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Five Reasons Leaving Novell is A Tough Move

Posted on December 28, 2011 by robertmerrill

After two great years, it’s time for me to move on to a new opportunity*. This has been nothing short of a very challenging decision for me as I have loved the time I have had at Novell, even though … Continue reading →

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GroupMe Kinda Rocks Me

Posted on March 12, 2011 by robertmerrill

Summary: Text all your friends at once with this platform-agnostic group-messaging app. Feeling a little chatty? Call everyone by just dialing the group’s number. GroupMe just makes close group communication easy. Like twitter before it, my favorite bit of this … Continue reading →

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In Which I Want GoogleTV

Posted on October 7, 2010 by robertmerrill

I always wanted an Apple TV, but just couldn’t justify their walled-garden approach to my media. I’m hope-hope-hoping that GoogleTV, which was just launched and announced five months ago, will help me simultaneously free the media I have, and search/find/acquire … Continue reading →

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Secure Searching with Google

Posted on June 1, 2010 by robertmerrill

Alternate title: k6ZJ*vGqQDPKv%eF98MIBuh50@DP* Last week, Google unveiled a secure option for searching the famous search engine using SSL – Secure Sockets Layer (If you own a tin-foil hat, please click here) which means your connection to Google’s servers is encrypted–so … Continue reading →

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Verizon Android Tablet Mockups

Posted on May 13, 2010 by robertmerrill

Yeah, I kinda like that.  (especially the float-in-the-air-without-anyone-touching-it part. Is that an app?) Internet giant Google is working with US carrier Verizon Wireless on a tablet computer like Apple’s iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported. – via the Age

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Android Tablet Wanted

Posted on May 12, 2010 by robertmerrill

I would buy one. Please make it not suck.

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Insert, Collaborate on Drawings in Google Docs

Posted on April 13, 2010 by robertmerrill

Google announced that you can now add/edit/share drawings right online and embed them into your documents and presentations or share across the web. With this addition, the reasons for bulky, offline collaboration “office suites” is dropping like political approval ratings … Continue reading →

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What Are QR Codes?

Posted on April 7, 2010 by robertmerrill

I’ve been adding functionality to bring QR Codes to Utah Tech Jobs and soon hope to enable them across this website as well.  But not everyone who sees one of these codes will know what they are (or care). What … Continue reading →

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Novell Pulse Enables Inter-Company Collaboration via Google Wave

Posted on April 2, 2010 by robertmerrill

Google Wave launched amid serious hype. Getting my kids from school was less important than getting a Wave Invite. Then, after everyone got in there and sent their “hello world” waves, the thing kindof, well, died off a little (lot?). … Continue reading →

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Android Apps i Want

Posted on March 17, 2010 by robertmerrill

I have made the switch from Blackberry to Android (actually several months ago) and though it was rocky at first I am loving it more and more. Every once in a while I look for an app and I don’t … Continue reading →

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