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  John Pope Lead Editor/Moderator
  21 Posts	About John Pope, a.k.a. JohnP@Dell, has been involved with social media since 2006 and computers since, well, let's just say... Recent Posts New One-Stop Warranty Service Available to U.S. Consumers Web Cams on Ubuntu? Easy as Saying Cheese 100 Things to Better Brand Yourself Online Online Conversations Circa 2138 And the Most Dangerous Web Domain for Web Surfers is …

  

  Jay Pinkert Raconteur

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  About To paraphrase the Bard, some are born great bloggers, some achieve great blogging and some have blogging greatness thru... Recent Posts The ROI on GPS Dell Dock Rocks (and/or Rolls) with Its Own Momentum Dell (PRODUCT) RED laptops now available with Windows Vista Home Premium Color (Connect and Organize) My World: Dell launches the “Studio” brand and Dell Dock Surf the Web at 30,000 Feet … Possibly on a New Dell XPS

  
  

  Natalie M. Davis Manager, Global Operations for Community Team
  11 Posts	About Natalie and her team engage in conversations on Dell and non-Dell social media sites. She has over 10 years of marketi... Recent Posts Protect It, Without Comprising Chic Geek Style Wishing Prosperity, Wealth to the Superstitious Olympic-Bound Chic Geek A Girl’s New Best Friend: The Price-Is-No-Object Mobile Phone Le Chic Geek, Sur La Plage Green with Envy of the Eco-Chic Diva

  

  John Blain Gaming Guy
  9 Posts	About John has been active in social media at Dell since April of 2006, starting with the blog outreach team, and now as the ... Recent Posts Memory Lane: The Making of a Gaming Griefer In Search of Joe Average Gamer PC Gaming on a Budget There’s a Fine Line Between Gamer and TV Producer, Apparently The Keyboard Concern

  

  Anne B. Camden Consumer Product PR
  8 Posts	About Anne has been with Dell Corporate Communications for 10 years, proudly practicing product PR the entire time. Started o... Recent Posts So Easy Your Mom Can Do It Drinking From the Fire Hose Dell’s "Excellent" Desktop PCs Something from Dell at D6 Calling All Gamers…

  
  

  Chris Byrd Digital Life Liaison
  7 Posts	About Chris works closely with the online community on all things "digital life" and is known on Twitter as @ChrisBatDell. Wh... Recent Posts Hey DJs! It’s the Million DJ March Techno Tots – Graco iMonitor BLIP – What Are You Listening To? IndiFlix Presents MyFestival Reebok NXT Speaker Backpack vs. the Boom Box

  

  Randy Gibson Imaging & Display Guy
  5 Posts	About Randy is a technical writer and senior analyst for the Dell Solution Network. A nine-year veteran of Dell, he specializ... Recent Posts Your One-Stop Solution for Photo Editing New Options for Home Theater Inkjet Printer Tips for Great Photo Quality Pain-Free Wireless on the Way Print Photos You Want Fast and Easy

  

  Jesse Leonard Vista and Ubuntu Linux Liaison
  4 Posts	About Jesse Leonard, a.k.a. Dell-Jesse_L within the online Dell community, has been involved in the Dell Forums for eight yea... Recent Posts Firefox 3 Download Day Logs More than 8 Million Takers Firefox3 Update Latest Mozilla Firefox 3 Update Firefox 3 Fans Target World Record for Downloads

  

  RichardatDELL Two Ears, One Mouth Advocate
  4 Posts	About After a career in Canadian politics, Richard moved to the U.S. to build out a career in communications. He joined Dell ... Recent Posts RichardatDELL Finds a More Beautiful Way to View Photos on the Web That Dreamy Infrared Photographic Feeling Returns, Thanks to LifePixel Geotagging Your Photos Online Photo Fun

  

  

  Richard Bernier Dell Community Security Liaison
  3 Posts	About I have been with Dell for five years; two of those have been spent with the conversations group. You may have seen me o... Recent Posts Show a Little Laptop Love! Same Phish, Different Scales Look Out for Phishing E-mails

  

  Winnie Wong Alienware Marketing Communications
  2 Posts	About Winnie has been a part of the Alienware family since 2000, when there were only 64 employees on the payroll. Her passio... Recent Posts Microtransactions Becoming Major Issue with Gamers First Sighting

