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Granted it’s barely a mention and it’s not wikipedia, but someone included me (and this blog) in a Armeniapedia entry. If you click on Armenian Online Journals, and look about two-thirds down the list, my blog is listed under Armenian who lives outside of Armenia.

I’ve never been in an encyclopedia, but years from now, my kids will be doing some research project on Armenian blogs and they will proudly share with their teachers and classmates about Daddy’s blog that gets mentioned in Armeniapedia.

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I recently stumbled upon Mailinator and it’s my newest favorite website. What Mailinator essentially does is give you a disposable email address that allows you to use when signing up on various sites. For example, you want to comment on a forum or register on a website, and the site requires email verification, you just pick up a disposable address at Mailinator and register.

Before Mailinator, I used to go through the painstaking process of using AddressGuard on my Yahoo account. With Mailinator, I can get an address quicker without the hassle of logging into my account and going through several screens of creating a disposable address. It’s bookmarked in my tool bar for quick and easy access.

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My Dell laptop is on it’s last leg. I am running out of space on my hard drive, the battery life is pretty much non-existent, my ethernet adapter is no longer working, and this past week my graphics card went bust. After three and a half years, I am a bit disappointed, particularly since I had a value to have this computer for five years, but not sure it’s going to last that long.

I am thinking of purchasing a Mac—especially that I can now run Microsoft Windows simultaneously. So I am now having to consider between two options—the [tag]Macbook[/tag] and the Macbook Pro. It seems to me that the Macbook has pretty much everything I need. For a thousand dollars more, I can purchase the Macbook Pro, but I’m not sure whether the extra grand warrants those extras.

The problem is that I’m the kind of guy who wants to buy the best if I can. On a cognitive level, it makes no sense spending more money for things that I probably don’t need. On an emotional level, I kinda want the best thing out there, especially if it’s going to last me a few years. And, I like how the Macbook Pro looks compared to the Macbook.

All to say, I need either your advice or your prayers…

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Fifth in my countdown of favorite, must-have freeware applications. Check out the previous review.

So with [tag]digital photography[/tag], most pictures probably need just a little bit of editing — maybe sharpening, removal of red-eye, or crop out that annoying person who thought sticking out his tongue while you and your significant other are capturing a moment. Whatever the case may be, you will want an easy to use program that can do just the basics. That’s why you need [tag]Picasa 2[/tag].

Picasa is a photo-editing program that is perfect for both amateur and professional. That’s right, professional! A buddy who is a up-and-coming wedding photographer swears by Picasa 2 and says many people in the field use it to do the editing they need for their pictures. I love how easy it is to use Picasa. It is very intuitive and has a very clean interface. It can find all of the pictures on your computer and will automatically organize them in albums. There are functions to upload to web albums and to even publish the pictures on your blog.

The main tools that I find myself using are the contrast, sharpening, and color correction ones (including turning a picture to a black and white picture). With this blog, I have attached my picture gallery, running [tag]Gallery 2[/tag] (another highly recommended [tag]freeware[/tag], by the way), and it is so easy to upload my pictures into my gallery and my blog. If you take digital pictures, then think of Picasa 2 as the only program you really need to make sure your pictures print or publish the exact way you intended.

Download here.

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