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Murphy’s Law: X Marks the Empty Spot in My Wallet

November 10, 2010
Murphy’s Law: X Marks the Empty Spot in My Wallet

The story of Xmarks is like a David and Goliath kind of a tale—only, instead of slinging rocks, users of the (seemingly) popular service all pledged to donate untold amounts of money to keep the cross-browser bookmark synchronization tool alive.
Well…

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Murphy’s Law: When Google Says "Do Not Pass Go," You Listen

October 18, 2010
Murphy’s Law: When Google Says "Do Not Pass Go," You Listen

Uggghh. I should have known better, but there I was, staring at a bright-red screen in my Google Chrome tab that was trying to impress upon me—as much as a software browser could sans digital kick to the butt—that the popular tech news site I was a…

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Murphy’s Law: Why is my License Plate on Reddit?

October 11, 2010
Murphy’s Law: Why is my License Plate on Reddit?

It’s not very often that one sees one’s life posted on one of the larger news/technology aggregates/communities/linkdumps on the web. But there I sat the other day, idly browsing the web the other day, when up came a chat window from Future US co-s…

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Murphy’s Law: Dreaming a Steamy Dream of One-Click Driver Updates

October 5, 2010
Murphy’s Law: Dreaming a Steamy Dream of One-Click Driver Updates

It’s hard to maintain any kind of neutrality when writing about Valve’s Steam service. Indeed, it’s hard to write anything about Steam without adopting a grin the size of a cartoon character and lavishing compliments on the service faster than ne…

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Murphy’s Law: How Do You Download?

September 22, 2010
Murphy’s Law: How Do You Download?

Is there a special, unwritten set of rules for downloading freeware? I’d like to think there are—for me, at least. For even though I’m “that guy” at Maximum PC, perhaps the only (former) editor to actually come close to pushing past one’s…

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Murphy’s Law: 98 Percent of Companies Use Open-Source, 29 Percent Contribute Back. What?

August 16, 2010
Murphy’s Law: 98 Percent of Companies Use Open-Source, 29 Percent Contribute Back. What?

A recent survey hit my radar this weekend and, I must say, I’m not that surprised by the results. Contrary to my usual columns, I won’t bury the lede: Accenture polled 300 large organizations in both the public and private sectors and—surprise!

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