Category Archives: Technology

Jump Drives Save Lives [Healthy Bytes]

photo credit: Infidelic Medical News Today carried a story about a program at Ohio State University where doctors are storing large amounts of medical information on secured USB drives for heart surgery patients to carry with them. Should the patient … Continue reading

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Scientists Study Blog Readers, Confirm They Like Reading Blogs

photo credit: e.marie It’s not every day I read a story on blogging when flipping through health and science RSS feeds. The Science Blog and Science Daily have released articles discussing a study conducted at UC Irvine studying “blog readers’ … Continue reading

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Joost invites

Consumerist has a link to GigaOM’s Joost invite page. Let the floodgates open. Surely allowing super-invite tokens like this to hit the web is the last step before Joost opens its doors to the public? Now, to see what this … Continue reading

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Installing Audacity and LAME in one step

A friend recently had an interesting problem – he wants to promote the use of podcasts to instructors as a component of courses taught online, and identified the excellent, open-source Audacity as their Windows tool of choice. However, as he … Continue reading

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Practice safe tax – some tips for safe e-filing and online banking

Tax time is right around the corner, and if you’re like me and 73+ million others, you’ll be filing electronically this year – especially if you qualify for free e-filing.  Before you get started, here are some tips to preventing … Continue reading

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