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Yesterday, Google released yet another product that will disrupt an industry, Google Public DNS.  Most people are probably not familiar with what DNS even is, so Google offers this explanation:
Most of us aren’t familiar with DNS because it’s often handled automatically by our Internet Service Provider (ISP), but it provides an essential function for the [...]

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Ok, so you’re down here in Buenos Aires, enjoying the warm December weather while all your friends and family are stuck back in the northern hemisphere freezing and waiting for the holidays.  Why not cheer them up and send them an old-fashioned, non-electronic holiday card?  Ahh, right, all the hassles with postage and sending things [...]

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I guess it’s relatively fitting that my first new post to the blog in awhile covers something near and dear to my heart — technology.
Yesterday, Foursquare launched in 50 additional cities, and yes, Buenos Aires was one of them.
What is Foursquare you ask?  Well, in addition to being one of the most hyped new companies [...]

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I previously wrote about how to work around content restrictions on viewing television shows from outside of the US using anonymous proxies and VPN services. Unfortunately, those measures no longer work for Hulu, the largest free online site for viewing TV shows.
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Hulu is now blocking VPN services and anonymous proxies in [...]

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