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May 01

Cruzio.com website redesign Request for Proposal

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Introduction

Cruzio is revamping our award-winning website, cruzio.com and we're requesting proposals from local web designers and design teams to manage this project. It's been several years since we last overhauled cruzio.com, and we're excited to collaborate with our thriving tech community on the next step in our site's evolution.

Cruzio requires a

Jan 18

How to Make a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich, by Cruzio Customer Service

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Cruzio customer service has a challenging job. We need to help you with your computer, even though we aren't in the room with you. That means our staff needs to be very good at explaining things.
 
What does that have to do with Peanut Butter and Jelly, that classic of American Cuisine?
 
To keep staff up-to-date in our fast-changing industry, we spend a lot
Oct 01

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded to two Russian scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novo

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded to two Russian scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".

Andre Geim
Photo: Sergeom, Wikimedia Commons
Konstantin Novoselov
Photo: University of Manchester, UK

Andre Geim

Konstantin Novoselov

 
 
You can listen to the lecture delivered by Konstantin Novoselov at his
Jul 08

New Tech Meetup, July 6 2011

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Cruzioworks hosted a New Tech Meetup session, attended by many of Santa Cruz's geekiest citizens. The Meetup, headed by David Britton, always has interesting presentations and is a great way to meet other local technologists and see what's going on in town. If you haven't already, join at their website  -- it's easy and free of charge. 

The speakers:

Shane

Aug 12

Built@Cruzio

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Cruzio Now Builds Websites!

 Cruzio continues to win best website in local reader polls every year and we thought it was time to spread the moxie around.

Cruzio builds websites for small businesses, nonprofits, artists, musicians, and writers.

The Built@Cruzio program is a great way to establish your Web presence in as little as one to two weeks. We take pride

Apr 08

The Fiber Cut -- One Year On...

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Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the fiber-optic cable cut that left much of Santa Cruz in the dark for more than 24 hours. (Otherwise known as The Great Internet Outage of 2009.) In our debriefing meetings at Cruzio in the days and weeks following the incident we discussed what happened, why it had the impact that it did, and how to make sure it

Mar 02

Improve your online experience: upgrade your browser

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What's a browser?

It's the program you use to look at web pages. In fact, right now you are using one to look at this web page. Here's a fun, short video to explain:

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this video

Reasons to upgrade your browser

You're probably wondering what's wrong with the one you're already using. Here are some reasons to

Dec 01

Cruzio’s Computer Care: Killin’ the Trojans

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Here at Cruzio we're known to kill Trojans (the viruses, not the ancient Greeks, of course). Recently we were pleasantly surprised when a happy member that turned to us to clean out their computer sent over a cake to say thanks. Check out the message!

 

Cruzio’s Computer Care specialist, Andrew Martin says, “If your computer is running slowly, or you notice

Aug 11

Linkage: 35 awesome links for mid-8/09

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35 Stories: the hybrid Lamborghini, A.I. learning Super Mario Bros, the Apple Tablet, Cyborgs, DIY helicopter and many more! 

 Enjoy!

 

ISP's, Internet Standards & Tech

New Wi-Fi Standard Promises Blazing Fast Data Speeds

 

U.S. Says ISP Broadband Data to Remain Secret

 

 Burning Question: How Do I Future-Proof My Digital Media?

 

Ditch binary to make quantum

Jul 21

My Digital World Goes Virtual

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sims

My deepest, most concealed, most radical secret these days is that I am, in fact, addicted to The Sims 3. Believe me, I know it's not the hardest drug or the most self-destructive personal pursuit, but it is certainly worthy of mild concern. See, I never thought I'd be able to relate to the tech articles of yesteryear, or my mother for that matter, who can

Jun 30

Mini-Blog Day 1

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Emerging from the depths of internet waterspace surges another mini-blog, squirming electrically into the school of user-generated meta-material. What is it and what does it do? The mini-blog skips erratically-- it pauses to peruse, causes new pursuit, plauses two routes, yet flaws make it fluke. Mini-blog is the naked you. Write! Be free, let loose! The

Jun 12

The Twitpocalypse is coming!

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Twitpocalypse scheduled for 2pm Pacific time tiday -- are you ready?

Apr 16

Tax Day Merriment

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   I saw a lot of people out yesterday commemorating tax day and the Boston tea Party by making a connection from that time to now in one anti-tax/anti-government loathefest.  It's important to remember that the original participants in the 1773 event were not just protesting the injustice of being taxed by Parliament even though they couldn't vote for