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How about a month-old episode of our podcast?

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I never posted this episode of our podcast. Today, we recorded a new episode, so I will post that one too. You can listen to all of our past podcasts on HelpMeRick.com.

The topic for this show was technology in education.

ComputerHelpShow-08-19-09.Modified Podcast Logo with My Headphones Photoshopped On
Creative Commons License photo credit: Colleen AF Venable

UPDATED: Day after big Apple announcement – expect big Sprint announcement

While reading up on all the new Apple announcements, we received the following email from Sprint. Should we get excited? Is it more than the Pixie? Is it ubiquitous WiMax? We are on the edge of our seats – kind of.

sprint teaser

As it turns out, the big announcement was actually pretty big. Sprint is now allowing unlimited mobile to mobile calls to and from any mobile on any carrier if you pay for an unlimited data plan.

Hate is a strong word – I hate what eBay has become

I used to love eBay. Indeed, I was an eBay fanboy. I made thousands of dollars selling found items using eBay. eBay made a lot of money off of me and I was happy to give them a share of what I made. That is, until eBay decided they didn’t want to be eBay anymore.

Ebay Front

This photo was taken when eBay was awesome.

Creative Commons License photo credit: Ryan Fanshaw PhotographyAfter taking a year off from eBay after writing my rant piece Where is Pierre Omidyar’s eBay?, I decided to try it again. I have learned over the past nine years as a computer geek not to take anyone’s word for what’s good and what’s bad in the computer world. I have to try things out for myself.

I knew that eBay had made many changes over the past year or two, but I had no idea how much those changes would effect my experience as a seller and buyer on eBay. Read the rest of this entry →