Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Consumers are slashing their Halloween budgets this year.
• Netflix appears to be possibly adding streaming to Playstation 3.
• In the cool gadgets category, the LED Umbrella seems to be a fun gadget, although a bit pricy.
• It looks like Orange in the UK will be getting the iPhone on November 10th. There will be no hardcore gamers waiting, since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be released the same day.
• President Obama has declared an H1N1 emergency.
• An iPhone developer speaks out about game piracy.
• NASA has stepped down from the Yahoo! Board.
• We finally have an answer to whether you can do a clean install of Windows 7 with the upgrade Media.
• And in the geek humor, how Windows 7 is like an ex-girlfriend.
• Chrome has been released for Mac.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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I have moved hosting providers and domain names for my blog.

Along with the switch I also did a completely fresh install of WordPress. I did re-import the users (using SQL) and did an import using the wordpress import tool, but other than that everything else is completely brand new.

I think everything is back to normal, but if something looks odd please let me know.

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Here is today’s rather lengthy Daily Run Down.

Daily Run Down: 10-23-2009

• In a surprising move, Nigeria actually arrests and shuts down online scammers.
• Net Neutrality means a faster Internet for everybody.
• Apple will be releasing Boot Camp to support Windows 7, however it may not support all Intel Macs.
• In the What the hell are they doing category, Dutch government has no idea how to delete tapped calls.
• Microsoft is going after VMWare with their latest release of Hyper-V R2.
• The Rebel Mac cloner, Psystar has released their ‘Rebel EFI’ software to allow Snow Leopard to be installed on any PC.
• Comcast becomes a Wireless ISP.
• Texas instruments claims that bluetooth will be lower powered next year.
• Qwest will be ending their Phone service as of October 31st.
• In our gadget of the day, a see through toaster.
• Vodafone Symphoia
• Netflix will be starting a streaming only subscription, however it is not in the US.
• Apple has stopped all production on porting ZFS to Mac OS X. They are proceeding with the next iteration of HFS+.
• Amazon confirms that a Kindle Reader for Mac is in development.
• Hulu is officially charging for content in 2010.
• And the top story, Comedian Soupy Sales has died at the age of 83.

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Here’s today Daily Run Down

Today will be filled with Windows 7 since Windows 7 was released today.

That’s all for Today’s run down. Check back tomorrow for more stories.

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Here is Today’s Daily Run Down.

• Google announces Search deal with Twitter.
• Twitter’s CEO Ev Williams explains why he didn’t sell out to Facebook last October.
• Canada is going to try and force transparency in ISP throttling techniques.
• In a second Canadian story, Apple has dropped prices for Canadian Stores.
• Apple has gone ahead and explained the difference between ‘Disc’ and ‘Disk’.
• AT&T has decided to sue screen makers in alleging price fixing.
• Datel is a bit miffed at the 3rd party memory unit lockout to come with the next Xbox 360 update.
• In the biggest news of the day, Amazon says that Windows 7 is bigger than Harry Potter in terms of pre-orders.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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Here is the Daily Run Down for today.

• Apple’s iMac line updated.
• Apple quietly Updates Time Capsule and Airport Extreme.
• Apple announces new Mac Mini Server sans built-in optical drive.
• Barnes and Noble announces their new e-reader nook.
• ‘Balloon Boy’ incident is now under investigation according to CNN.
• What seems like a scene out of ‘West Wing’ a new formula pits 1 out of 6 Americans in poverty.
• It seems as though Firefox is headed to Google’s Android Platform.
• There may be life on an Extra Solar Gas Giant planet.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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Back when I first started blogging back in the early web 2.0 era of 2004/2005, when my blog was hosted on a computer using my parents high-speed internet connection I started blogging weekly about the top stories. It would be categorized and have brief descriptions. I’ve been thinking of reviving that weekly post, although with a different light.

I haven’t been blogging lately, why, I’m not sure, maybe too many other projects and other things that I have been up to. I do post a couple articles a week for macgasm.net. Maybe that’s why. Maybe I have been quite unhappy since my twitter posts haven’t been working for over 18 months.

I’ll probably be posting stories daily. Am I positive that I will be posting daily, no. It might end up being closer to three times a week, or maybe more, maybe less. I’ll be bringing everybody a list of the day’s top news stories, not broken down, probably not in any order except for when I read it. Maybe they’ll have descriptions, maybe not. We’ll see how this all runs down.

Along with adding a potentially daily post, I’m currently in the middle of switching hosting providers. Why you may ask, because godaddy is slow as molasses in the middle of January in the frozen tundra.

So we’ll see how all of this goes, whether or not I keep up with it or whether it falls to the wayside like most other aspirations I seem to have.

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