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TFTS Stands Against SOPA & PIPA

TFTS Cannot Support Any Anti-Piracy Bill That Threatens Free Speech & Aims To Censor The Internet
By on Friday, 20. January 2012

When I sit down and think about my job, I realize that I am incredibly lucky. 20 years ago, job opportunities like this simply didn’t exist. If you wanted to write for a living, you either needed to have an incredibly wild imagination, or you had to be lucky enough [...]

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Representative Lamar Smith Removes DNS Blocking Provision From SOPA

Lamar Smith Drops DNS Blocking From SOPA So Committee Can 'Examine Issues' Surrounding Provision
By on Friday, 13. January 2012

There’s a lot of really bad things about the pending Stop Online Piracy Act, but today, one of the worst has been removed. Representative Lamar Smith, the main sponsor and author of SOPA (or, as we like to call him around these parts, internet enemy number one) has removed the [...]

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The Problem With Online Passes

With So Many Players Having Issues With Online Pass & Publishers Not Doing Anything About It, We Examine What Needs To Change With The Concept Of Online Pass
By on Monday, 31. October 2011

2009 was a year that changed gaming as we know it. It was in that year, in the month of November, that Electronic Arts integrated Project Ten Dollar into one of its games for the first time. Dragon Age: Origins was the name of the game, and buying a new [...]

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Geeks Corner, How I Use Google Services With My iPhone

Apple Released iOS 5 This Week & It Reminded Me Just How Crazy My Gmail, Google Calendar & Contacts Set-Up Actually Is
By on Friday, 14. October 2011

Another week has passed which means I have another Geeks Corner column ready for you. Fortunately for my checking account I was able to go a full week without any new purchases, though there is still an iPhone 4S that will be ordered once my current contract ends with Verizon [...]

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Geeks Corner, I Did It Again & Likely Will Again Soon

The HP TouchPad Has Been Opened, The $79 Kindle Has Arrived & An iPhone 4S Will Soon Be Pre-Ordered
By on Friday, 7. October 2011

Well dear readers, another Friday is upon us and that means another Geeks Corner column for you to read (and hopefully enjoy). That being said, there is the obvious story in here, we all saw the passing of a legend in the tech industry this week, which I am sure [...]

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Geeks Corner, Caught By The Hype

The HP TouchPad & Me Buying Gadgets I Don't Need Edition
By on Friday, 30. September 2011

Coming as a bit of a follow-up to last weeks overabundance post, lets discuss something stupid that I recently did — I got caught by the hype and it resulted in me spending just over $150. Granted, the stupid part was not because I could not afford the item I [...]

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Geeks Corner, Overabundance Of Choice

Competition Is Generally Good, But With So Many Available Options -- How Do You Decide What To Buy & Use?
By on Friday, 23. September 2011

As mentioned at the end of last weeks Geeks Corner, I wanted to discuss an issue that I find troubling, the overabundance of tech. Granted, this may or may not be quite as much an issue for everyone, however, on the flip side I have a hard time believing that [...]

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Geeks Corner: The Introduction

TFTS Presents Geeks Corner; A New Weekly Column Where We Discuss The Tech World In A Slightly More Informal & Light-Hearted Manner, Or Maybe Rant
By on Saturday, 17. September 2011

Greetings dear TFTS readers, someone was finally brave enough to give me feature billing, which means that I should start this off by giving a quick thanks to Andrew, the owner and man behind the scenes who probably works way harder as compared to the writers to truly make sure [...]

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U.S. Nuclear Disaster Waiting to Happen at the Nebraska Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant?

Reports Indicate Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen But Is That Really So?]
By on Sunday, 19. June 2011

The main side effect of that terrible earthquake that hit Japan earlier this year was that nuclear catastrophe that followed. The events that lead to the nuclear meltdown, and Japan’s worthless efforts to prevent what seemed to be inevitable from the start, reminded governments around the world of this potential [...]

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Facebook Project Spartan, an Alternative to Apple’s App Store; Besides iOS Jailbreak

Is Facebook Targeting Apple with HTML5-based New App Store for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Meant to Circumvent Current Store Rules?
By on Thursday, 16. June 2011

Well this was sort of unexpected and I say sort of because, sooner or later, one of the giants out there would have come up with such an idea, creating an HTML5-based app store that would work on multiple mobile devices, and not only, and that would be ready to [...]

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