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	<description>Because technology isn&#039;t just for geeks</description>
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		<title>Embedding videos the old fashion way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when I embedded web videos manually by uploading the video file to a server, and then wrote some HTML emded code on the web page to show a video.  Then came YouTube which solved one of the biggest problems which is server bandwidth, but they insisted on transcoding the uploaded file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Pentium&#8217; branded Sandy Bridge laptop for $268!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/pentium-branded-sandy-bridge-laptop-for-268/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 9/2/2011 &#8211; The deal is alive again.  I bought one and it is a reasonably nice screen and keyboard. Here is a Lenovo &#8220;Pentium&#8221; branded Sandy Bridge laptop for $268! at Fry&#8217;s (Silicon Valley, don&#8217;t know about other regions).  That&#8217;s a little too good for me to pass up as my old wooden computer experiment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Android 6 stage update process</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/google-android-6-stage-update-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.formortals.com/?p=1571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I bought a new HTC Nexus One (brown with US warranty) last week and it came with a custom Vodafone UK ROM with Android Kernel Version: 2.16.405.1 CL223106 release-keys.  Unfortunately, this particular firmware prohibits any OTA updates or even manual updates and it was a nightmare trying to track down the problem.  Luckily I fell upon this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tablet wars are not a foregone conclusion</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/the-tablet-wars-are-not-a-foregone-conclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/the-tablet-wars-are-not-a-foregone-conclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marco Arment spent a hell of a lot of time trying to make the simple point that the tablet wars are a foregone conclusion in favor of Apple.  The thing that stuck out about his review of a review is that it spends so much time frothing at the mouth because someone said something nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s 3.5&#8243; tablet costs $749</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/apples-3-5-tablet-costs-749/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Apple&#8217;s 3.5 inch tablet with 3G and phone capability (what Apple calls their &#8220;iPhone&#8221;) with 16 or 32 MB storage costs $649 or $749.  These devices are nice, but it&#8217;s against my principles to pay that kind of profit margin for a device like this. If I was in the market for a phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry Birds for Chrome browser review</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/angry-birds-for-chrome-browser-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed that they now have Angry Birds for the Chrome web browser for free.  I own the $5 version for the Intel App store and wanted to see how this version compares so here are my impressions. The good It&#8217;s free. Installs very quickly with a few clicks. The bad No full screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosetta Stone Launches iPad App</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/rosetta-stone-launches-ipad-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Baumli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosetta Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Rosetta Stone launched their TOTALe HD app for the iPad device, another platform which Rosetta Stone included in trying to create a total immersion process for learning a new language.  I was excited to try and get my hands on the app as soon as I managed to get an opportunity. The app was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacBook Air 2011 Model Launch Immenent</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/macbook-air-2011-model-launch-immenent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/macbook-air-2011-model-launch-immenent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Baumli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mac OS X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notebooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Macbook Air is all but imminent for an early June launch.]]></description>
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		<title>TFS 2010 Web Access &#8220;Access Denied&#8221; error &#8211; solved</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/tfs-2010-web-access-access-denied-error-solved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/tfs-2010-web-access-access-denied-error-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Team Foundation Server]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.formortals.com/?p=1547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, one of the members of our QA team reported that they couldn&#8217;t access any projects in TFS 2010&#8242;s Web Access other than one. They were getting an &#8220;access denied&#8221; error with no troubleshooting information attached. The one project they could get to was the one that they had been working with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solid State PC</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/the-solid-state-pc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/the-solid-state-pc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles N. Burns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benchmarks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chassis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graphics cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTPC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motherboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NVIDIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.formortals.com/?p=1461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A silent PC is one that makes absolutely no noise, and by necessity has no moving parts (including fans). Such systems usually use very low-end hardware limited to trivial tasks such as running a cash register. The system introduced today, a Solid-State PC (SSPC) is a powerful quad-core i5 PC which runs most software faster than the majority of modern PCs, yet uses [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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