RyanDavis.Net » Technology http://www.ryandavis.net perusing the aether... Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:54:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Wonderful World of Early Computing http://www.ryandavis.net/2008/05/09/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2008/05/09/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 21:07:56 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/?p=1673 Link

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/30/ancient-rome-rebuilt-digitally-flash/feed/ 0 Tech Tip: Organize your digital photos with Picasa http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/22/tech-tip-organize-your-digital-photos-with-picasa/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/22/tech-tip-organize-your-digital-photos-with-picasa/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:35:57 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/22/tech-tip-organize-your-digital-photos-with-picasa/ Picasa is a FREE application from Google that installs on your computer and allows you to organize, edit, and send to print or internet all of your digital images. I have been using this for some time and I must say that if you have a digital camera, this program is a MUST.

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/22/tech-tip-organize-your-digital-photos-with-picasa/feed/ 0 MySpace v. Facebook: “It’s Not A Decision. It’s an IQ Test” http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/03/myspace-v-facebook-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-not-a-decision-it%e2%80%99s-an-iq-test%e2%80%9d/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/03/myspace-v-facebook-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-not-a-decision-it%e2%80%99s-an-iq-test%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:07:03 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/03/myspace-v-facebook-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-not-a-decision-it%e2%80%99s-an-iq-test%e2%80%9d/ The title sounds snooty but this is an actually quote of commentary from Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists on the changing face of social network applications online.

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/06/03/myspace-v-facebook-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-not-a-decision-it%e2%80%99s-an-iq-test%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 Video: RSS in Plain English http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/05/14/video-rss-in-plain-english/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/05/14/video-rss-in-plain-english/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 01:15:52 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/05/14/video-rss-in-plain-english/ Everyone, from time to time you might here me extoll the virtues of RSS and try to explain it to you but the following video does a pretty good job if you are still confused. Please take a very small amount of time to go to this website and watch this video.

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/05/14/video-rss-in-plain-english/feed/ 1 How many emails are sent each day? http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/27/how-many-emails-are-sent-each-day/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/27/how-many-emails-are-sent-each-day/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:32:20 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/27/how-many-emails-are-sent-each-day/ Being that I send and receive an incredible amount of email a day I find this not surprising at all. I however don’t seem to most people to receive a bunch of email because I always have a clean and orderly inbox, but take my word for it, a full or sloppy inbox will drag you down… always. Keep it clean and act on the items you can or just file the others away as tasks for later. Seriously, you leave ANYTHING in your inbox and you make you work-flow harder on yourself.

Information courtesy of “I did not know that yesterday!”.

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/27/how-many-emails-are-sent-each-day/feed/ 1 Millions of PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/12/millions-of-photobucket-videos-blocked-on-myspace/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/12/millions-of-photobucket-videos-blocked-on-myspace/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:39:17 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/2007/04/12/millions-of-photobucket-videos-blocked-on-myspace/ This is why you need to STOP USING MYSPACE. Delete your accounts and get out while you can. They will just get worse and more constricting with their allegedly virus laden, spyware filled, crappy, wanna-be social networking site. Don’t stay there just cause your old friends are there. Take them with you.

You are only empowering them to continue to screw people by using it. Take your freinds elsewhere like to Facebook or better yet if you like music and what not Virb.

PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/12/29/the-20-most-innovative-products-of-the-year/feed/ 0 If you have been wondering where I have been (aka My New Toys) http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/06/12/if-you-have-been-wondering-where-i-have-been-aka-my-new-toys/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/06/12/if-you-have-been-wondering-where-i-have-been-aka-my-new-toys/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:43:04 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/?p=677 If you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting alot to my website lately it is because I have been completely slammed with work. Last week I was out of town for training for Juniper Implementing NetScreen Security Gateways 5.1 training. This week I am in training again taking the SANS System Forenics, Investigation, and Response information security training. Yeah, six day course.

Anyway check out the new hotness below which is what I was in training for last week.

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/05/14/wild-futuristic-pictures-of-japans-rainwater-drainage-systems/feed/ 0 A Scientific Approach to why Myspace’s is a pile of garbage http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/04/24/a-scientific-approach-to-why-myspace%e2%80%99s-is-a-pile-of-garbage/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/04/24/a-scientific-approach-to-why-myspace%e2%80%99s-is-a-pile-of-garbage/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:43:08 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/?p=613 Link To Article

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My World II

]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/04/03/my-world-ii/feed/ 0 Article: Apple customers continue to push the boundaries of loyalty http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/03/27/article-apple-customers-continue-to-push-the-boundaries-of-loyalty/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/03/27/article-apple-customers-continue-to-push-the-boundaries-of-loyalty/#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:33:39 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/?p=551 Link

]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/03/27/article-apple-customers-continue-to-push-the-boundaries-of-loyalty/feed/ 0 Awesomes! I got invited into the Gmail for your domain Beta http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/03/22/awesomes-i-got-invited-to-the-gmail-for-your-domain-beta/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2006/03/22/awesomes-i-got-invited-to-the-gmail-for-your-domain-beta/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:11:49 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/?p=517 So, basically gmail is launching this service that works with their current Gmail except that now the email from my website (in this case, ryan at ryandavis.net) will forward into Gmail and I will be able to sign in and retrieve my mail there or use Gtalk the same way. Now that I got this and I am keeping it, pretty soon they will add SIP (VoIP technolgy) it will be the hottest thing around. I can’t wait.

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(Don’t worry, link is safe for work, mostly)

]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/12/08/networking-porn/feed/ 2 This is why you shouldn’t buy CD’s anymore… http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/12/07/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-buy-cds-anymore/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/12/07/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-buy-cds-anymore/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:50:59 +0000 Ryan http://www.ryandavis.net/?p=252 This site is basically just a guy that created a application that helps add lyrics to songs. Now he has to take it down because even though he is doing nothing wrong they are threatening to sue him. So, ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE THE CUSTOMER WHO IS AT THE MERCY OF THE PEOPLE YOU BUY FROM?

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/11/17/say-it-in-bed-with-an-led-g-string/feed/ 0 Boycott Sony http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/11/14/boycott-sony-2/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/11/14/boycott-sony-2/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:31:52 +0000 Ryan CDATA[Okay, all of you that know me know that while I am critical of a lot of things, I am usually accepting of others behavior even if I don’t agree with it and they do it anyway. However, as a friend I must say this:

IF YOU BUY SONY MUSIC, ELECTRONICS, OR COMPUTERS, **YOU ARE AN IDIOT**. Plain and simple, nothing else to it. I do not want to be around you as a friend anymore becuase you emberass me. Not only because their technology generally sucks and is restrictive, but also because there jackassed corporate behavior deems it required that you Boycott Sony.

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]]> http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/11/08/howto-clean-a-laptop-screen-with-household-products/feed/ 0 Cinemas as police-states: why box-office revenue is in decline? http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/11/08/cinemas-as-police-states-why-box-office-revenue-is-in-decline/ http://www.ryandavis.net/2005/11/08/cinemas-as-police-states-why-box-office-revenue-is-in-decline/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:49:17 +0000 Ryan I love movies, I love them, but this is why I hate going to the movies now adays.

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