Open Thread: How’s Your Personal Tech Spending? As the larger economic picture continues to look dismal, the reverberations are being felt within the tech sector. As our parent blog GigaOM reports, the venture capital firms are starting to get antsy about whether Silicon Valley can ...Comment on Open Thread: How’s Your Personal Tech Spending? by ... I need to upgrade my computer which always has its CPU maxed out. I need a dual core system with at least 2 GB of RAM. However I have entire spare systems so sometimes I just boot up another computer to use its resources. ... Nerd Girls website encourages women into tech and science So when one of those women, Cali Lewis, talked about a site called Nerd Girls, an online community of women tech enthusiasts, I had to take a look. The site aims to encourage women and girls to get into technology, science and math. ... New site Side Taker gives you the public's perspective on your fights Growing up, I was always told that airing your dirty laundry in public was a bad thing, but that was before the Internet brought us blogging, podcasts and forums where we all give away all kinds of details about our lives. ... Amazing Personal Geek Library Take a moment away from gazing at the continued sell off in the markets and the media bad news blitz and feast your eyes on these incredible images from Jay Walker’s personal library. The article after the jump at Wired tells the story ... Personal Tech Microsoft, Sony will Launch Competing Virtual Worlds ... Personal Tech Microsoft, Sony will Launch Competing Virtual WorldsTop Tech News, CA - 1 hour agoSony's Home will let PS3 owners create their own avatars and explore a real-time virtual community as if they were playing a detailed 3-D ... iTunes Genius and privacy I'm not concerned that Apple collects anonymized information about my playing habits or asks for my credit card number--I get a lot more worried when they ask for my Social Security Number before I can buy an iPhone. Comment on Open Thread: How’s Your Personal Tech Spending? by ... I use two approaches: 1. Buy only essential stuff, as most things that we think of buying are plain whims. 2. Don’t go overboard with analyzing - it’s sometimes cheaper to buy anything rather than spend 5hrs comparing cheaper products ... Comment on Open Thread: How’s Your Personal Tech Spending? by ... I’ve been really choosy about the services, programs, memberships, etc. I spend money on. I use free open source programs when I can (like Open Office instead of Microsoft Office, Mozilla Thunderbird instead of MS Outlook, etc.) ... Comment on Open Thread: How’s Your Personal Tech Spending? by ... I’ve always been pretty tight when it comes to expenses other than things like furniture (things that should out-last me). Little luxuries are either canceled or scrounged. For example, I like to have water available right at my desk. ...
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