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Is Cash Still King? – How The World Is Trending Toward Online Payments

Jesse Michelsen — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:00:09 +0000

One of the top trends of 2011 has been mobile or digital payment methods. Being able to pay with your smart phone from anywhere in the world, instantly, in any currency is now a reality and that is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what is possible with the new technology being developed [...]

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How Do They Compare: iPhone vs Android – Part 2

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:02:03 +0000

In the past year the Android operating system has gained considerable traction in the smart phone market. It’s main competition, as well as the dominating factor in the smart phone market is the iPhone’s IOS now in it’s 4th and soon to be 5th iteration. Both of these systems are very unique and have their [...]

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How Do They Compare: iPhone vs Android – Part 1

Jesse Michelsen — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:30:00 +0000

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Are You Ready For Space Travel? It’s Coming

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:02:34 +0000

This week something pretty impressive happened that will go down in history: the first commercial flight into space took place. That’s right, a non government body successfully sent a spacecraft into orbit, had it do some task up there and then it returned safely to earth. This space shuttle, created by a private company called [...]

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What Will Augmented Reality Do For Your World?

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:45:35 +0000

Lately, it seems like the future is no longer so far into the future. Things that are right out of a persons wildest dreams and imagination are becoming a reality today; things like video phones, intelligent computers and interactive worlds are no longer something you will only see in futuristic movies. But how will this [...]

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Living In A Game Gets A Whole New Meaning: GreenGoose Unveiled

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:09:23 +0000

This past week I heard something rather disturbing on the radio and it is not something new — no I’ve heard this kind of thing over and over again for the past five years at least. I’m not talking about the revolts that have been going on all over the world, or the latest news [...]

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Work Flow: How I Use Evernote

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:00:48 +0000

Yesterday I posted about Evernote and how it was a revelation in what the wide world of great minds out there can come up with. I can go on and on about how great it is, but why not go into detail as to how exactly I use it. So that’s what I’m going to [...]

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Income and Internet: How Do They Relate Continued

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:34:13 +0000

Pew Internet and American Life Project recently released some data about how Income levels and Internet usage relate to each other. Earlier I discussed how I felt the research may have been a bit backwards in that it pointed to income levels as the reason that households use Internet differently and more specifically why higher [...]

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Income and the Internet: How Do They Relate?

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:06:09 +0000

In late November the Pew Internet and American Life Project released the finding of their research which had to do with how Internet is used throughout American households. I found the results of this study really thought provoking but also felt like some of the conclusions seemed backwards of the way I think about Internet [...]

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Amazon Patents Bad Gift Conversion System – Think Gift Insurance

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:42:55 +0000

Every year you dread getting a gift from that one person, most likely a stuffy old aunt or uncle, that gives the worst gifts ever. If it’s not a plaid sweater with a large unicorn embroidered on the front, it’s a “make your own soap from chicken fat and other household by-products” kit. Why these [...]

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