We Love You! We’re thinking of you, and holding you in our hearts… Not just today, but Always… We are more than friends… We are family… and even though we may not see each other, or even speak on the phone, for long periods of time… KNOW that we are holding you in our hearts [...]
Archive for December, 2006
The Bruce Wagner Show – a Status Update
Posted: December 23, 2006 in Bruce & Ed Live from New York, El Show de Edward GelWe’ve been working very hard this past three weeks — nearly around the clock — on the new website… Although I’m not a professional web designer… We just wanted it to be simple and functional… Sort of like Google’s main search page… Simple. But, of course, as we got into it… We kept thinking of [...]
Digital Camera University says that you can take better portraits (that is, pictures of people’s faces) if you turn your digital camera upside down. Why? It has to do with the location of the flash: Since it’s mounted above the lens it creates slight shadows by the way the light bounces off the lines on [...]
From Yahoo News, comes… Ads Masked as Bloggers New Online Marketing Ploy and Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored Posts and… Just for the record…Even though I often write about products and services that I love… or don’t love… No Posts on THIS blog… Bruce’s Journal… will ever be Paid-for. I think it is deceptive and fraudulent [...]
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83% of Videos Downloaded from Illegal P2P Sites
Posted: December 20, 2006 in Consumer Issues, Life, TechnologyFive out of six videos downloaded from the Internet come from illegal peer-to-peer web sites, an ominous sign for an entertainment industry spending big on video download technology. See full article from today’s New York Post. To see how everyone is doing it, check out How to Download Everything You Want for Free. ~ Click [...]
Use your own telephone number to make and recieve calls — on any computer anywhere in the world — simply by plugging the little USB thingy… into the USB port! And your headset is plugged into the USB thingy… Vonage now comes on a 256MB Flash Drive Phone Adapter… Vonage Talk software is preloaded — [...]
Warning: Mature Content The one question couples always forget to ask each other… when they begin to get serious in a relationship… Watch this video Alone – PRIVATELY! As a Bonus… The soundtrack is a very catchy tune… You’ll be humming it all day long… If you liked that video, there are more here. If [...]
SOMETHING IS WRONG with the page rendering on del.icio.us now. Ever since thier server upgrade yesterday, my del.icio.us pages do not form correctly. Instead of the tags all appearing in a shaded area on the right of the page… The tags all are listed in one long column on the left side… And only at [...]
Why why why why why….. Could SOMEONE please tell me why….. In this, the 21st Century…. In the richest nation the world has ever seen…. Why do we put up with “cable companies” who schedule a “window of time” for you to take half the day off work… Only to receive a phone call half way [...]
What type of RSS Feed would you like today? Do you understand what all of these are for? Originally, as the story goes… RSS stood for “Really Simple Syndication”… However, if it was ever simple… RSS is far from simple today… Each of our shows have their own podcast… and each podcast has its own RSS feed… [...]
Found some very interesting new Market Research on Online Advertising for audio and video online content.
Two new movies are among the funniest movies we’ve EVER seen… One is just out on DVD…. The other one is in theaters now… You don’t need to be gay to laugh your you-know-what off…. at the insane hilarity of Another Gay Movie…. It’s very adult humor…. But our straightest friends almost died laughing… It’s [...]
A video reminder from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office How thieves are on a rampage of hitting cars at gas stations, without the owners’ even noticing… Keep everything locked-up at all times! Click here to see the video: http://tinyurl.com/y24rac
Following is an email I sent to a Linux advocate whose article I read on the web…. ~~~~~ After reading your article, Feature specification: “Promote Linux on Public Domains” …. I have a couple of comments. The points that your girlfriend makes are VERY VALID… Linux needs to become as easy to use as Windows [...]
In keeping with the idea of this blog being sort of a Diary, or Journal, containing all sorts of my random thoughts, musings, etc… Mobile Blogging really makes that easy for me to do… Mobile Blogging is the ability to make blog entries directly from your mobile phone. I used that feature a few times [...]
This may seem like a very odd question… Much like: “Does the refrigerator light really go off when I close the door?” But… Does my optical mouse stay on 24/7? I mean… I can be away from home all day… and 10 hours later, I just barely touch the mouse — without clicking it — [...]
I know… That title sounds like something from the latest Memorable Quotes from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan page… But, no… This item is no joke… I was just browsing around the world of blogs and came across this post on a feminist’s blog site. Apparently, she wrote [...]
