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17 May 2012 0 Comments

Apple wins iPhone5.com domain

After placing a claim placed with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Apple has won the web domain iPhone5.com from a small independent online forum. The forum is now gone, and the WHOIS domain information points to some new holding company, likely hired by Apple. Of course, this is no guarantee that the next iOS smartphone [...]

14 May 2012 0 Comments

Global shares fall as deepening Greek turmoil weighs

By Chikako Mogi | Reuters – 26 mins ago TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares fell on Monday after weekend talks to form a new Greek government failed and China‘s latest move to loosen monetary policy highlighted concerns its economy is faltering, prompting investors to further trim their exposure to risk. MSCI‘s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside [...]

10 May 2012 0 Comments

Surprising Uses of Everyday Foods

Food is necessary to fuel our bodies, but sometimes we buy too much of it at the grocery store. When your produce starts to go bad, or when you’ve kept those spices around for just a bit too long, or when you thought you’d make a recipe out of all of those ingredients but just [...]

7 May 2012 0 Comments

Filmmaking Crew Breakdown – the Gaffer

Throughout my time teaching the art of acting and the business of filmmaking to aspiring actors, I’ve developed an affinity to educate actors about the various crew members of a standard film set. While some actors feel that this information is useless, I firmly believe that in order to become a successful film actor you [...]

3 May 2012 0 Comments

Kids Don’t Have to Ruin Your Marriage

If you are one of those people who grew up not sure if you’d ever want kids, and now you find yourself married to the perfect spouse and thinking children might be in your not-so-distant future, you are not alone. If you are worried that having these kids will ruin your marriage, you are not [...]

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30 April 2012 0 Comments

Without Thy Ornamentation

Kin, shall I beseech thee to introspect thy sentient precedent, Or shall I inquire about thy vernal redresses? Without thy ornamentation, the persona that thou don, Wouldst thou have words of substance Or beguile thy brother with prattle And relapse into variegated sedentation? Hast thy brumal sleeps rendered thee torpid Or does thou doff more [...]

26 April 2012 0 Comments

Dane-Elec USB 2 Memory

This may not be a problem at all if the device still functions as normal… A card reader and a USB stick are both “removable storage” devices. Could be that the stick is configured for some reason to register as a reader. Can you access the flash drive? Tech Support Guy Forums – Hardware

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23 April 2012 0 Comments

U.S. Manufacturers Seen Bringing Production Facilities Back to America

After decades of sending jobs and production facilities to China and other nations with cheap, abundant labor, many top U.S. companies are now looking homeward for cheap labor and lower production costs. With record unemployment and a stagnant economy, the cost of labor in the U.S. has become much more competitive with those in emerging [...]

16 April 2012 0 Comments

Goodreads

Goodreads.com is a website for book lovers everywhere. If you love to read, and if you love social networking, you should check out Goodreads. The website marries social networking and books in such a way that makes your friends’ reading progress easy to follow and makes it simpler than ever to find your next reading [...]

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12 April 2012 0 Comments

Are Academic Competitions a Thing of the Past?

I just found out that two of my kids have won prizes in the annual writing contest sponsored by our local Friends of the Library organization. This was their second year to enter and second year to win. We will be attending the awards ceremony at the end of the month, and I am reminded [...]