Vinnys House of Knowledge

If you are like me, your sick of spam, phone calls, and catalogs that you neither want nor requested. Well here are some tips to wipe the slate clean. On a side note, when dealing with corporations, a great resource to bypass automated menus is gethuman.com.
Privacy policies: Each company you deal with has one. [...]

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I have been using Vonage Voice over IP for a few years now. It has saved me hundreds of dollars in un-needed charges from at&t/SBC. The cheapest plan at&t offers is $12 a month for 500 local minutes and no long distance, which is very reasonable. The issue is fees that they charge on top [...]

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I have been using M$ Office 2007 for a couple months now, and my overall impression is that the new features don’t justify a new purchase. Everything has been organized into “ribbons” which are groups of features that Microsoft thinks are the most popular. Having used Office 2003 for years now, the learning curve is [...]

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Surfing the web has become a staple of American society. There are a lot of websites out there that track your browsing habits to give you personalized ads. This is slightly disturbing so here is a quick way to browse anonymously.
A proxy is a special kind of server that takes your web request, and [...]

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It has happened to everyone, your hard drive crashes, a cd-rom breaks, or in the past a floppy has zapped. In the current day there is still a valid reason to back up your data regularly. I will talk about a couple different options so you can see what works best in your situation.
The first [...]

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In a previous article I talk about my Sprint Mogul phone. I have used Google Maps for mobile and TomTom handheld on the phone. Both of them work very well, but they have a few major differences. Read for more info.

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I was traveling quite a bit this year, including a trip to Dubai. I needed a phone and SIM card that will work all over the world. So I stopped by my local at&t store since they have GSM phones, and most of the known world uses GSM (except for Japan and others).
I asked the [...]

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This is a great story I see on the net, wanted to re-post it. Sums up quite a bit about life!
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A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. [...]

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There are now thousands of travel websites on the web. Here are some of the best in my opinion, and how to use them to your advantage.
If you are looking for the best Hotel or Airfare, you can use the newer type search engines. These will scour the web for rates from the airlines own [...]

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I recently upgraded my Palm Treo 650 (read: smashed against wall in fit of dropped call rage) to the new Sprint Mogul from HTC. The model is PPC-6800. The phone runs the new Windows Mobile 6 OS, and has a full slide out keyboard. It is an upgrade to the PPC-6700 model which was very [...]

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