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Why you shouldn’t use Amazon’s Unbox Service

Amazon’s Unbox service allows customers to purchase movies & tv shows for viewing on their computer or Tivo DVR. When purchasing a movie, you’re often presented with 2 choices – you can rent the movie for around $4, or you can purchase the movie for about the price of a DVD, about $20. [...]

Comcast DNS slow? Use these easy to remember DNS IPs

I have Comcast cable at home. Overall, the service is pretty good – certainly light years better than the Verizon DSL to which I previously subscribed. One problem that Comcast is plagued by, however, is notoriously slow DNS servers.
For those of you non-technical folks out there, “DNS” stands for “Domain Name [...]

The “Perfume Robbers” Email is a Hoax

I have this gullible friend, we’ll call her “Suzy.” Even though we live hundreds of miles apart, I can always tell when Suzy is reading her email because my inbox invariably fills with exclamation mark-laden messages with subject lines like “FW: Fwd: Fw: Very important, not a joke. Please read” and “FW: Re: Getting [...]

Ashley Flores Isn’t Missing

And if you send an email to HelpfindAshleyFlores@yahoo.com, you’ll get a “no such user” error.
Contrary to what you may have read in your email, Ashley Flores isn’t missing.
I received an email today from a friend who’s never met a “forward me” email that she didn’t oblige – the email pleaded for me to be on [...]