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Amazon Prime Movies: Cheaper on the Website

I just tried to rent my first Amazon Prime movie, on the Roku set top box. On the website the movie was $2.99, and on the TV Buy it now was $3.99. Perfect. Supply and Demand, I love it. 99 times out of a 100 people on the TV just want to watch a movie

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What if you lose your Kindle?

I was on a plane yesterday reading my Kindle, and the guy next to me says something like “I used to have a Kindle, but I left it on a plane”, while he was pointing to the Seat-Back Pocket. And another time this week, I saw something on TV about the volunteer staff that work

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Deactivate the Power Button on your Laptop

As you see pictured here, the MacBook Air power button is just above the Delete (which really is backspace) button on the MacBook Air keyboard. If you’ve ever seen me type, you know I use the backspace key a lot! Once I accidentally pressed the power button, which wasn’t too painful as it put my

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A good book gets borrowed: Version Control By Example

Eric Sink (@eric_sink on twitter) has written a great book on Version Control Software, titled Version Control By Example. It showed up on my desk again this morning. I say again, because I keep letting people borrow it, and they keep returning it 🙂 I figured with it’s popularity, I could record a

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AZ Entrepreneurship Conference 2011

2010 was a great building year for EventDay.com. One of our great moments came when we donated services to help the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference. Here is a quick video post, talking about 2010, and trying the help push registration for the 2011 event. AZEC11.com

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Windows 8 Fast Application Switching

If you don’t have a keyboard available on your Windows 8 machine (like my Samgsung Slate when it’s not docked) you will benefit from this trick. If you have several (or lots of) applications open, a fast way to switch between them is to swipe in from the left, one-by-one until the application on you

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What is Windows 8 Metro?

What is Windows 8 Metro? In this short 6 minute video, I talk to the differences between Windows 8 Desktop, and Windows 8 Metro Applications. Compatibility is a big issue. Will your current code run in Windows.next, Code named Windows 8? Yes, and I’ll tell you how.

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My Telerik Interview on Day 2 of the Build Conference

I caught up with Richard Campbell doing Telerik interviews and was able to sit down for a few minutes. It’s always fun learning and sharing new technology at conferences. Thank you Telerik for the time you’ve put into these recordings, and Thank you Richard for setting it all up!

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Desktop IE10 vs. Metro IE10 Demo

There will be some confusion around this, and Video is worth 10,000 words so here it is. IE10 comes in two (or more) flavors. Desktop IE10, and Metro IE10. This quick screencast will show the differences