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February 2006

Free Office 2003 for Small Businesses

by zeth 1337 February 28, 2006

You’ve got to hurry and register for this, but you can get a free copy of Office 2003 by listening to at least 3 webcasts over a 4 day period in mid-March an submitting brief evaluations of those webcasts.
This is an easy way to earn some great expensive software. I know this is not [...]

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Local Students Can Submit Teacher Feedback

by zeth 1337 February 28, 2006

This may cause some local disruption, but life’s short, right?

District 91 is near the end of their second trimester, so it seems a good time to let students in our area know they can give feedback about their teachers at a wonderful site called ratemyteachers.com. Local college students can rate their professors at a similar [...]

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There is life before Digg, and then life after Digg

by zeth 1337 February 27, 2006

You say you want a revolution?
Something big is happening, and you will regret it the rest of your life if you fail to take notice and take part now. That’s a big statement, and I don’t normally make such bold claims. This is different, though.
The revolution is Digg.com, a social news site. What is social [...]

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Stall Conversation

by the VP February 26, 2006

I had barely sat down when I heard a voice from the other restroom stall ask, “Hi, how are you?”
I’m not the type to start a conversation in the men’s restroom, but I replied in an embarrassed voice, “Doing just fine!”
The other guy said: “So what are you up to?”
I thought it was bizarre, but [...]

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Links Collection Coralled

by zeth 1337 February 26, 2006

IdahoFallz.com may be struggling to develop some things, but our links collection is THE BEST. There is no other place on the web that you will find this complete a collection of Idaho-related links (excluding commercial/business interests-because we do sell advertising).

We have finally tweaked the code to display the Idaho link collection on a [...]

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Twenty Great-Paying Jobs That Don’t Require Degrees

by the VP February 25, 2006

It is important for many Idahoans to develop great-paying income creatively since most of us do not hold four-year college degrees. (Isn’t it ironic that Idaho is ranked about 36th in adults completing a university education and 37th in annual income-could there be a correlation there?)
I hope CNN’s list of the twenty best-paying jobs [...]

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Puerto Vallarta is dependably delicious

by Joe Vandal February 24, 2006

Whenever I want good Mexican food, I know I can depend on Sol Rio or Puerto Vallarta. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems Sol de Rio is a corporate franchise, while Puerto Vallarta is locally-owned? Please post a comment to correct me if I am wrong on that.
So last night the family wanted great Mexican [...]

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Idaho Falls needs more parks

by the VP February 23, 2006

I read that 80% of Boise city residents live within 1/2 mile of a city park. I wonder what percentage of Idaho Falls city residents live within 1/2 mile of a city park. I am sure it is nowhere close to 80%.

I encourage our new mayor Jared Fuhriman and the city council to [...]

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Firefox more secure than IE

by zeth 1337 February 22, 2006

Security update frequency is yet another reason to use Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer. A recent study found that Microsoft generally takes much longer to fix security holes in IE than the Mozilla foundation takes to fix security holes in Firefox. Over the past year, IE takes an average of 135 days to [...]

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Never a dull moment

by BuddhAllahrist February 21, 2006

A guy dies, goes to He[[, and is bummed out about being there. Satan walks up and tries to cheer him up.
“It’s not that bad down here,” says the devil. “Do you like drinking?”
“Yeah, I like drinking,” replies the guy.

“Well, you’re going to enjoy Monday nights down here. We have open bars and every [...]

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Geek sheik

by zeth 1337 February 19, 2006

Geeks appear to be ‘in’ more than ever (please don’t beat me up for saying that).
First, they are increasingly running the world and making all the money. Then there are reality shows where babes compete to date geeks. Now I’ve come across some top then lists explaining why geeks make good friends and the [...]

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What about tonight

by Your Gal Friday February 16, 2006

…….So what’s about your night?. I mingled with self driven’ people that want more than they have, but enjoy all they are surrounded by. They sipped wine with friends, sat by the fire and in the constant background was nothing, but the beautiful sounds of laughter. I wonder what i [...]

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Marketing Lists are Failures

by Joe Vandal February 16, 2006

Supposedly marketing lists are being refined more intelligently to match product offers to customers more likely to be interested in certain products. I received an offer today that demonstrates that theory is baloney.
Today I received a mailed offer from a Colortyme ‘Rent to Own & Payday Loans’ in Blackfoot. It was clearly addressed to my [...]

