The current technology trends dictate that hard drive storage for PCs keep growing. Hard drive space continues to grow at an exponential rate while the price of the hard drives continue to drop.

When I hear individuals talking about purchasing a new PC, and they give me the specifications about the processor, memory and hard drive space; I really start wondering if this individual understands what they’re really saying.

Newer desktop machines are being purchased with larger hard drives, somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 to 1 TB of hard drive space available. And while this may be fine and dandy, this brings up the subject of how does this information get backed up and are people thinking about this when their systems are purchased?

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Ladies and gentlemen, I travel in small circles looking for bits of technology here and there, and while I try to find new and interesting stuff, it’s rare that I find outrageous and shocking things that just make me go, DAMN!

I’ve my website, and I spread the things that I think are interesting. I beta test for programmers, I offer suggestions to websites distributing software to users and I offer my opinions on how to do things better to a lot of people; basically, I consult- for free. [smiling]

I write from time to time about my own experiences with tech support, hardware or software products, and issues, as I did with PhraseExpress. But I wasn’t prepared to see the words that I wrote to them, to be duplicated word for word, on an another website, to soothe another pissed off PhraseExpress customer/reviewer.

What follows next, is AWESOME… This is some good stuff…

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iPhone users have enjoyed Hootsuite for a while, but the team of developers at Hootsuite have been nice enough to bring it to Android.

Hootsuite integrates, social networking and communications in to one place, making it easier to manage your accounts. And in my opinion has done a great job by recently adding Facebook and linkedin.

Being able to review all your incoming communications in to one spot makes things easier and more entertaining.

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Technology is changing and the world keeps moving, and I just keep posting stuff. It’s really not that hard to do if your watching or working with stuff.

LEHSYS is doing well right now. I get bursts of traffic here and there, but all in all it’s consistent right now. LEHSYS is below the mark on traffic from last month, but my RSS feeds are up 127% AND my ranking on Alexa is below 500k now.

The bounce rate on my articles is doing well at 77% and based on more information from Alexa my visitors are spending more time on the site; which is good and tells me that people are actually reading the articles.

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Windows Live Writer is due an update, but the Windows Live Writer team hasn’t announced any time frames as to when we might see the new version.

And while Windows Live Writer 2009 is a great program for blogging, and especially the use of using themes as you’re composing the post, some times the program doesn’t do as you expected and the themes are all messed up, or the theme your using with Windows Live Writer is not compatible.

So to help others adjust on the fly, here’s some information on how to deal with it.

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I like to try to spend some of my time visiting the Microsoft forums for Windows Live Writer to help other users get information to help them do better for figure something out; it’s just something I like to do. But simply doing a search on the Windows Live Writer forum is not going to help you that much.

But also, I report each month on how my site is doing and who makes the most crawls on my site and who refers to me the most.

The common issue here is BING.

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At this point, of all the things I’ve to deal with like programs, software and technical issues, I REALLY dislike Adobe FLASH right now.

I’ve a Dell laptop that I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP and I’ve found out that the Ubuntu/Linux Version of Adobe Flash is a resource hog and it consistently crashes my laptop from overheating.

Anytime I visit a site with FLASH on Ubuntu 9.10 I get these huge spikes in CPU usage and it turns the site in to just crap; nothing works or responds.

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Microsoft posted a disturbing article…

Does everyone remember that wonderful time in the last 10 years as Microsoft continued to muck with everyone’s machines with WGA; interrogating and SPYING on peoples machines to see if they were ‘genuine’?

And does anyone remember the back lash from the public about the rampant parade of false positives, from the the trial and error of the incompetence of Microsoft’s WGA?

Well, they’re starting it again…

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