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Another Apple Store in Manhanttan at the end of the year
It seems that Apple is really growing by leaps and bounds. Apple will be opening a third store in Manhattan in the Meatpacking district. From the Apple Insider this will be a pretty large store and a pricey store as well. R.K. Futterman & Associates who manage the the story, 52,000 square-foot corner property. To open an third store in Manhattan, this company must be doing okay.

One For The Consumers
This article from CNet News really speak volumes to many. Many power users have been doing this for years when it comes to wiping their hard drives clean and installing a fresh copy of Windows on their machines. Businesses always do this and now consumers are doing the same thing. The latest Apple computer commercial (Stuffed) showing the PC “bloated” with unnecessary software which has always bogged down the system and most of the times consumers do not know what is on their systems. To me PC has become the NASCAR of the computing world. Dell and Gateway gives consumers the option to order just the Windows OS to install on your system and hopefully more companies will follow suit.

elhood and vostu.com
A couple of Hispanic social networks are making head way which goes to show that whether if it’s the us, china, spain, we are connected together via internet. elhood looks like a myspace for musicians and for people to get to know one another. It’s really cool that everyday I am on the web and everyday I learn something new. Other sites are popping up pretty soon many older people are really going to realize that we truly “are on one highway”.

other sites:
MiGente.com
Hi5.com

A New Phone That Has caught Me Eye
I am in search of a “one piece phone”…what do I mean by that? I’m tired of the flip phones…period. I want a nice phone that is slender, I do not need an mp3 player/camera phone/pda phone. It’s weird, some gadgets I don’t mind multiple function and others I need them just to focus on what it should do and this for me is for a phone to be a “phone”. This new Motorola cell phone I believe has these “extra” functions” I can do without but the Motorola RIZR Z8 has a cool little thing I like…it curves and it’s about time. Maybe other cell phones may have this feature but as long as it is not a flip phone I’m cool with it. Now the big question…will this phone be released in the US? We will see.

Here We Go Again
After just taking my digital cable box/DVR back to my cable company seeing this makes me wonder, “why do I really care?” I buy DVDs, I never have liked “Movies On Demand”. My geek brother Luis uses Netflix and is really pleased with it so I may try this later down the road. But for right now give me DVDs and a DVD recorder and I am a happy camper. Why again on commenting on this? Maybe my other geek brothers and sisters may be interested in the new Vudu and who knows, I may change my mind about it…anything is possible.

Battery Issues…Again
Just when we thought we made it past the battery laptop issues Apple comes out to say there may be more issues with battery performances with the MacBook and MacBook Pro machines. I really like Apple but why do America companies continue to push out inadequate machines and then wonder why we as Americans may begin to look at and buy machines oversees. Keep it up Apple, Dell and other American Computer companies, pretty soon you will end up like the automotive companies here in the states.

Yikes AOL
I hope I can find out more about this story but this makes me wonder…do teens go out and play outside anymore? To be able to hack into a major company’s database, plant a bot and be able to phish 60 accounts out of AOL employees and subcontractor…you got skillz kid. But in all seriousness, I have said this time and time again, we as parents have to begin teaching our youth that things do not always go our way in life and you have deal with bad as well as the good. Now the young lad is looking at fines over a $500,000.

Dan Rather Speaks
This interview with Dan Rather from Kyle Monson talks about how some bloggers scoop stories and even get the facts straight when the main stream news do not. I believe with 24/7 news companies, the facts sometimes fall by the wayside. Mr. Rather also says and I agree that we have to be careful as bloggers because with the capability of getting news right away, bloggers may sometimes, like the main news groups, may want to “cut corners” when reporting some stories. I learned this first hand when the Don Imus and Virginia Tech Shooting stories broke. I chose not to write about them until the end of the week. I wanted to wait until much more information came out.

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