi-Fi in Large Houses Covered by Mike Mathews

Mike Mathews — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:48:35 +0000

Forgot to mention, you can get more detail on the WPS problem from conversations and research Steve Gibson hosted at GRC.som – https://www.grc.com/search.htm?cx=000064552291181981813%3Ay8yi5go2xza&cof=FORID%3A11&q=wps&sa.x=0&sa.y=0

Comment on Amped Wireless R20000G High-Power Dual Band Router Has Wi-Fi in Large Houses Covered by Mike Mathews

Mike Mathews — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:46:36 +0000

This sounds pretty nice as the features go, but the real question is whether the one-touch WPS security is handled any better than the rest of the lame router market. The specs I could find did not have enough detail to get a good answer, but it would be nice to know if Amped at least included a way to turn off WPS, since it represents such a huge hole in network security.

Comment on Samsung Galaxy Note Review – Phone + Tablet = Awesome! by Jomichael Porter

Jomichael Porter — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:23:41 +0000

But can it fit in the front pocket of your jeans? This seems to do so many things that I need in a smartphone, but if I can’t easily carry it in my pocket everywhere, its utility falls so much as to be nearly pointless.

Comment on How To Shrink JPEG File Size Without Losing Quality by AP

AP — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:01:32 +0000

You can do all those optimizations by yourself with one command line tool : jpegtran (working on Linux, MacOS and Windows).

A little “command line magic” is involved but it’s very simple. See by yourself :
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/batch-optmize-jpeg-images-using-jpegtran/

Comment on YouTube Playlist – Crazy Drivers Caught on Tape! by Wildmax

Wildmax — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:29:12 +0000

That one with the 20 point turn in the parking lot, looks too fake. There are times the car stops and pauses with little or no inertia, it looks like some really badly written AI. Though from what I have seen from other drivers it is possible that this is real (**).

Comment on How To Shrink JPEG File Size Without Losing Quality by Maki

Maki — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:43:38 +0000

The sound is faulty. I can hear it but it’s not good.