Salem State releases 64-bit Vista Solution, Cisco fans scowl
Posted September 21, 2009 – 09:40 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedYou heard it here first, folks. The campus of Salem State College, which I’m somewhat partial to since thats where I take classes, has announced last week that a “major overhaul of the wireless system” is taking place soon. Major postings on campus detail that it will “cover every inch of the campus.” These are [...]
No Comments | Tags:Windows 7 released to students for $20!
Posted September 19, 2009 – 09:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedSweet deal. Students can get a Windows 7 Home Professional Upgrade/Install for $20 just for being a student. I purchased the offer, which offers me a download for Windows 7 after October 22. Apparently Microsoft’s only offering this for a limited time, so if you have a b…@blah.edu mail account, go get yourself a copy [...]
No Comments | Tags:Google corrects GMail outage; productivity levels plummit
Posted September 3, 2009 – 00:40 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedTuesday Google had come across an unexpected service outage related to Gmail worldwide. Service was out for almost 100 minutes as Gmail routers dropped offline.
Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar at Google released a statement explaining that during a planned maintenance upgrade, email demand exceeded what was expected for the time, causing load-balancing [...]
No Comments | Tags:ACLU against Facebook
Posted August 27, 2009 – 12:40 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedThe ACLU of Northern California, American Civil Liberties Union, has created a campaign regarding Facebook privacy concerns over one-time-use applications, such as quizzes and polls.
Apparently Facebook has an all-in approach to accepting add-ins and applications — every application you add can, by default, access your profile information. Facebook provides a way to change these settings, [...]
No Comments | Tags:Pandora Caps Listener Hours for Free Version
Posted July 17, 2009 – 17:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedThe popular radio music site Pandora released a notice today indicating that they are switching their policies on free audio play to limit user accounts to 40 listener hours a month. Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora released the statement to listeners who have statistically listened to pandora for more than 40 hours per month. “We’ve [...]
No Comments | Tags:Audio Management: Formats
Posted July 17, 2009 – 17:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedMP3? OGG? M4P? What do these all mean?
They’re all audio formats. An audio format is the way a piece of digitized music is stored on your computer. They’re all different, but accomplish a similar goal. It’s sort of like how you’d save your essay for a class in a Text File, Word file, or a [...]
No Comments | Tags:Audio Management
Posted July 17, 2009 – 17:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedThis week here on The Silver Onion, we’re going to take a look at audio solutions for managing your cluttered music libraries! We’re going to cover directory management, audio formats, ID3 tagging, ripping, audio programs, and sharing this week!
So keep your RSS browsers tweaked to The Silver Onion this week for some neat tips on [...]
No Comments | Tags:Microsoft made a Zune Theme?
Posted July 17, 2009 – 17:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedYeah, this surprised me too.
Apparently Microsoft still likes Windows XP, or is really trying to push the Zune into popularity, because a while ago they created a theme for Windows XP that changes your desktop to an orange and black theme. It’s definitely a lot better looking than the traditional Windows XP desktop decorations.
You can [...]
No Comments | Tags:School House Rock – Fireworks
Posted July 17, 2009 – 17:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedWe thought here at The Silver Onion that you might enjoy some School House Rock about our lovely Fourth of July. Enjoy!
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No Comments | Tags:Happy Independence Day!
Posted July 17, 2009 – 17:00 in: Silivrenion, syndicatedAh, the smell of the fireworks and the questionable legality of having them in all twenty-eight states that seem to dislike the fun ones!
Anyway, Happy Declaration of Independence Being Revised Day! (The real independence day is actually July 2, 1776. It wasn’t until the fourth that the document was revised and accepted!)
And some fireworks for [...]
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