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Thursday, April 16

Hey! I'm gonna be on Google!

by DavidAkin on Thu 16 Apr 2009 04:03 PM EDT

..as soon as I saw it, I raced ahead of it, got off at the nearest exit -- which happened to be Woodroffe -- and got out my camera, which every good reporter always travels with just in case, and snapped pictures of the Google car taking pictures of me. Now, I just checked and, so far, Google's Street View is not yet available for that section of the 417. Which led me to wonder: A lot of people have written about their concerns about privacy and Google's Street View. Well, what about those of us who want to be on Street View?

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Friday, April 10

Calling all geeks: I'm stumped over weirdly slow performance on my iMac

by DavidAkin on Fri 10 Apr 2009 01:35 PM EDT

Nothing like a long weekend with lots of computer problems to sort out on your homework. Normally, I don't mind sitting down with a cup of joe, some new programs to install, maintenance tasks to oversee and so on. But this morning, I'm stumped over what to do to solve a serious performance problem with my iMac. Can you help? Here's the setup ... Now with an update

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Monday, April 6

Senate agrees to 'Berry and Laptop use

by DavidAkin on Mon 06 Apr 2009 11:22 AM EDT

The Parliamentary Press Gallery has successfully convinced the powers that be in the Senate to allow reporters to use their BlackBerrys and laptop computers in the Red Chamber...

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Sunday, April 5

Calling all G4 Cube owners -- who's upgraded their processor?

by DavidAkin on Sun 05 Apr 2009 07:24 PM EDT

So, before I shell out the dough and crack open the case, anyone out there -- and only 150,000 Cubes were made before Apple discontinued them -- got any experience with this or can point me to some reputable bulletin boards on this subject?... I'm leaning to the 1.5 Ghz processor - as this machine is used at this point for not much more than e-mail, Web surfing and light word pro duties.

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