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	<title>The MatriX Files &#187; Gadgets</title>
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	<description>a blog by Joanna Pineda, CEO, Matrix Group</description>
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		<title>My GPS Is Making Me Stupid!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an early meeting in Hyattsville this morning.  I was armed with my Garmin GPS and printed directions from Google Maps &#8212; I still got lost. I had to call my husband for extra navigational assistance.  He was incredulous on the phone: &#8220;Don&#8217;t you have Jane (the GPS) with you?  Did you follow the directions from Google?&#8221;  Yes and yes, but I was still lost.
How is this even possible?  For the last nearly 20 years (how did I get so old?), I have been in sales in the DC area.  I feel like I have driven to most corners of the region.  I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matrix Group&#8217;s Gift List for the Techies In Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the holiday season and if you&#8217;re looking for the perfect gift for the techie in your life, have no fear.  I polled the Matrix Group staff and they came through with these terrific suggestions:

Mini USB Monitor &#8211; Need a little more real estate on your monitor? You&#8217;ll love these mini monitors.
Lego Death Star &#8211; If you have a little one who loves Legos and you love Star Wars, you&#8217;ll enjoy making the Death Star together.
Our Network Administrators say that NetBooks are super hot this season.  NetBooks are a class of laptops that are super small, lightweight and inexpensive.  You can get them from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s So Cool About Cooliris?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered CoolIris, a browser plug-in that lets me surf images and videos in a cool, new way. Browser plugs-in are small pieces of software that extend the capabilities of your Web browser.  In this case, I downloaded the CoolIris plug-in for Firefox, installed it, restarted, and I was good to go.  So what&#8217;s so cool about this plug-in?
Cooliris lets me scroll through images and videos on my computer and sites that support Cooliris.  For example, if I want to browse photos from my son&#8217;s birthday party, I point Cooliris to the proper directory and the photos will appear as a wall of photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Became a Cool Kid and Why It&#8217;s All About the Platform</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/why-its-all-about-the-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 01:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the iPhone, Facebook, Twitter and Google have in common?  They have great platforms that have contributed greatly to their success!  What&#8217;s a platform and why does it matter?
Wikipedia defines a platform as &#8220;a place to launch software. It is an agreement that the platform provider gave to the software developer that logic code will interpret consistently as long as the platform is running on top of other platforms.&#8221;
I&#8217;m convinced that Facebook zoomed past MySpace because it launched a developer platform earlier.  The developer-friendly platform lets developers create zillions of cool apps and suck more of our time, energy and loyalty.  How many quizzes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standby Power: Is that Monitor Really Turned Off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last power bill, Dominion Power reported that &#8220;(n)ationally, 6 percent of our residential electricity consumption goes to &#8230; &#8216;phantom loads&#8217; used by devices &#8211; such as, VCRs, televisions, stereos, kitchen appliances &#8211; that are turned off and not in use.   Holy cow!   6 percent?!
I don&#8217;t know about you, but my power and gas bills  shock me each month.  At home, we upgraded our HVAC system to high efficiency Trane units; we have turned our thermostat down to 68 this winter; we have window film on bedroom windows; all of our light fixtures and lamps use compact flourescent bulbs; well, you get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Cybershot DSC-T777</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After taking over 15,000 shots I retired my old Sony digital camera and got this green little number. Love the high res images, long battery life, video mode, and smile detection.
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		<title>A Washing Machine That Tweets When the Wash Is Done?</title>
		<link>http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/a-washing-machine-that-tweets-when-the-wash-is-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/a-washing-machine-that-tweets-when-the-wash-is-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engadget posted a story about a guy who hacked his washing machine and got it to tweet (send a message via Twitter) when a load of wash is done.   Here&#8217;s the Twitter account for PiMPY3WASH, which I&#8217;m now following.
I guess it&#8217;s possible this is a true story.  I&#8217;m married to a guy who can install Linux (I mean NetBSD) on practically anything.  But I&#8217;m suspicious about this story for one reason: there&#8217;s too much laundry being done.  There were 3 loads done on December 30 and two loads on December 29.  That&#8217;s too much laundry, especially for a guy (no offense, guys!).
However, I&#8217;m excited about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matrix Group&#8217;s Favorite Tech Gifts This Holiday Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it&#8217;s December 5. I feel like I have tons of time before I celebrate Christmas with my family, but I know that I need to get on the ball with my holiday shopping.  So I asked my staff for their favorite gadget gifts; this is what I got back.  Some items are oldies but goodies, some are outrageous, all are loved by at least one Matrix Group staffer.

Japanese toilet &#8211; I&#8217;ve asked Santa for a Japanese toilet this year.  Japanese toilets have heated seats, front and back sprays (heated, too), blow dryers, and even music.  I cannot understand why they are not more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s an HD World</title>
		<link>http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/its-an-hd-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High Definition (HD) is everywhere. The Blu-ray format has won the HD DVD war and I&#8217;m seeing a lot more Blu-ray movies at my local video store and retail stores.  As I mentioned in a previous post, Apple TV and the PS3 now have HD videos on demand.
Earlier this year, Microsoft released Silverlight, their answer to Adobe&#8217;s Flash.  The official Web site describes Silverlight as &#8220;a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.&#8221;  I downloaded Silverlight in order to watch the Democratic National Convention live, in HD. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video on Demand from Apple and Sony Not Quite There Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/video-on-demand-from-apple-and-sony-not-quite-there-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpineda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks, my family and I had the opportunity to check out the video on demand services from Apple and Sony. We found the services to be easy to use and competitively priced, but there are still a few kinks to work out in the business models.
Apple TV vs. Sony PS3
Let&#8217;s start with the Apple service.  We have an Apple TV (we bought ours for $199), which is a device that hooks up to your TV and connects via wireless to your Macintosh computer.  Using the Apple TV, we can stream photos, music and podcasts to our big screen TV.  Perhaps [...]]]></description>
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