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Murfreesboro Electric Wants To Save You Money

Murfreesboro Electric Wants To Save You Money

Murfreesboro Electric Department wants to make sure you know how to conserve cash by conserving power. Organized in 1939 as a municipal, customer-owned utility, Murfreesboro Electric Department is one of 159 members and distributors of power from the Tennessee Valley Authority. While Murfreesboro Electric Department’s website looks like [...]

Digital Planet: 2 Stores, 16 years of Entertainment

Digital Planet: 2 Stores, 16 years of Entertainment

For sixteen years, Michael Morrison’s Digital Planet has been making life more entertaining in Murfreesboro.  Now with two locations, one on West College Street and the other on Robert Rose Boulevard, Digital Planet offers 4200 sq. ft. of music, movies, games, and posters to those willing to shell out a few bucks. Savvy shoppers, by the way, [...]

NASA Comes To Murfreesboro; Murfreesboro goes to Turkey

NASA Comes To Murfreesboro; Murfreesboro goes to Turkey

NASA has been teaming up with Murfreesboro City Schools to teach students about the universe, and as one part of the program comes to an end, another is just beginning. On May 11th, Mrs. Mall’s and Mrs. Pepelea’s classes had to be in their seats early — at 6:45 in the morning — for a videoconference with NASA and a sister class in [...]

Things to Consider about Digital Signage System Security

Things to Consider about Digital Signage System Security

For those who are looking to install digital signage networks, remember that “it is imperative that great care be taken by anyone looking to get into this business to ensure that the integrity of the content is impenetrable by outside forces.” said Rex Williams, President of UDN, which installed the New York network of LED displays over 80 of [...]

Dual Monitors for Dual Focus as Bill Gates goes Nuclear

Dual Monitors for Dual Focus as Bill Gates goes Nuclear

Looks like Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates may have an evil genius side after all. He is helping to fund an energy start-up that may hold the key to ultra low emission and maintenance mega power production. Intellectual Ventures is the name of the company that is partially funded by Bill Gates and has a unit called TerraPower. TerraPower, [...]

FTC says Google’s Buzz may contribute to Privacy Issues

FTC says Google’s Buzz may contribute to Privacy Issues

Things are getting stirred up at the Federal Trade Commission. Pamela Jones Harbour an outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner had a few things to say about Google in a series of three FTC privacy roundtables held this month. Harbour who is scheduled to leave the agency in April, delivered remarks that had some choice words for the Internet giant. [...]

New DirectX 11 video graphics technology is available!

New DirectX 11 video graphics technology is available!

With the new DirectX 11 API and a full range of DX11 cards available; many of which have been the talk of the industry long before their release, ATI is set to take your computer monitors to a whole new dimension. With a new line up of benefits ranging from 3D thread dispatch, more efficient shared memory, and up to 33% more simultaneous threads [...]

Some good benefits with the Adam over the iPad

Some good benefits with the Adam over the iPad

If you ever need to break away from the office and still maintain your computing necessities, you might already be wondering about a tablet PC. If you think the iPad is something that you might consider buying, then you may want to consider its main rival competition. Introducing the Notions Ink “Adam” tablet an Android-based device using [...]

Joel Smith – Murfreesboro Graphic Web Designer & Artist

Joel Smith – Murfreesboro Graphic Web Designer & Artist

I can help you with any of your Graphics Design projects!Contact Joel: joel@mediacobbler.comJoels's Website: Murfreesboro Graphic Design I do freelance print and front-end web design for several folks in and around the middle Tennessee area. I jump at the chance to make anything interactive and video production is the bees-knees especially if I [...]