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Thoughts on Steve
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is no longer the same river … and he is no longer the same man.” — Heraclitus
As a professional news writer, I have spent much of the last five days thinking about — and writing about — the death of Steve Jobs. My friends [...]
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A No-Brainer Shortcut for Quickly Creating PDFs
…it sure would be nice to be able to save some time and some mouse clicks each time we want to create a PDF. This month’s tip gives the recipe for a shortcut to do just [...]
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A quick way to speed up Web surfing on all your computers
In every case I’ve seen so far, a quick, easy and free change in the DNS settings of their home Internet router fixes the problem. Switching the router from using the ISPs default DNS service to a faster, more efficient public DNS gives an immediate and noticeable improvement in browsing [...]
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Main Meeting Location – UCF Business Incubator
Location of the Main [...]
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One More Thing …
one thing Steve said that I haven’t so far heard anyone else really pick up on…
by Charles [...]
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Google Fiber – Next Round
By Walt Sellers, on March 7th, 2010
The competition for infrastructure continues.
- Palm Bay, Florida, city officials are gathering information to make a bid for Google Fiber. They are going to hold 2 public forums for gathering their citizens’ ideas on the matter.
- Mayor Kiss of Burlington, Mermont, has been on the news discussing it.
- Flint, in Genesse County, Michigan, is beginning a campaign.
- A group in Baltimore has built a website in which technology company executives are interviewed on video expressing interest and citizens are marking their interest with pins on a map (probably a Google map). They also use a Google Group to coordinate efforts.
- The mayor of Duluth, MN staged an event where he jumped into Lake Superior in a t-shirt and shorts (in that state’s cold weather), as well as being involved in a spoof video on YouTube.
- Topeka, Kansas temporarily renamed itself Google, Kansas.
- Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids,
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Hello! Came across your site during my research, and thought you would be interested that the City of Orlando intends to apply for Google Fiber for Communities. We’re launching a campaign to rally the public support that Google is looking for in potential communities through http://getgoogling.com. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks,
Victoria Shade