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Dependence on China

May 14th 2010

Try and buy something from Walmart, Target, or Home Depot that isn't made in China. There are some items, but not many. Try buying something from a Dollar Store not made in China.

I bought a pair of cheap throw-away hammers to send to school so the kids could make bird houses. There were "designed and packaged in the USA" but "made in China."

Not a big deal though, since these are all low-end manufacturing jobs that American's won't take the pay for, right? Except it doesn't end there, and there really are no quick easy fixes when there are hiccups in supply chains, especially for technical equipment with hundreds if not thousands of components and dozens if not hundreds of companies involved in making them.

But would could go wrong?

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Dropbox - The must-have online filesharing utility - Making it work on Fedora 12

February 9th 2010

Dropbox is a free online file transfer and storage synchronizing utility, which also optionally allows you to publicly share files and photos. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

To get started with Dropbox, you first need a free account. You can sign-up for Dropbox free here.

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Free Long Distance with Google Voice

February 4th 2010

Are you paying for Long Distance? What would you do if you could call Long Distance for free, any time, as much as you wanted?

I've written about Google Voice in the past, but I wanted to simplify the steps to use Google Voice to make free Long Distance calls for the common-day non-technical person.

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Testing out CellSpin

August 21st 2009

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