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	<title>Nicom IT Solutions Blog &#187; Product Review</title>
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	<description>Nicom IT Solutions Inc. is a full service IT professional services firm providing Software Development, IT Consulting, E-commerce Solutions, Technical Support, and Web design &#38; Development in addition to staffing services.</description>
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		<title>Ruby on Rails Makes Programmers Happy</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2011/05/ruby-on-rails-makes-programmer-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 11:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my Chief Technology Officer walks into one of our Friday meetings and tells me he’s started a special interest group for users of Ruby on Rails.
Who, on what? And for that matter, why?
Let’s start with the why. All day long, he works with corporate systems like SharePoint and Microsoft Office, so for fun he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Computer Users Love Their Machines</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2010/08/apple-computer-users-love-their-machines/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2010/08/apple-computer-users-love-their-machines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I found a book laying around the house: 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. I can just picture the author taking his last Earthly gasp and uttering “Darn! I’m missing a couple of Tintorettos.”
Being neither an artist nor an academic might explain why I don’t own any books like that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H&amp;R Block Tax Software Makes Completing Personal Tax Returns Simple</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2010/02/hr-block-tax-software-makes-completing-personal-tax-returns-simple/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2010/02/hr-block-tax-software-makes-completing-personal-tax-returns-simple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you how it will be;
There&#8217;s one for you, nineteen for me.
&#8216;Cause I’m the taxman.
 - George Harrison
Towards the end of April each year, oldies radio stations tend to play the Taxman song a lot. According to their Anthology, the Beatles paid upwards of 95% income tax, which was the inspiration for the song.
Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 is About Simplicity and Responsiveness</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/10/windows-7-is-about-simplicity-and-responsiveness/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/10/windows-7-is-about-simplicity-and-responsiveness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Miller is a brave soul. He is one of the senior technical support people at my company Nicom and he likes to use test versions of software long before they are ever released to the public.
So David has been using Windows 7 for months now as his main operating system, even though it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Laptops Easy on Back and Pocketbook</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/09/mini-laptops-easy-on-back-and-pocketbook/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/09/mini-laptops-easy-on-back-and-pocketbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really &#8220;get&#8221; shopping at Costco. For starters, you have to pay to become a member, which essentially means you need to buy the right to become their customer.
Then when you get there, you feel you have to buy in quantities that rival army rations. And on your way out, they practically frisk you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Fun &#8211; Custom Headphones from iFrogz</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/09/summer-fun-custom-headphones-from-ifrogz/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/09/summer-fun-custom-headphones-from-ifrogz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that&#8217;s great about having a technology column is that people send you cool toys to try out. One such sample that I recently received was a set of customizable headphones by iFrogz (www.iFrogz.com). I don&#8217;t use headphones myself so I got one of our web developers to try them out. He&#8217;s a real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Free Long Distance Calling, Skype’s the Limit</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/04/for-free-long-distance-calling-skype-is-the-limit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/04/for-free-long-distance-calling-skype-is-the-limit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were working on an important proposal just at the time when my business partner, Dave Nicholson, and his wife Judy were scheduled to travel to Mexico on vacation. Since Dave’s job is to keep me from giving away the farm, it was important for us to collaborate on this proposal no matter where in the world he happened to be at the time. So we decided it was a good time to try out some long distance Internet telephone usage.

We agreed ahead of time when Dave would be available for a call, and when I contacted him I found him (naturally) in a bar. Judy was using his laptop at the time, so she informed Dave that his computer was “ringing”.

When we connected I was amazed at how clear he sounded – except that his voice was much deeper, and he sounded like one of those deep synth disk jockeys. “Hellooowrmph!” I guess when his voice was broken up, sent through cyberspace and put back together – sort of like those transporters on Star Trek – something must have happened to enhance it.
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		<title>Product Review &#8211; Three Smartphones and a High Speed Network</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/09/product-review-three-smartphones-and-a-high-speed-network/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/09/product-review-three-smartphones-and-a-high-speed-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently dropped three new smartphones on the desktops of our technical support representatives at Nicom IT Solutions, and they immediately went to town with them. The devices, compliments of Andrew Sherbin of Rogers Communications, are the Nokia N95, the Blackberry Bold, and the Apple iPhone. All three were configured to work with Rogers’ 3G [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Review: The Little DVD Player That Could</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/02/product-review-the-little-dvd-player-that-could/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/02/product-review-the-little-dvd-player-that-could/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tablet PC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vista]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about having a technology column is that you get to play with
cool toys. The latest one to cross my desk is an ultra-slim DVD reader/burner for
people on the go.
For a while now computers have been made without any diskette drive and many laptop
computers come without a DVD drive. Because so [...]]]></description>
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