Since fall is coming. Leaves will be falling shortly to, I can handle the raking of the leaves but what scares me is cleaning the gutters on my house(Bad experience falling off the roof). Uneven ground or second story gutters to try to reposition the ladder every so many feet. Someone came up with a great invention the iRobot looj Remote gutter cleaning robot. Just make sure its charged.

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My feelings towards Microsoft has mostly been positive, I have had my moments with them. Microsoft has had history on supporting education. Scholarship and other programs that young students excel. Well Microsoft does again with dreamspark.com
If your a teacher or student you download any microsoft application on this and there is a lot to choose from. Many of you are saying this is a business ploy and most likely yes. If your a parent of a high school or a poor college student this is a great thing that Microsoft is doing.

As more businesses, schools, non profits, and families watch there budgets they have to look at the current computers they have or forced to consider lower cost solutions like next to nothing or free solutions. A free Linux based OS called “Ubuntu” is now considered with universities and users. A free big name alternative OpenOffice.org is gaining momentum. The free download version of Ubuntu is pretty much turn key OS. It includes pretty much all the apps you need and believe it or not its all free! Ubuntu is probably one of the most user friendly formats of the Linux family. I do agree with Chis Pirillo “I think Ubuntu is here to stay!”

Ubuntu site: http://www.ubuntu.com

I just received my copy of iLife09 yesterday. Like a little kid I ripped the Fedex box open, then the plastic off the iLife09 box. Install time took about 30 minutes then play time.

Improvements and added features:
iPhoto 09: Face recognition was easy to set up and worked very well. I did not have a chance to play GPS location feature. You can publish picture directly to facebook and flickr.

iMovie 09: More precision control, video stabilization, more transitions, themes, more text options, more editing features, create animated maps, backdrops and lot more I cant say enough. Much improvements!

GarageBand 09: Piano and Guitar interactive lessons (forget about hiring a teacher for lessons)

iWeb 09: Adding live content using widgets. You can record or take picture with the iSight and place directly on the iWeb. Much more enjoyable experience.

This upgrade is worth it in my opinion. I found it was easier to create various types of media than the iLife08. Dont get me wrong iLife 08 was great but the improvements on iLife09 has made it more enjoyable.

This year at CES we are hearing a lot on new cell phones coming this year. LG is coming out with the LG Watch Phone that from what I have seen will be available this year. It will be like the Modern Dick Tracy watch. Bright screen and about almost the same size as a scuba watch. It will offer a built in digital camera but it has not determined the mega pixel of the camera, the battery life would be the downside right now because currently it has 3 hours life (not good). At this time no info on which wireless service will carry this Watch Phone.

This phone can actually be the threat to the iphone trend. With nice querty keyboard, nice screen size, card application method, nice touch screen, full html browser, camera, less is more method. The only issue I have its one the Sprint network. I think I actually take the time to stop by a Sprint dealership to look at this phone.

Being computer guy at work I always get asked “where can I get a free software for my computer that is safe?” So I decided to make a quick video of some applications I have tested and used. So whats your favorite free useful software?