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About Richard

Richard is a professional web developer and business consultant. He opened his first web hosting company at the age of 13 out of his bedroom on an ISDN connection and hasn't looked back since. Richard currently resides in sunny Florida.

What Ever Happened To RealPlayer?

July 8th, 2008

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One of my favorite media players when I hooked up my first computer to the Internet was RealPlayer. From streaming radio stations to movies, Real was where it was at. The first version of RealPlayer was introduced in April of 1995 as RealAudio Player which was one of the first media players capable of streaming […]

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Do You Care About iTunes DRM?

June 29th, 2008

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Back in the days of Windows 95 and “MMX” technology, you could purchase music from your favorite store that came on a disc (or tape). These mediums allowed you to play them in just about any device. From Sony to RCA, you could enjoy your music anywhere. It was, after all, your music. Play it […]

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Hate Vista? So Does Intel

June 26th, 2008

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With recent shipments of failure from the Microsoft camp, including a rather useless Service Pack 3 for aged XP and a “Reliability” Service Pack update for Vista SP1, their users have been speaking out for years since the release of Windows Vista in late 2006. And surprisingly (not), major companies are speaking out about just […]

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エスプレッソのレポート

June 26th, 2008

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We’re slowly updating this blog for 2009. I know, we’ve got a lot of work to do. Over the next week you’re going to start seeing slight to major changes in how we present this incoherency we call The Espresso Report. One of a few changes you might’ve noticed is that I’ve shortened the pages […]

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The “Free Mac” Offer’s Not For Me

June 20th, 2008

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I’ve been thinking for the past couple days about taking up one of these amazing website offers of absolutely “free” prizes just for completing some random offers. One of the biggest prizes and most popular happen to be Apple products. A free iPhone, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro, etc. A quick Google search undercovers multiple blog […]

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