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For Friends in Costa Rica: If your internet sucks, try Google Public DNS

So here is a little tip for my friends in Costa Rica.  If your internet connection seems lethargic, it might not be your connection speed that is the problem.  Rather, the problem many times is with RACSA’s DNS servers.  Basically, they suck.  For my non-techie friends, DNS servers are responsible for translating named addresses, like ‘www.yahoo.com’ into numbered IP address (212.100.105.1) for example.  RACSA’s DNS servers are many times ridiculously slow in this process, which is why many times it can seem to take ages after you type an address into your browser before the page starts to load.

Well, the Big G just did you a big favor a couple of days ago and created a new service called Google Public DNS.  It is an alternative DNS service which Google is allowing the public to use for free.  So instead of having to use RACSA’s slow DNS servers, you can easily reconfigure your computer (and probably your phone too) to start using Google’s (likely much faster) DNS servers. 

For those who don’t need instructions on how to do this, the server addresses are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.   Just change them and you’re done.  If you don’t know how to change your DNS settings, there are instructions for Windows and Mac here.   You’re welcome!

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Posted December 11, 2009
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Now That's a Sailboat

View from my home this morning. Nice boat :)

Do any of my Coco friends know who owns this beauty?

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Posted December 8, 2009
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Awesome Gadgets: The Cinemin Swivel

If you’re wondering what to send me for Christmas … meet the Cinemin Swivel.

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Posted December 7, 2009
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The Ultimate Editorial Calender Plugin for Wordpress. Great for Multi Author Blogs and Post Scheduling | Erica Says

Anyone who writes posts ahead of time and schedules them for future publishing knows the frustration of trying to decide when to publish a certain post, or worse yet, how to move things around when you’ve come back and written a time sensitive post and need to insert it and bump everything else up a day or two.

The Ultimate Editorial Calender Plugin for Post Scheduling

There has long been a need for an Editorial Calendar plugin for Wordpress, and thanks to a great guy and fellow member of the Problogger.com community, we now have one. Zack began a thread on the forum a few weeks ago, asking people what they’d like to see in a plugin, and he took all our replies to heart and came up with a rocking plugin!

The Editorial Calender plugin is available via the Wordpress Plugin directory: Plugin Page

With this plugin you can easily see all published, scheduled, and draft posts. You can click, drag, and drop a post to any day you want, or simply click on it for a little more information.

I think multi-author blogs will also benefit greatly from this plugin.

Tell me, how long have you waited for something like this?? Will this tool save you time?

via ericasays.com

 

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Posted December 6, 2009
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Chori can Brush His Own Teeth

I didn't set up these photos. The other day my dog Chori, after watching me
brush my own teeth - grabbed a toothbrush sitting on the bottom shelf of a
bathroom dresser, carried it into the living room, and proceeded to 'brush'
his own teeth. He also has a thing for walking upright on two legs. This
dog is freakishly intelligent.

     
Click here to download:
Chori_can_Brush_His_Own_Teeth.zip (118 KB)

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Posted December 6, 2009
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CrunchPad partner plans media event - San Francisco Business Times:

The man whom TechCrunch blog network founder and editor Michael Arrington blamed for killing his CrunchPad hardware project has scheduled a video call with reporters and industry analysts for Monday, according to a Silicon Valley public relations firm.

Chandrasekar "Chandra" Rathakrishnan, founder and CEO of Fusion Garage, will speak to reporters and demonstrate "the device" both in a video call and in private briefings scheduled for later Monday at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, said Megan Alpers of San Jose-based McGrath/Power Public Relations.

Rathakrishnan, who had earlier promised via an email to the San Francisco Business Times that a statement would be forthcoming, "just wants to be able to share his side of the story and he’s going to be showing the device very briefly as well," Alpers said.

Arrington had identified Fusion Garage as his company's Singapore-based partner in developing the CrunchPad, which Arrington envisioned as a tool for web surfing, video chat and light email use.

Arrington announced in a blog posting on Nov. 30 that after about 18 months, the CrunchPad was in the "deadpool" because Rathakrishnan and his investors were trying to cut TechCrunch out of the deal.

"We will almost certainly be filing multiple lawsuits against Fusion Garage, and possibly Chandra and his shareholders as individuals, shortly. The legal system will work it all out over time," Arrington wrote.

Arrington said the plan had been to debut the CrunchPad at TechCrunch's "RealTime CrunchUp" conference, with 1,000 of the devices on pre-sale large scale production set for early in 2010.

According to Arrington, neither TechCrunch nor Fusion Garage, which have shared development expenses, own the intellectual property tied to the CrunchPad outright, but TechCrunch alone owns the CrunchPad trademark.

Arrington speculated that Fusion Garage and its investors were trying to "renegotiate the equity split on the company behind CrunchPad, which was to acquire Fusion Garage. Renegotiations are always fine. But holding a gun to our head two days before launching and insulting us isn’t the way to do that."

Fusion Garage has had a team of roughly 13 employees working in Silicon Valley out of a home they rented and in the offices of TechCrunch, which had its own team led by Brian Kindle, the former vice president for hardware engineering and manufacturing at Vudu Inc. in Santa Clara and an early hardware engineer at TiVo Inc., Arrington said. The TechCrunch team has also spent time in Singapore and Taiwan, he said.

via sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com

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Posted December 4, 2009
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Robert Scoble Gets Roasted!

 

Enjoying the roasting of Robert Scoble @Startup2Startup … absolutely hilarious.

Live feed here:

http://www.ustream.tv/startup2startup

  

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Posted December 2, 2009
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