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This is awesome. It’s a Mac vs PC video making fun of how the pre-installed software bloats the PCs.

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The site’s been up for almost a week now, and I’ve been letting it slip out here and there to see what happens. I was going to wait until next week to make an official announcement, but here it is: www.pcdecrapifier.com.
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This was pretty cool. I was asked to do an interview for the Computer America radio show last Monday (April 9th, 2007.) I was waiting for the podcast to become available so I could listen to it first before posting this… just in case I sounded like a total dork. Perhaps I may have chosen to neglect to mention it. But, I thought it went really well and had a great time.
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Although I was diligent to update my Pocket PC for the new Daylight Savings Time, I failed to update my KnoppMyth MythTV box. Fortunately, I didn’t miss any recordings. Here’s my update instructions.
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Here’s a nice little Bluetooth GPS that I picked up on a great deal over at Geeks.com. I’ve been keeping an eye out for one for awhile and this came up with the features I wanted at the right price. For $40 I really couldn’t go wrong. Read on for the review.
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Microsoft today released a patch for Windows Mobile to update for the the 2007 Daylight Savings time changes that go into effect in March. Here’s how my update went. I thought it would be very simple, but leave it to Microsoft to over complicate things and screw it up.
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Ok, here’s another go at the Vista thing. The 1.7.1 beta works, but you have to explicitly tell it to run as administrator. I also found this other article on the AutoIT website that allows you to add a directive so that the user will be prompted for administrative privileges.
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I’ve had some reports that the Decrapifier doesn’t work under Vista, so I’ve rebuilt it with the latest version of AutoIT. This should allow it to run. I don’t actually have Vista yet myself, so I haven’t tested it. If you’ve got Vista and want to see if it works, please check out the download page and let me know how it goes. Thanks.
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I’ll warn you up front this is mostly a rant, but if you use AT&T calling cards, you’ll want to pay attention. Back in 2005 I couldn’t believe that the FCC would approve the merger of AT&T and SBC, but they did. Then, just recently, they approved the merger of AT&T and Bell South. Uh, is it just me or does anyone remember the reason why we had all of the “Baby Bell” companies to begin with? It hasn’t been that long, really. It’s because they were a monopoly and they got away with whatever they wanted!
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Hope you all had a Happy Holiday. With the new year, comes new crap to remove from PCs, which means a new version of the PC Decrapifier.
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