Posted 24 November 2009 · 11:22 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Sometimes there is a piece of software that is so obvious for a specific need that we make assumptions. We assume that everyone uses it and, if not, that those who don’t at least know about it and for some unreasoned purpose decide to use something lesser. A few products fit this description, [...]
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Posted 7 November 2009 · 10:50 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
The Motorola Droid officially dropped yesterday. It’s the first of several Android-powered devices coming to the Verizon network. Here’s a quick list of relevant phone features.
3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 480×854 resolution
5 mega-pixel camera with flash, zoom and focus
16 GB storage card, 256 MB of system RAM
Horizontal slider with on-screen and physical keyboards
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, e-compass
The Motorola [...]
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gadgets, hardwareAndroid, Apple, BlackBerry, Droid, google, iphone, iPod Touch, Motorola, Palm Pre, Verizon, Windows Mobile
Posted 10 August 2009 · 7:25 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
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Most of the topics we cover here on AuctioneerTech come from technology news. In the last couple of weeks, however, one of the stories that rose to the level of national consumer news is the FCC’s involvement in a dispute between Apple, AT&T and Google. In letters to each company, James [...]
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Posted 27 January 2009 · 11:08 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
Just a quick update for our RSS friends. Pictures have been added to Sunday’s post about the 2009 Kansas Auctioneers Association Winter Convention. We found a new picture gallery system that integrates with Google Picasa and uses a little Lightbox JavaScript system for some effects. Tell us what you think!
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Posted 31 December 2008 · 12:08 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
It’s time for a little year-end housekeeping. With all of the top lists being created regarding the previous year, we couldn’t help but join in with a top list and a review of everything we’ve done so far. Here are our top six posts that we like.
ATS designation – Auction Technology Specialist for auctioneers
Today is [...]
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announcements, communityApple, ATS, Auction Flex, auction podcast, AVG, Brandon Harker, Darron Meares, eBay, firefox, Flash, google, Google Docs, OpenDNS, PayPal, Rob Spectre, Robert Mayo, Skyfire, TrueCrypt, Ustream, W3 Schools, Wordpress
Posted 15 November 2008 · 9:05 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
One of the reasons AuctioneerTech exists is to make life easier for everyone, including auctioneers. One of the ways this goal is accomplished is by reviewing software that performs a novel or important function. Most of the software covered is open source, and in this episode, we’re going to discuss open source software, explain why [...]

Open Source Auctioneer [8:06m]:
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Podcasts, services, softwareAuction Technology Specialist, BlueGriffon, Evolution, firefox, GIMP, google, ie, Inkscape, Internet Explorer, Java, Linux, microsoft, microsoft office, NAA, Notepad++, open source, OpenOffice.org, PHP, Scribus, Thunderbird, Ubuntu
Posted 19 October 2008 · 7:33 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
Google is a mammoth company, slowly weaving its way into every corner of the Internet by offering free services that are better than the competing for-pay services. The development of these free services is not cheap, especially when Google allegedly requires only 80% of their employees’ attention through their Innovation time off program which encourages [...]
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Posted 30 September 2008 · 10:49 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
My HP Pavilion tablet PC is slowly dying. Sent to and returned from the shop twice already since I bought it 14 months ago, both times for a motherboard replacement, its hard drive started flaking on me last month. I was able to repair the hard drive with a disk utility and it’s been working [...]
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hardware, softwareAppRiver, firefox, Foxmarks, Gmail, google, IMAP, Lunarpages, MozBackup, Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Weave, PDFCreator, POP, Thunderbird
Posted 25 September 2008 · 9:42 am.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
As I was browsing my daily news feeds this morning, I came across an article about Skyfire.
I got my Treo 700wx based on Windows Mobile 5 in November of 2006. Its coolness lasted for several months, but I started wanting for more when the iPhone and Windows Mobile 6 came out. The biggest missing pieces [...]
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hardware, softwareAJAX, Flash, Gecko, google, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, iPod Touch, javascript, Safari, Skyfire, Symbian, Treo, Windows Mobile, Yahoo!
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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Posted 21 July 2008 · 6:18 pm.Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES View Comments
I was playing around on the NAA forum, a great member benefit for auctioneers, and I realized that what I was writing was applicable to just about anyone, not just auctioneers. Here you are, for whatever it may be worth to you.
I’ve been using Linux on the desktop for the last two years. It’s fantastic [...]
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community, hardware, softwareAdobe, CutePDF, Dell, Docs, firefox, Foxit, Gears, google, Linux, microsoft office, Mozilla Weave, openoffice, PDF, PDFCreator, Ubuntu, Vista, XP