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HiYo Instant Messenger Addon

Until recently I tried to give Instant Messengers a wide berth as I found it really distracting getting pinged constantly by dozens of people in some instances I barely knew. But after clearing out a lot of contacts I’ve started using MSN Messenger again. I use MSN Messenger rather than AOL or Yahoo! [...]

Everton | June 27th, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

Finally Finished My Home Move

After one of the longest home purchases ever thanks to the difficulty in getting mortgages at the moment, I finally moved into my new home last Monday.  Packing for the move and unpacking after the move effectively took me out of action every evening for the last two weeks as I couldn’t get the time [...]

Everton | June 23rd, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

The Difference Between Houses And Homes

A home is not a mere transient shelter: it’s essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken

Michael Lankton | June 11th, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

LG KF600 Mobile Phone - Not A Chip Off The Old Block

Just before Christmas LG sent me a LG Viewty to review, which I thoroughly loved. So much in fact, that I decided to keep it in the family and my girlfriend is currently giving it a good home.
A few months ago LG asked me to review the LG KF600 and sent me a handset [...]

Everton | May 27th, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Can You Hear The Difference Between A 128 And 320 kbps MP3 File?

I’ve just found a great page that plays an MP3 encoded at both 128kbps and 320kbps and challenges listeners to spot the better quality file. It’s an interesting test, and it’ll be interesting to see if Connected Internet readers can spot the difference. Don’t forget to come back and let other readers know [...]

Everton | May 25th, 2008 | Continued

About Site

Connected Internet was launched in 2005 by Everton Blair, initially as an experiment to test blogging platforms for potential launch to my ISP customers. Before, Everton knew it he was hooked, and what was originally a professional assessment became a serious hobby.
The blog is now put together by a team of authors, led by Everton, [...]

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How HP Makes You a Math Whiz

I know quite a number of CPAs who’ve already forgotten their multiplication table. I also know some engineers and architects (like myself) who labor at quick mental math.
Quick! What’s 3928.7 + 9209.2?
If you’re like me, it may have taken sometime to crunch those figures in your head. The more decimal points, the tougher. And don’t [...]

6Jul2008 | Joseph Plazo | 1 comment | Continued
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Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon

I used to rely on Norton’s Speed Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and Diskeeper to optimize my HDD. Defragmenting is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on the disk. Many still believe that defragmenting hard disk drives on a regular basis [...]

3Jul2008 | Joseph Plazo | 13 comments | Continued
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Vengeful Spirits

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

2Jul2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued
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EA Sports Press Release Confirms 250 Changes In FIFA 09

EA Sports’ latest press release has just confirmed that FIFA 09 will have the 250 previously mentioned changes.
The press release is followed by a few new FIFA Soccer 09 screen shots and four fact sheet which I will be releasing the next couple of days.
You can read the entire FIFA 09 press release here.

1Jul2008 | Dennis Bjørn Petersen | 0 comments | Continued
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Do Your Arms Creak From Your Laptop

Mine does. I use a rather weighty weighty Presario Core2Duo clocked at 2Ghz. It does everything I want it to do- from webmastering to multiple image editing and the occasional architectural drafting on AutoCad 2007. There’s just one hitch. It’s heavy as hell. To make matters worse, it’s battery conks at 1.5hours so lugging along [...]

30Jun2008 | Joseph Plazo | 7 comments | Continued
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Mystery of the Disappearing DVD-ROM

Three weeks ago, I installed a spanking brand new LG DVD-Burner as an adjunct to my existing ASUS drive. The device was a dream! I burnt piles of DVDs daily with nary a hitch. Not a single platter ended up wasted. And even better- entire 1GB zip files get transferred in seconds.
Then [...]

30Jun2008 | Joseph Plazo | 3 comments | Continued
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Feedback: Microsoft and Yahoo, Round 2

Back in February I talked about Microsoft’s attempt to absorb Yahoo. Ultimately the deal with Yahoo fell through, Yahoo rejecting the $33/share a price that Microsoft was putting on the table.

25Jun2008 | Michael Lankton | 5 comments | Continued
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Flashback: Internet Relay Chat

Usenet is dead. It withered in the face of competition from web forums, mailing lists and blog comments, and to an extent, BitTorrent. It didn’t help that by the end most of usenet had degenerated into a useless free-for-all where socially inept malcontents trolled and flamed, with little else going on by the end. With [...]

24Jun2008 | Michael Lankton | 2 comments | Continued
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