  

  Lionel Menchaca Chief Blogger
  2 Posts	About Lionel Menchaca (LionelatDell in Twitter) has lived and breathed social media for the last couple of years and wishes ... Recent Posts Alternative to Roku for Streaming Netflix Vista Tip: Use Snipping Tool for Screen Captures

  

  Ed Hassinger Software Engineer for Austin-based NetQoS
  2 Posts	About It feels like I bought my first "IBM-compatible PC" just last year. And despite two decades and stints with nine failed... Recent Posts Windows Vista + Windows XP: The Best of Both Worlds The Vista Media Center PC – This Isn’t Your Father’s DVR

  

  Jacqui Zhou Lead Editor/Moderator of Direct2Dell Chinese (http://chinese.direct2dell.com/)
  2 Posts	About Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Jacqui always wanted to travel and see the world. After she earned a college degree... Recent Posts “Bandit” Cell Phones: Part II “Bandit” Cell Phones Find Favor Among Chinese Consumers

  

  Ellen Murphy Consumer Public Relations, EMEA
  1 Posts	About Ellen works on the Consumer PR team in EMEA. She has nine years of marketing and communications experience, ranging fro... Recent Posts Dell UK Formula 1 Test Day Event at Silverstone

  

  Bob Blomquist Senior Manager, Electronic Media
  1 Posts	About Bob has spent 15 years at Dell working in a number of communications roles ranging from video productions to broadcast ... Recent Posts Social Network for Pedal Mashers

  

  Ricardo Guerrero Global Online Project Manager & "Twitter Dude"
  1 Posts	About Hailing from Colombia, South America, Ricardo has worked at Dell since 1999 as a content developer, and most recently ... Recent Posts Twitter: It’s Not Just TMI About Your Friends!

  

  Dawn Lacallade Lead Stormchaser
  1 Posts	About Dawn has been with Community for several years and is currently the Lead Stormchaser for Dell Ideastorm. She has been w... Recent Posts Wii Fit: Who Says Exercise Can’t Be Fun?

  

  MoneyGuyBK
  1 Posts	About MoneyGuyBK is one of our most active and helpful customers on the Dell Community Forum, where he has earned “Supersta... Recent Posts You and Your Idle PC Can Help Humanity

  

  Jennifer Allison Global Consumer Internal Communications
  1 Posts	About Jennifer joined Dell’s Corporate Communications group in 2006 to focus on executive and employee communications for t... Recent Posts Separating Ourselves from the Animals

  

  Matt Parretta Dell Analyst Relations
  1 Posts	About Matt has been at Dell since 2006 and is responsible for relationships with consumer industry analysts. He spent four ye... Recent Posts Photography PhD Not Required

  

  Eric Erway Program Manager, Global Online
  1 Posts	About Eric serves as a program manager for Dell’s Global Online team, working with multiple groups to translate customer re... Recent Posts Making Technology Work for You

  

  Rick Scott
  1 Posts	About Rick is a PADI open water scuba instructor and photographer. He splits time between his home in Austin and his ranch ne... Recent Posts For Under $500, Gear Up for Amazing Underwater Shots

  

  Todd Smart Dell Community Outreach Administrator
  1 Posts	About My job is to support our Community Liaisons as they help to resolve customer issues. I’m originally from Western New ... Recent Posts Wireless Networking is Great, But There Are Practical Concerns

  

  Jennifer Hughes Community Content Manager
  1 Posts	About Jennifer leads the content coordination for Dell’s social media properties. She has been involved with social media s... Recent Posts Technology to Tri

  

  Geoff Knox Supervisor, Global Operations for Community Team
  1 Posts	About Geoff has been with Dell since 2005 and has been working with Dell’s social media efforts since 2006. He has been a f... Recent Posts To Be, or Not To Be, on the Vista SP1 Bandwagon?

