Welcome to Data-drop.com. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just got off the phone with one of my clients asking if I still had a copy of her files from her laptop. 2 months ago she bought a brand new dell laptop with [...]

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This post is actually inspired by a couple of my customers. Being in pursuit for the cheapest dialup service, I came across 650Dialup. Its advertised as $6.50 / month, unlimited dialup internet service.
650DialUp — for fast and reliable unlimited dial up access at an unbelievably [...]

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“So, what kind of music do you like?”
“All kinds.”
“Yeah, me too.”
At some point we’ve all had that conversation, that idle get-to-know you banter that gets you nowhere, but do you even know what kind of music you like? Sure, you’re a sophisticated sort and make certain that Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is prominently [...]

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Ever have that moment your trying to walk a friend through a PC problem across the country, and really wishing you could take control of the situation and just fix it. Then you have to walk them through installing some software and opening ports on the router.
This usually ends up, with one of [...]

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Since purchasing the Samsung Blackjack in September there are a couple things that have cropped up. The battery life, as suggested on many other sites is finally coming to lite. I get about a day on the standard battery. With waking up at 7am the phone is on my side from then [...]

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My wife and I decided that desktops hog up to much space in our house. With having 2 desktops running it took up almost an entire room for desks and chairs and everything that went with them. So we setup a plan to accommodate our network so [...]

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