Exploring What's Outside The Box
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The monthly Writing Challenge on Twitter is a great community for writers. It’s a place where those of us that write can encouraging one another to keep at it, to keep those words coming, to finish that story. What we sometimes may lose sight of are all the great stories that actually come out of […]
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The society we live in is a fascinating beast. Everything evolves, everything changes, from the work we do to what we do to entertain ourselves. Take books and fiction, for example. When I was growing up, before the age of the Internet (gasp, there was such a time?) when stories were read in books and […]
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Growing up during a time when computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 reigned supreme, I have always had a fondness for the old school games of the 80’s and 90’s, for games produced on limited hardware where the option of adding another gigabyte of memory was not an option. 512K was a lot […]
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You think it’ll never happen to you. Virus, malware, hacks, all that stuff. You’d think I would have learned after one Windows 7 installation was corrupted by viruses. Alas, I didn’t. Two weeks ago, this domain was suspended due to malware. I was surprised but immediately went about trying to fix it. After examining files, […]
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After upgrading my HTC Hero to Android 2.1 recently, one of my first thoughts concerned tethering. Would it still be possible and would it still be easy? Being able to connect to the Internet no matter where you are is very convenient and it was a feature I was hoping would remain. It did […]
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After several years of entertaining on Blogger, I’ve decided to move the blog and give it a proper domain and a slight “name lift.” Going forward, 2Tall Tales will be known as Tall Tech Tales and will be located at : http://www.talltechtales.com All entries from here have been transferred but until the search engines catch […]
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I guess it was just a matter of time before LeBron would appear on Twitter. With his free-agent status and so many rumors flying around about this man, I’m frankly surprised he hasn’t joined the band wagon already. After all, there are plenty of other people that I’d say are less famous that have more […]
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As announced last week, Alaskan wireless carriers ACS and GCI today made the Android 2.1 upgrade available for their respective customers to download through their websites. Before jumping on the bandwagon, you may want to ask “what’s new” and is the upgrade worth it? According to ACS, these are some of the things you’ll find […]
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Google Voice was made available to all interested parties this past week, giving all of those interested in it a chance to try it out. No more need to request and invite, no more waiting for the eventual invite to arrive. Alas, many smaller regional carriers, such as those here in Alaska, are not on […]
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Alaska has had a busy couple of days with multiple carriers announcing the release of additional Android phones as well as the Android 2.1 update coming next week. As if that was not enough, GCI goes ahead and announced the impending availability of the Blackberry Storm 2 for the Alaskan market. We have another exciting […]
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