Posted 28 July 2009 · 1:16 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Last October, we shot out a heads-up regarding an out-of-band update from Microsoft. An out-of-band update is one that is released outside of the patch Tuesday update schedule, the well-known pattern Microsoft has established for releasing updates to its products on the second Tuesday of each month.
Today, Microsoft has released another out-of-band update. [...]
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Posted 24 November 2008 · 9:00 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
I’ve spoken with many auctioneers recently who are at the beginning stages of a new technology project, usually a website redesign or new build of some kind. The questions everyone asks mostly revolve around the expectations they should have of the person or company being hired to build the website.
I’ve put together some content that [...]
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Posted 15 September 2008 · 8:28 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
You’re listening to the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast for the week of 15 September 2008.
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Hello and welcome to the third episode of the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast, tech roundup one. We’re going to cover some of the previous two weeks’ stories from auctioneertech.com. We’ll talk [...]

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Posted 11 September 2008 · 7:34 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
My friend and fellow auctioneer Don Hamit pointed out to me at the KAA auctioneer contest yesterday that the recently-released Chrome doesn’t work with the recently-funded real-time Internet bidding platform Proxibid. I was able to get the Proxibid Bidder App to run in Chrome on XP and Vista. Here’s how to get it, and other [...]
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Posted 9 September 2008 · 8:47 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
The tubes are full of baddies. It’s not enough anyomore to simply install an antivirus package and pay your yearly virus tax. Antivirus is becoming outdated. Granted, it’s still a requirement for all but the most elite computer users, but in the time of the always-on Internet connection we need to protect ourselves against all [...]
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Posted 8 September 2008 · 7:16 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
Google today, seemingly confident enough about their new browser, posted a link on their homepage for the download.
While a significant percentage of the news I read over the course of the last week involved Chrome and the browser wars, I’m guessing that the news escaped the average Fox News viewer.
Now everyone knows. Everyone who uses [...]
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Posted 2 September 2008 · 5:11 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
Google released its entry into the browser wars Today. I’ve been playing with it all day. I like how it puts the tabs in line with the minimize / maximize / close buttons. I’ve wanted this in a browser for years. They have a long way to go to enable other features, but it’s blazing [...]
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