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Sites that I found interesting for August 30th 2009 through September 2nd 2009:

• Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage – How to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep costs low.
• Freeware Files: Turn your PC to Self-Cleaning Mode, and More! – Handy list of free tools for the PC. A couple I hadn't seen before.
• RVU Alliance Aims to Take Over Your Home – What if the next time you called DirecTV, the service tech didn’t bring a set top box but a server and several thin clients? And what if this server would allow you to watch live premium HD content as well as recorded TV, videos and movies from your PCs and possibly content from the internet?

Sites that I found interesting for June 24th 2009 through June 25th 2009:

• DIM: Digital Image Mover – DIM only does one thing, but it does it well: it copies files from your camera’s memory card to a destination directory determined by your storage scheme. If any directories need to be created in the process, it will create them. In addition, the file can be renamed while it is copied to a more “useful” name than your camera might have provided.
• Major features of each Windows 7 version (SKU) revealed – via @joshpollard on Twitter
• Let's make the web faster – Google Code – Plugin for firebug on Firefox. via @nrek on twitter

Sites that I found interesting for May 20th 2009 through May 25th 2009:

• AT&T tips 32GB iPhone 3G through BlackBerry trade-in program – As part of AT&T’s efforts to get the BlackBerry Bold in as many hands as possible, the carrier has posted an as-yet non-existent 32GB iPhone 3G as being worth $355 when traded-in for a BlackBerry Bold.
• Kyocera Brings Solar to Prius Rooftops – Kyocera has won a deal to supply Toyota with solar panels for the new Prius.
• MediaInfo – Get technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files. Supported formats : – Video : AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/… – Audio : MP3/OGG/MKA/MP4/AAC/…

Sites that I found interesting for May 6th 2009 through May 8th 2009:

• With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). Provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. via @CantonDog on Twitter
• TweetMyPC – TweetMyPC lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely. via @isdixonon Twitter
• Using Saved Searches To Optimize Your FriendFeed Experience – Saved searches allow you to customize by user, subject, likes, comments, service, ect and really make FriendFeed work for you and bring the information you are looking for. via @jeffisageek

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee