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May 19 2009

EMC World 2009: Orlando

Published by jon under Technology

Spending this week at EMC World in Orlando. Learned a lot of great stuff about the V-Max, PowerPath, and SMC so far. Right now, I’m hanging out in the Blogger’s Lounge. What a nice place to hang out. Lots of well-known storage bloggers from EMC and elsewhere here. They have [...]

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Mar 12 2009

Google Voice – finally…a GrandCentral upgrade!

Published by jon under Google, Technology

I just read that Google is finally going to release a much-needed update to GrandCentral, which they will call Google Voice. Here are a couple official Google blog entries about it:
Official Google Blog
NEW – Google Voice Blog
I’ve been using GrandCentral for a while, and I love it. I have a virtual phone number [...]

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Jan 12 2009

Google Health – HIPAA exempt

Published by jon under Health, Technology

As a patient of the Cleveland Clinic, I have the option of linking my Cleveland Clinic health records with Google’s (relatively) new Google Health service.  Sounds pretty interesting to me.  Unfortunately, I won’t be trying it out anytime in the near future.  You see, since Google is not a health care provider, they are exempt [...]

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Jan 06 2009

Steve Jobs – Celiac disease?

Published by jon under Technology

Yesterday, Steve Jobs (Apple, Inc. CEO) posted a letter on apple.com about his recent weight loss.  In his letter, Steve stated that there is “a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy.”  He went on to say that “sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.”
Here are [...]

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Sep 16 2008

Esquire e-Ink 75th anniversary magazine

Published by jon under Technology

So I just picked up one of the Esquire 75th anniversary magazines that has an e-Ink display embedded in the cover.  Here are some parts that make up this display:

“qes_x5″ circuit board (I’m guessing this is just the name they chose when designing the board)
(6) CR2016 3V batteries (which appear to be lightly soldered in)
QESA080713 [...]

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Sep 12 2008

New Crocker Park Apple Store opening Saturday, 9/13/08

Published by jon under Technology

For those of you in the Cleveland area, the Apple Store at Crocker Park in Westlake will be having its grand opening on Saturday, 9/13 beginning at 10 AM:
http://www.apple.com/retail/crockerpark/
Here is the address/phone number:
267 Crocker Park Blvd.
Westlake, OH 44145
(440) 788-2800
They’ll be giving out free t-shirts to the first 1,000 people. I’ll try to go and [...]

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Sep 03 2008

Google Chrome

Published by jon under Technology

Google just released an early beta of its new web browser, Chrome. Here is a screenshot of the nice, clean interface:

Some things to be aware of:

It is currently only available for Windows. Mac and/or Linux versions are in the works.
This is an early beta version….not everything will work perfectly.
Be aware of the EULA [...]

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