Ex president George W. Bush is on facebook. He decided to embrace social media and take the plunge. It triggered a huge flurry of people joining the page, as at Yesterday In around 15 hours, a total of two updates have spawned more than 2,900 reactions, and the page has been Liked by more than 57,000 people.
I can’t wait for for him to make a few updates himself, it is sure to be hilarious!! Go Go George!!
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This via [Lifehacker]. I rather interesting and thorough article on the debate on whether it’s better to shutdown your Laptop, or put it to Sleep. Measurements we’re made and tests results displayed. Results are surprising.
Always take into consideration factors like the time you are putting your laptop to sleep, versus shutting it down and turning it on again, and the age of the battery. Personally I Hibernate. This makes my start-up time a blast, and I don’t have to worry about a laptop being in Sleep, with the HD still running and me bashing or accidentally bumping the laptop and damaging it.
The choice is yours…choose wisely.
Existing in this day and age, means to have lots and lots of passwords. It is crazy I tell you. I get so confused with all the passwords I have, for all my e-mamil accounts, Internet Banking, Log on passwords, access passwords, PIN’s, etc. It is easy to stand in front of the ATM and be completely blank.. staring at the keypad like you are having a stroke or something. To get past this problem, there are countless of password managers available. But… if you are like 95% of the people out there, chances are you are using the same password for most of the places that requires a password. This is a huge risk, if your password leaks.
So here is a great solution that you can try. Change your password by shifting your left hands one keystroke to the right as you type. For example: If your password is “password”,by shifting your fingers on the keyboard one keystroke to the right, the password now becomes: [sddeptd
Pretty cool hey! I am going to give this a try.
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I consider myself to be an early adopter. That is when it comes to anything online..or tech related. I remember my first Facebook account years and years ago before the world had ever heard of Facebook, back then I still thought Tumblr would become what Facebook has. I remember my first Twitter account, I remember the first Gmail invite I got, one of the lucky few… I remember playing with Windows 7 Beta when Vista was still giving it’s issues (before the patch/Spack).
What are the advantages of being an early adopter? Well.. companies who are early adopters (Have a look at Starbucks and how they are reaping the benefits of being an early adopter) easily reap the big buck rewards later on.
Sadly there’s no financial benefit if you are early adopters on our own, apart from helping friends and family setup the things which you did years ago…
But I simply cannot understand how people can STILL work with IE6, and a 800×600 resolution, purely because they are afraid of change.
Embrace change!! It’s the only certain thing in this life!
When it comes to Technology, and gadgets, its a little bit of a different story. Being an early adopter requires money. so that explains why it’s not so easy being an early adopter that owns every new gadget. As a matter of fact, I have examples where I use a very old piece of tech, but I must say that has nothing to do with money…or adopting… but purely because of my love for that specific piece of tech.
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via [TUAW] I love stories like these!! when technology comes to the rescue! Dan Woolley of Colorado Springs was caught in the collapse of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He then used a Medical-App on the phone to get an indication on how to treat and identify the seriousness of injuries he sustained to his head and leg.
He was trapped for 65 hours under the rubble before rescuers found him.
I bet he didn’t expect that he would actually USE the app to this extent when he downloaded it.
I want an iPhone!!!! Or shall I get my hands on the Nexus somehow?
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