Ouch! Even after completely Quiting the Skype program — the NEW RELEASE, Version 3.0 — and I do mean Exit-ing the program COMPLETELY… not just minimizing it… or hiding it… A process called SkypePM.exe is CONTINUING to take up 40-50% of my CPU cyles…. and this is on a 3.20 GHz DUAL-CORE Intel Pentium (VIIV) [...]
If something goes wrong while installing Skype, you might get this oddly vague error message: “The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program.“ This has happened to me once before, on a previous version. And again on this new version 3.0… No matter how many times you try to “obtain [...]
Skype 3.0 for Windows is Official Release Today
Posted: December 15, 2006 in Bruce & Ed Live from New York, El Show de Edward GelWe’ve been so impressed with the new features of Skype version 3, while it has been in beta… such as… the integration of, and debugging of, Skypecasting – the most amazing advancement since Skype itself! the implementation of Skype Public Chats, which can be joined by anyone, without a host’s intervention… the inclusion of the [...]
Well, now I guess the mystery is solved… What is Skype going to do about the Free calling to phones in the US & Canada – which is expiring on 12/13/2006…??? As of a few minutes ago, Skype is advertising on their web site: “Skype Unlimited Calling – a year of calls to any phone in US [...]
What’s the Latest on the SHOWS!?
Posted: December 13, 2006 in Bruce & Ed Live from New York, El Show de Edward GelWow! We’re getting ready to kick off a lot more shows…. real fast now… The full “production shows”… about one per week…. with me, Bruce, as the host… are called The Bruce Wagner Show… and will be at brucewagner.com The daily “coffee chat” shows with Bruce & Ed — unscripted, unrehearsed, unedited, and raw — [...]
Today is the 26th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder. This video should be mandatory viewing during a season when we are all sitting around complaining about our lives…. Thank God for people like John Lennon. We need more of them.
What Everyone should Keep in Mind when using a Chat Room You think you know what goes on in an internet chat room? Well, The Parlour shows what it is really like… without being able hide behind a persona… NEVER FORGET: You never really know with whom you are talking…
Did you see the news item about flatulence? On Reuters: “Flatulent passenger grounds flight” On AP: “Flatulence forces plane to land” Poor lady……. And she lit a match to get rid of the smell. People complained that there was a sulfer smell so they were forced to land the plane. I’ve always said MATCHES and [...]
I am now online 24/7 on MSN, AIM, Yahoo IM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, Meebo, Skype….. AND private chat windows on my own web sites… all with one little web-based tool…. Meebo.com And, best of all….. for free! Well, technically, I still have to have the Skype software running to be on Skype… But simply opening the [...]
Yesterday, my friend Steve Kovitz pointed out a new feature on the TWiT.tv site… They call it, “New! Audio Search“. It’s powered by a new technology…. whereby computers use voice recognition… to come up with computer-generated transcripts of every podcast and video podcast registered with it… This makes all of the audio contained in these [...]
This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items? Am I the only one who has been getting this little error message in my Internet Explorer browser ever since the beginning of time… I have always dutifully clicked on “YES”… I do want to display both the secure [...]
I downloaded and installed Skype Version 3.0 BETA on all of our computers last night. ( version 3.0.0.154 ) I love the new integration of Skypecasts — which will be VERY useful — especially for us… The integration of the Pamela software “extra” is nice too… (…and that it is free!) After a very quick [...]
As I’ve been saying… If I owned any telecommunicaitons stock, long distance company stock, or even cellphone company stock… I’d be selling selling selling… Skype is gaining global long distance traffic at the rate of 81% per year 2005 2006 Annual Growth Rate VoIP 45.2 62.0 37% Switched 219.2 273.3 8% Skype 7.6 13.8 81% [...]
Totally FREE Cellphones are Here! And they work Globally! I guarantee you… These phones are about to take over the world… and replace the cellphones we’re using now… How much is your cellphone bill each month? How would you like a new cellphone — with no bill — no usage expense…!?!? It’s a brand new [...]
A nice little review of what will certainly become Skype Version 3… Skype Beta 3 With Call Recording and SkypeCasts, First Look!
Ok… Here’s an update to my previous article on this topic… I’ve been doing pretty much what I’ve described…. (1) I have been UNSUBSCRIBING to everything I can possibly live without. There is almost NO email newsletter or mailing list that I NEED to be subscribed to. I can get all the information I need [...]
