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		<title>Can no longer recommend OOMA</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2010/11/24/can-no-longer-recommend-ooma/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2010/11/24/can-no-longer-recommend-ooma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like a great idea: Buy the device and free calling forever. I even subscribed to the premium service for some advanced features that we need like blocking. Unfortunately I have had nothing but trouble since I installed the system. A few days after getting my number ported, incoming calls on that number went straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Voice &#8211; One step closer to perfection</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/10/27/google-voice-one-step-closer-to-perfection/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/10/27/google-voice-one-step-closer-to-perfection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Voice really didn&#8217;t add anything new other than some interface modifications and instructions for mobile users, however it does bring the service one step closer to perfection. Here&#8217;s why: Most people are not going to spend the time figuring out how to forward their cell phone voice mails to Google Voice, but a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Certification Rant</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/06/10/certification-rant/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2009/06/10/certification-rant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certifications]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a few camps of thoughts on certifications. But first I want to talk about the types of certified people. First is the certification nut who has half a dozen or more after his or her name. These are typically instructors, or people with a job that is relatively un-demanding enough to provide them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Advertising</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/11/29/online-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/11/29/online-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AdSense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not an online marketing blog, or anything of the sort, however my experience with promotion over the past few months has taught me a few things and given me the motive to try some new things. I thought I would share some experiences and get any advice that anyone might want to share. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phone Decisions</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/11/08/phone-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/11/08/phone-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought a Magic Jack to evaluate, and I finally got around to moving the house phones over to it. Unfortunately it is not yet possible to port your number to Magic Jack, so for the time being I have forwarded my Packet 8 number to the Magic Jack number. We will see how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roundup</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/16/roundup/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/16/roundup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DirecTV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MagicJack]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a few small topics that I&#8217;d like to mention that aren&#8217;t big enough for their own post yet.
The presidential debate and DirecTV
Am I the only one who has glitches throughout the broadcast? Pieces of their words are missing as the system seems to lose the stream and has to rebuild it. Then near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DirecTV Lockups</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/06/directv-lockups/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/10/06/directv-lockups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DirecTV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that almost all the DirecTV HD DVR boxes locked up sometime last night. The only semi-official information I can find on the subject is from the Satelliteguys forum. I went through DirecTV&#8217;s site and was not able to find any official information although their Tech forums have some complaining on them.
DirecTV says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrecard Blues</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/entrecard-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/entrecard-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrecard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been blogging about Entrecard or blogging because it really isn&#8217;t the type of thing I want my blog to be about, however I do use Entrecard to help bring in readers with the hope that some of them will stick around. Recently the owner decided to try to get VC money, then decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrr! Pirates</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/arrr-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/29/arrr-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the other day was talk like a pirate day, I thought I would write about a different kind of pirate &#8211; one that uses and trades unlicensed software. When I was in college I always vowed that I would pay for the software that I used once I had a job and the means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Root Powered Webhost</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/27/root-powered-webhost/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/27/root-powered-webhost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linode]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is much more than a webhost, but this post is about my hosting provider, Linode. Your typical webhost provides terabytes of transfer and hundreds of gigabytes of storage for a fraction of what it actually would cost them to provide all of that. They do it because they know you can&#8217;t use all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spottt: Waste of Space</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/24/spottt-waste-of-space/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/24/spottt-waste-of-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I put Spottt up on my blog last Friday because I&#8217;ve seen it on a few other blogs and thought it might be a good idea to try. If it worked half as well as Entrecard for pulling in people to read then it would be worth the space. I read that I would have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hacking Palin&#8217;s Email</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/18/hacking-palins-email/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/18/hacking-palins-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired has a description (warning: language) up about how the guy hacked into Palin&#8217;s email account at Yahoo. I am not sure that hack is the right word since this was more of an exercise in social engineering and search engines. What bothers me most about this article is how it describes the &#8220;hacker.&#8221; Some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Microsoft fails another product launch</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/18/microsoft-fails-another-product-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/18/microsoft-fails-another-product-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packet 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really thought Microsoft had some clue where they were going with those Seinfeld advertisements, but it appears that they were just as clueless as the rest of us. It is sad really. I was hoping for some of those &#8220;Oh, I get it!&#8221; moments as the advertisements continued. Instead we get a failed advertisement [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Followup on Cellular One</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/17/followup-on-cellular-one/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/17/followup-on-cellular-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post on Cellular One I mentioned that they have handed off the local towers to AT&#38;T. Fellow blogger Dan Brantley mentioned his experience with such a transition. Well, I can report that some of that is coming true here. In addition to running down the battery on my Blackberry, my wife&#8217;s phone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cellular One</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/16/cellular-one/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/16/cellular-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cellular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in a region that AT&#38;T recently took over from Cellular One. All my household phones were switched over rather easily months ago. We don&#8217;t talk much except to eachother, so the prepaid phones have been the cheapest route to go there. My work phone is a Blackberry 8300 and so far has not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Entrecard.com</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/14/entrecardcom/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/14/entrecardcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I signed up for Entrecard.com yesterday. See the link on the right. I&#8217;ve been looking around the site including many blogs that are part of the network and I have some interesting observations. Most notably, I see a lot of blogs that are poorly written &#8211; mainly just filling words like they were after some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>CIA Triad</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/12/cia-triad/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/12/cia-triad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidentiality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integrity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a very strange article today where someone tried to argue that SaaS (Software as a Service) changes the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) paradigm (Triad). I was confused and read on only to find that there was no argument within the text to back up that statement. In fact, Availability was used as an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Backup Solution</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/06/my-backup-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/06/my-backup-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=8</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what I do for backups.
JungleDisk
JungleDisk is first because of its low cost and extreme versatility. Purchase the full version for $20 and use it on as many computers as you like. I have my same license running on at least 7 computers, Windows and Linux. This gives you a drive location that you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>VoIP</title>
		<link>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/06/voip/</link>
		<comments>http://techbypc.com/blog/2008/09/06/voip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VoIP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techbypc.com/blog/?p=3</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer level Voice over IP (VoIP) hasn&#8217;t taken off as much as it probably should in the United States. The most telling reason is that so many people don&#8217;t have a reliable high speed Internet connection. The other reason is that the technology is just not understood. A brief review of services that I have [...]]]></description>
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