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For DC’s working homeless, here’s a post from TBD.com titled “20 work-friendly coffee shops near Washington, D.C. (Map)”: Whether you can’t stand working in the office, or you just need to find a place to get online and have a drink, you will at some point find yourself looking for a work-friendly coffee shop nearby. [...] A colleague working abroad wanted to get streaming Internet content (videos from Netflix and Hulu, music from Pandora). But those services only have content distribution deals for US customers so they block non-US subscribers. How can those services be tricked? By connecting through a US server. Here’s how. VPN A Virtual Private Network or VPN [...] There are several MiFi devices out there these days but none as cheap as the one by Virgin Mobile. A MiFi allows you to get on a cellular network via your devices WiFi. Your laptop or iPad has WiFi but probably not built-in cellular network support. This bridges that gap. You can also use up [...] Mapnificent is a new site using Google Maps that finds out where you can get to in a certain amount of time. It accounts for you using public transportation and you can tell it in the settings that you have a bike. It’s great for exploring restaurants near you, but in a direction that you [...] It would be easy to dismiss the new MacBook Air as slow due to its apparently slow processor but if you did, you’d be wrong. Offerings The new Air comes in 4 base models. $994 – 11.6″ 1.4GHz CPU 64GB storage $1194 – 11.6″ 1.4GHz CPU 128GB storage $1294 – 13.3″ 1.86GHz CPU 128GB storage [...] |
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