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The coolest mouse you’ll never use

By Jim Edwards • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: Tid bytes

The Asus MS71 wireless mouse has a killer feature! the receiving unit acts as a flash drive also…Cool you think? Well it would be if it wasn’t the most uncomfortable worst form factor ever created! Well the idea is solid perhaps someone will take this idea and actually make it useful!
Image from newlaunches.com



Exchange Killer enters beta

By Jim Edwards • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: Tid bytes

PC world reported Sunday that Unison has come out with what maybe a true Exchange killer.  Officially entering beta now it touts not only the Server side but the client side application for Windows XP.  Unison will focus on organziation sized between the 20 - 300 mark and will deal with email, instant messaging, and [...]



Guvf fvgr jvyy uryc lbh ybbx zber yvxr n trrx!

By Jim Edwards • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: Tid bytes

No your browser isn’t tweaking out! I said Guvf fvgr jvyy uryc lbh ybbx zber yvxr n trrx! looking for a simple way to ensure that no one knows what your talking about (as if being an IT person didn’t already make that happen)
Take a look at rot13.com where you can convert text by rotating [...]



Obsolete Skills

By Jim Edwards • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Tid bytes

In an ever changing world it’s important to keep your skills up so that you don’t become obsolete, no profession knows this better then IT.  So to make sure you haven’t become obsolute, take a look at this list from ObsoleteSkills.com
It’s too bad I was getting really good at calculating THAC0 in my head….



Secret Apple Event

By Jim Edwards • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: Tid bytes

Looks like Apple is planning something big for later this month that will involve Linkin Park!  Having a band at an announcment feels very MacWorld-ish, it makes ya wonder how big this announcement might be, and more importantly, what project failed to meet it’s MacWorld deadline? I’m betting on some major mojo and multi-touch pad functionality [...]