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Control browsing experience by opening links in new tabs

by Joe Vandal February 15, 2006

If you are reading a webpage in the awesome Firefox browser, see a link you want to view, but don’t want to lose the page you are currently on; you can have your cake and eat it, too.

Simply right-click on the link and select the option Open link in new tab. Your original page [...]

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Force Popups to Behave in Firefox

by zeth 1337 February 15, 2006

We are all familiar with clicking on a link and it opens in a new browser window instead of in the same window. This is an intentional design by the webpage designer, and you may notice that IdahoFallz.com uses it on most of our links going to external sites.
The problem with this is [...]

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Perverted-Justice.com Nabbed Idaho Falls Pervert

by Joe Vandal February 14, 2006

Here’s a heart-warming Valentine’s Day story. It involves an Idaho Falls guy who used his boss’ Internet connection to prey on underage girls for sex. Fortunately for our society, a proactive website exists that exposes these jerks. The site is perverted-justice.com, and they have even been featured on NBC’s Dateline for their effectiveness against sexual [...]

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Firefox is what’s happening now on the web

by zeth 1337 February 13, 2006

If you are still somewhat frustrated with surfing the Internet and you are still using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as your browser, don’t you think the two could be correlated?

The free Firefox browser provides a much better surfing experience than Internet Explorer, and has a pop-up ad blocker built in by default. Next to the [...]

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Feel free to ask technology questions

by zeth 1337 February 12, 2006

If you have any technology question, feel free to use our contact form to ask, and one of our writers will try to answer in a future post. Consider this your free community tech-support. (By the way, if you really appreciate the help, we always accept donations via the Paypal links in the sidebars or [...]

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New neighborhood streets to educate

by BuddhAllahrist February 12, 2006

Unless I’ve missed it, Idaho Falls seems to be lacking very many streets named after U.S. presidents. There appears to be no Arthur, Buchanan, Bush (Sr. or Jr.), Carter, Clinton, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Fillmore, Ford, Grant, Harrison (Ben or William), Hayes, Hoover, Kennedy, McKinley, Monroe, Pierce, Polk, Roosevelt, Taft, Truman, Tyler, or Van Buren. Whether you [...]

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Local Photographers Can Sell Pics Onlne at iStockphoto.com

by zeth 1337 February 11, 2006

Here’s a great way to earn some money from your creativity: sell your photos online at istockphoto.com. You have to register for free, pass a short tutorial to get accepted, then upload your pics according to specified minimum quality settings. You add descriptive ‘tags’ that help your pics get found by the site customers. Finally, [...]

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Hope for locals with ADD

by BuddhAllahrist February 10, 2006

These two articles showcase how ADD can be an asset to incredible success rather than a liability. The key is to work in nontraditional ways, and not to get bogged down in normal jobs that don’t take advantage of ADD characteristics.
The two articles are 151 positive attributes of ADD and top 10 advantages [...]

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Craig Makes Post Office Experience Exceptional

by Joe Vandal February 10, 2006

There’s a guy who works the desk at the Eagle Rock Post Office named Craig who is awesome. He is always cheerful and joking around and works very quickly to help customers. Every time I have to stop in there I am impressed with his great attitude. Kudos to you, Craig.

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Idaho Farm Fields Can Be Satellite Billboards

by BuddhAllahrist February 10, 2006

Word has been going around the net recently about businesses advertising on large rooftops (whether painted or large tarps) in an effort for those ads to be captured by satellite and being displayed to millions via Google Maps. Now it looks like someone decided to put a large swear word in a farm field, for [...]

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To save a chicken is divine?

by Joe Vandal February 8, 2006

A recent comment was made questioning how progressive Idaho Falls was, and I thought this story certainly distinguishes us from how backwards some parts of America are. IdahoFallz.com is focused locally, but this just makes you shake your head. As reported on CNN, a former nurse has apparently brought a dead chicken back to life [...]

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Valentine’s Day Group Kiss

by BuddhAllahrist February 7, 2006

A fun thing for Idaho Falls-area couples to do on Valentine’s Day would be to gather in a large group somewhere and everyone kiss their partner at the same time. Yeah it’s cheesy, but for couples it would be fun, and guys it would mean a lot to your ladies to take her to such [...]

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