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[13 Apr 2013 | No Comment | 369 views]
T3 Consortium to Host At The 2013 NHRA Supernationals

 
 
Thrills, Tailgating, & Testostorone (T3 for sure!). – Sunday, June 2, 2013. For the 44th time, the NHRA travels to New Jersey for the NHRA Supernationals Sunday, June 2, 2013 at the famed Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey.  Make sure you’re part of the action. Tailgating starts Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 7:30am sharp (rain or shine). The tent will be up and the truck packed (Yes we have the top this time!) . Mark your calendars cause the date has shifted again.

 
 
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Also, many of the areas most dedicated …

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[2 Feb 2013 | 2 Comments | 3,832 views]
Top iPhone 5 Accessories Hit the Market

So you have a iPhone 5. Now how about some cool accessories for that new gadget. Let’s take a look at what’s out there. Let us know if you find a cool gadget and we’ll add it to our list. Goes on sale to the public on Feb 14. Cost $100.
The Case that Keeps on Giving
Let’s start with some new cases that offer more then basic protection. The iBattz case is one of the coolest battery backup cases for the iPhone 5 on the market. Due out this week, you …

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[14 Dec 2012 | No Comment | 3,691 views]
Removing Facebook Banner Ads

How about those Facebook Ads on your timeline! Like ‘em? NOT. Are you annoyed as the rest of us?  The Christmas seasion is in full swing and you can’t be happy with Facebook’s latest gift – Banner Ads on your personal page. Sure you’ve signed away your personal rights and are letting Facebook invade your personal space with ugly commercial ads. Have you had enough? Want to get rid of those ads? Let’s take a look at what you can do.
Facebook earns revenue from advertisements, but those ads and banners …

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[8 Sep 2012 | One Comment | 42,075 views]
Top 10: Noise Cancelling vs Noise Isolation Earbuds – iBeats & Bose put to Test

Smartphone users want to have a great digital sound experience with their music. But the hassle lies that you don’t want to have to lug around big bulky headphones. Maybe you’re a frequent airline traveler or motorcycle rider and you want earbuds to reduce the external noises so you can hear your music. Headphones are an option, but you know they’re big an bulky to travel with, and they are hot to wear. If earbuds are the preferred choice over headphones, we’ve put a few earbuds to the test to …

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[5 Jul 2012 | 3 Comments | 21,366 views]
Cablevision Optimum to Require ALL TVs to Have Box

Cablevision’s Optimum TV is finishing a conversion to all-digital service during the next week that requires installing cable boxes — leaving some viewers who didn’t get the boxes without their usual service.
The boxes are still available free until August 7 in the New Jersey/New York metro area. Boxes will restore the older nondigital “analog” stations, which are the basic ones, like the New York City TV stations, as well as permit a full range of digital channels that the company is trying to market.
According to the Optimum letter mailed to …

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[4 Jul 2012 | No Comment | 4,297 views]
General Henry Knox – America’s Forgotten General

Father of the American Army Artillery
Father of the American Navy
Father of the Draft
Fate has it often where those who put themselves in constant danger and face death every day are often spared until some freak accident takes them away from us. General Henry Knox, one of America’s most noteworthly and often overlooked Revolutionary War General fit that description after serving in some of America’s fiersiest battles, dies from eating a chicken bone.  Let’s take a look back at one of the greatest military geniuses of our time, General Henry Knox.

What was …

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[12 May 2012 | No Comment | 1,365 views]
Consultants Still Don’t Do It – The Trend

Nowhere in the corporate America was something as funny as when UPS depicted two consultants pitching a corporate executive with a solution only to follow up after the approval to go ahead with “Do it? We don’t do it!
Take a look back to this “We don’t actually do it…..” and “Can you imagine that guy? was the classic ending to a something that’s become more prevelent across corporate America a decade later.
 

 
Released during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the commercial struck a nerve that resonates even more today given economic challenges …

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[6 May 2012 | No Comment | 2,334 views]
Hiding Your Facebook Posts to Friends

Lets say you grab your kids smartphone and you add yourself to their friends list and you don’t want them to see your posts. Yes you can hide Facebook Posts so they don’t show up on one of your Friends walls.
With the new “timeline” format to Facebook, the process is a bit more complicated.
 
Here’s how you hide posts from Facebook Friends that you don’t really want them to know you’re posting:

Next to your homepage is a arrow – Click on the Account Settings Link
Click on “Privacy Settings”
Find the  Timelines and …

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[28 Jan 2012 | No Comment | 11,550 views]
Daytona 500 Ticket Price History – Face Values Rise

Face value of Daytona 500 tickets keep going up!
Take the black and white checkered seating on the frontstretch. That’ll set you back $680 a seat for a 4 day race package in 2012. And that’s the only way Daytona Intl Speedway sells the best seats on the frontstretch. Grandstand seating capacity was noted by ISC to be 147,000.
What about the enclosed suite box above Daytona International Speedway? ISC mentions there are 112 suites at DIS . Super exclusive! How much you ask for a four day package? In 2010, that would have set you back $1805, tax included per seat from …

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[26 Dec 2011 | No Comment | 24,470 views]
iCloud Does Not Store All of Your Music For Free

Before you click the button to backup all your info on the iCloud, you should read on. There’s a lot of mystery out there about the cloud. Sure, the cloud is this big nebulous thing out in cyberspace where you get to store your music, pictures, files or whatever and that’s great. But don’t be fooled into thinking that once you choose the iCloud setting that your new iPhone or iTouch that it’s going to back up ALL of your media and information. The iCloud is selective and you need to know how to navigate …