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Social Networking to Drive Traffic to Your Website

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You can use Facebook and Twitter to drive traffic to your website.  More traffic can translate into more business.  And more business means more money.  And that’s good, right! As part of your service from Techadvocate Solutions, a “Share/Save” feature has been installed on your WordPress website/blog.  You will notice the “Share/Save” icon as the end of each post.  This … [Read more...] about Social Networking to Drive Traffic to Your Website

What Are We Looking For…on the Web

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What are you looking for on the Web?  It tells a lot about who we as a culture. It is the time of year when the big search engines release the top searches for 2010.  The first out the gate is Yahoo.  Google (the big kid on the search engine block) will release their top searches for the year later in December (for a more accurate tally). Here are top 10 searches for 2010 … [Read more...] about What Are We Looking For…on the Web

Invasion of the Body Scanners in a Facebook World

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Everybody is so concerned about airport body scanners invading their privacy.  So what do people do – start Facebook pages protesting these devices.  Here’s my question – if these people are so concerned about privacy then what are they doing on Facebook?  Does anyone else see the irony? It just seems weird to complain about privacy on the place where people post every gory … [Read more...] about Invasion of the Body Scanners in a Facebook World

Refurb PC and Mac

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In today's market there are a lot of good deals on refurbished machines.  Here are two good refurb deals - one PC and one Mac. HP Compaq DC7700 Desktop Computer - Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz, 2GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, Combo, Windows XP Pro 32-bit (Off-Lease) List Price:             $329.99 Instant Savings:  -$80.02 Price:                     $249.97 Click Here to Order Apple iMac … [Read more...] about Refurb PC and Mac

Scary Smartphone Zombies – My PRECIOUS

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Scary Smartphone zombies are everywhere.  They walk aimlessly down the street without emotion, their eyes transfixed on their PRECIOUS. Much like Gollum thought the ring made him powerful, they think their Smartphone gives them power by connecting them to others, but it really just makes them invisible to the real world.  Their PRECIOUS Smartphone is turning them into … [Read more...] about Scary Smartphone Zombies – My PRECIOUS

Robot Pop Star

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Watch Out Justin and Miley, the latest sensation is a robot pop star. So here she is – the HRP-4C sings and dances in sync with live, human background performers. She really works the crowd with those over-sized robot hands.  At first I though the man-hands were creepy.  But as the show progressed I found them almost hypnotic, which is well…kinda creepy.  (Grin) Hey, … [Read more...] about Robot Pop Star

Lenovo Laptop Deal

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If your laptop is outdated or trying to get a jump on Holiday shopping, here is a great deal. Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 0199-23U Laptop Computer - AMD Turion II Dual-Core P520 2.30GHz, 4GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, DVDRW, 14" Display, HDMI, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Black List Price:                  $799.99 Instant Savings:     $300.00 Price:                         $499.99 Click on … [Read more...] about Lenovo Laptop Deal

TV to Entertain, Internet to Interact

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As TV moves to the digital world will it be displaced by the Internet, the ruler of the digital realm?  I don't think so.  Here's why. As the boob-tube moves digital it will become more feature rich with things like HDTV and the how-did-we-live-without-it DVR.  And TV will more off the wall and into your hand.   The digital migration means the devices we use for TV … [Read more...] about TV to Entertain, Internet to Interact