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Throughout the years we have always heard that content is king. It’s what gets people to your website and keeps them there. To help visualize why content is so important the nice folks at Brafton news have put together an awesome infographic with some great statistics.
Spent the morning playing with Windows 8 in my Virtual Box setup. Tried out a couple of things and it is really smooth. Only problem I had was with sound output with VirtualBox. Just changed the setting to Intel HD Audio and that fixed it.
One nice thing about Windows 8 is I’m not seeing the bugs I saw with the Windows 7 Betas. Granted this thing isn’t fully done but if this release is any indication, microsoft has really out done themselves this time.
Check out my experience with You Tube and Netflix on Windows 8 after the break.
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Check out this creative and talented parody of The Shining. I envy people with this much talent. It’s really awesome all the work they put into this kind of stuff. It really doesn’t matter that it is an ad for JavaZone201t. Check out the video after the break.
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The new Google wallet is looking pretty good. Luckily I have the requisite phone, the Nexus S. Only problem is that I don’t have a MasterCard to use it with. The good news is that Google also announced today that most of the other card issuers have made available their NFC specifications.
I can see some really neat things coming out of this. Imagine not having to carry around a wallet anymore and having all your cards at the ready. I’m not speaking of just your credit cards here but rather your frequent shopper cards like Food Lion or BiLo. Also what about coupons. No more clipping those things and having to take them with you. It will be a wonderful world when we all NFC.
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