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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: The Killers
When you think of Las Vegas, images of casinos, money and bright lights come to mind. Sure, maybe a few musical acts too, but they tend to be the show tunes—you know, Wayne Newton type of music—not necessarily the stuff you hear on current radio. You don’t often hear of up-and-coming bands playing the side stages of Vegas hoping to get noticed by a major label…but that’s exactly what happened for today’s $5 album and featured band, The Killers.
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Seen on Pinterest: Gluten Free for Beginners
We’ve recently discovered that a member of our family has Celiac Disease — the condition that causes an intolerance to wheat based products or those containing gluten. In helping our family member come up with new ways to re-engineer their lifestyle, we turned to Pinterest to catalog our recipes and common gluten-free conversion options. Whether you too have been asked to try gluten free for health reasons or are simply testing the trend like we are in solidarity, here are a few of our favorite resources for this week’s “Seen on Pinterest” column.
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Weekly tech news roundup for September 20
This week’s news highlights: Microsof buys Minecraft (and set the gaming community into a freakout), an astrophysics professor invents a $110 earthquake early warning device, and Microsoft announces a Windows event for September 30th. Also, check out a new reasonably-priced fitness tracker from Misfit and a leaked picture of a new Kindle e-reader called the Voyager (maybe it’ll be released in time for the holidays?).
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Consumer Alert: new phishing scam uses fake virus warnings
Our Remote PC Support team is getting reports of a new kind of malware making the rounds on the Internet you need to know about. Find out what the scam looks like, what victims are being told, and how to fix it.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: The Black Crowes
Today’s highlighted band, The Black Crowes is no slouch when it comes to carrying the torch for southern roots. Hailing from Marietta, Georgia, they understand and have been influenced by all the great acts of their generation, and the generation before them. Their’ initial release, Shake Your Money Maker, is an album that you could easily describe as an instant classic—it has sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. alone. If you’re not one of those who bought it back then, you can rejoice that now you can get it for much cheaper than most of those millions.
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