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Techfun

http://blog.techfun.org

It's never just about the technology. No topic is off limits. Most subjects need to be discussed in ways that span politics, economics, technology, and who knows what else so no effort is made to keep the blog on a single topic.

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  • How to Remove EXIF Data from JPEG Files in Ubuntu

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 12:19 in Photography, Linux, ubuntu, exif data

    Most modern digital cameras and cell phone cameras add metadata to the images they create using the Exchangeable Image File Format standard.  That information can be very useful for you when you need to know exactly when, or in some cases even where...

  • Falcon Heene hid ‘for a show’ for his parents

    Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 02:04 in hoax, techfun, balloon boy

    In an interview with CNN, a reporter asked his father Richard whether his son heard people calling his name during a frantic search for the six-year-old. The boy claims he did hear calls, but deliberately ignored them. “Why didn’t you com...

  • Physicists Find Limit to Computing Speeds

    Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 13:58 in technology, computing, techfun

    Toffoli Lauren Schenkman for Inside Science News Service reports that physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli at Boston University have declared a speed limit on computing, no matter how small components get. Levitan In the early 1980s, Levitin si...

  • The New Face of the GOP – uhhh Really?

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 14:20 in politics, techfun

    If you walked into a room and encountered nine black men, three black women, six white men, and thirteen white women you could be forgiven for thinking you were at a faculty meeting at a community college or even a meeting of regional heads of ACORN ...

  • Microsoft + T-Mobile = Screwed Sidekick Owners

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 10:18 in Microsoft, t-mobile, dataloss, cloud computing, techfun

    Leave it to Microsoft to kick itself in the gonads just days before a huge product launch. This particular incident doesn’t even involve Windows or any Microsoft product, but a subsidiary that probably few people associate with Redmond. Some ba...

  • Tiny ‘nuclear batteries’ unveiled

    Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 16:21 in technology, batteries, techfun

    Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized “nuclear battery” that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes. Nuclear Battery As radioactive substances decay, they release charged particles that when properly harvested can create an...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 4 comments.

timethief

5 stars timethief

This is an excellent site where the writer prepares well researched and well written posts. Those focused on American politics, energy policy, environmental issues and policy and gay issues are of particular interest to me. I appreciate the balance that this writer demonstrates in his writing.

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Absolutely brilliant! One of my favorites.

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TechFun! Great site. COngRAts!

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This is an excellent blog, with highly interesting posts. There is a lot to read when you browse around. You folks who read this--check it out and bookmark it. (And, no, I am not writing this to solicit reciprocation. I mean these words.)

Posted: September 9th, 2007 | More Reviews From StaggoLee | Report This Comment

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