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Share Be safe and have a great night.  We will have some exciting new features next year and can’t wait to get them out.  We’ll see you on Monday!   Here is a Random Link for the New Year.

Share I spent way too much money a few years ago buying DVDs. It was a waste of money and I recently tried to recuperate some of that cost by selling them back to a local store (I unfortunately got about $1/DVD).  But first, I backed up my entire DVD collection to a hard drive [...]

ShareThis post will have a little different flavor, but it is something important I think, and I really hope to get our readers perspective on this.  Now that the democratic vote on bailing out the Big 3 automakers has failed, and we have successfully set aside the democratic process to enact the bailout anyway, the [...]

ShareFor all of those who get nervous about when Santa is going to arrive, or whether or not he can find you at Grandma’s house.  Don’t worry, the Gov’t is here to help. The great people at NORAD (the same people who track and protect us from Nuclear Missiles) runs a global Santa Tracking Network.  [...]

Share Throughout the rest of the week, we will be posting a quick tip that may help you with your computer needs. Today’s tip is to secure your wireless network.  Here is a great guide to help you do it. [Via PracticallyNetworked.com]

Share If you read this blog, it won’t come as a surprise to you that we here at Student Nerds love technology. We love how it changes lives and connects people, There’s an innate “gadget” factor that I think we all buy-into, finding new devices that do old things better, as well as new things [...]

Share So last night I was reading about Songbird which is a program powered by Mozilla (Makers of the popular Firefox browser).  Songbird is an open source music management program to compete with iTunes. In fact it looks just like it, brushed metal and all.  But here’s the kicker, you can not only browse the [...]

Share Google is always coming up with something really cool to use.  From Gmail and Adsense, to SketchUp and Google Docs.  Today I’m going to show you more about Google Docs and why I think it is such a wonderful way to do work. I started using Google Docs almost right when it was released [...]

Share I recently purchased a new Netbook, while there are a number on the market from Asus and Lenovo. I chose to good with the Dell Inspirion Mini-9. I chose the Window XP version configured here. The reason I decided to go with the Netbook was two fold. First, and probably most important was price. [...]

Share Shopping during the holidays can be a real pain. I can’t stand crowded malls, so I prefer to do as much shopping online as I can. I have found many great sites over the years and I’m going to share them along with some of my tips for having a painless holiday shopping experience. [...]