  

  aikiwolfie Frequent Contributor to IdeaStorm
  1 Posts	About I got my first Atari when I was only 2 years old - 1980 I think - and I've had a computer of some kind ever since. Past... Recent Posts Thoughts on Simplifying IT and After-Sales Support

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  • Hey DJs! It’s the Million DJ March
  • Show a Little Laptop Love!
  • In Search of Joe Average Gamer
  • Web Cams on Ubuntu? Easy as Saying Cheese
  • Protect It, Without Comprising Chic Geek Style
  • Memory Lane: The Making of a Gaming Griefer
  • The ROI on GPS
  • New One-Stop Warranty Service Available to U.S. Consumers
  • Windows Vista + Windows XP: The Best of Both Worlds
  • Microtransactions Becoming Major Issue with Gamers

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  • Basically I like the Dell Dock,
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  • Now you can download it from
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  • It's available for all Dell
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    I'm not impress...

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About: Jay Pinkert Raconteur To paraphrase the Bard, some are born great bloggers, some achieve great blogging and some have blogging greatness thrust upon them. I don't know where -- or whether -- I fit in that spectrum, but I hope my eclectic interests and penchant for telling stories with a lot of digressions serve me well. I've toiled in the vineyards of high technology for many enough years, and look forward to sharing a bountiful harvest of ideas.

Recent Posts

1. The ROI on GPS July.1.2008_11:33 am

   Categories: GPS, Reviews, Tips

   With the average price of gas well above $4/gallon (and closing in on $5), the cost of getting lost or wasting time looking for an address is at a historical high — and the return on investment of a good GPS system gets more attractive. Great deals make these cunning devices even more attractive.
   With favorable […]

3. Dell Dock Rocks (and/or Rolls) with Its Own Momentum June.27.2008_8:29 pm

   Categories: Desktops, Laptops, Operating Systems

   So it looks like we had two hits in one this week: the new Studio laptops and the Dell Dock.
   We knew Studio’s design and features would catch people’s interest, but Dell Dock, which premiered with Studio, turned out to be a stealth sensation and has its own online trajectory. We even scooped Engadget, with Paul […]

5. Dell (PRODUCT) RED laptops now available with Windows Vista Home Premium June.27.2008_2:59 pm

   Categories: Desktops, Laptops

   Thanks to great feedback and suggestions directly from customers on ways to enhance Dell’s (PRODUCT) RED offerings, you now can choose either Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED or the standard version of Windows Vista Home Premium when you purchase a Dell XPS M1330 (PRODUCT) RED or XPS M1530 (PRODUCT) RED laptop.
   If you’re unfamiliar with (RED), […]

7. Color (Connect and Organize) My World: Dell launches the “Studio” brand and Dell Dock June.26.2008_4:01 pm

   Categories: Connectivity, Design, Fashion, Laptops, Music, Photography, Security

   It’s all over the interwebs already, but in case you haven’t heard, Dell made a pretty big –and colorful – splash today with the launch of Studio—a sleek, colorful and nicely loaded new product line designed to unleash the blogger/poet/novelist/artist/scrapbooker/YouTuber/Annie Leibovitz in all of us.
   The first tranche of systems in the new line is two […]

9. Surf the Web at 30,000 Feet … Possibly on a New Dell XPS June.18.2008_12:33 pm

   Categories: Connectivity, Laptops

   Frequent flyers have been waiting for the day when they can check e-mail and surf the Web while flying – making use of valuable time spent in the air. JetBlue has responded with BetaBlue, a new service that allows travelers to access Wi-Fi in-flight.
   That’s right, no more sneaking your BlackBerry between flight attendant passes. You […]

11. Hi-Def Staycation Enjoyment for the Summer May.29.2008_12:12 pm

    Categories: HDTV

    While Word Spy cites a story by Terry Massey in the July 11, 2003 Myrtle Beach Sun-News as the term’s origin, for me the “staycation” phenomenon — spending time enjoying the joys of home instead of costly travel –  was born Memorial Day Weekend 2008.
    With the end of the rapid ascent of fuel prices nowhere […]

13. Death Cab for Cutie Take Over Stereogum May.20.2008_2:22 pm

    Categories: Music, Social Media

    Our SXSW co-hosts at indie music blog Stereogum are trying something really interesting today. They’ve turned over the blog to members of Death Cab for Cutie, who are “trolling YouTube, refreshing The Hype Machine, and surveying all the news crossing Stereogum’s RSS” in support of their latest album, Narrow Stairs.
    It’s a really cool approach to […]

15. Get Your Kicks May.12.2008_1:53 pm

    Categories: Design, Fashion

    At the risk of offending my good friends in the Dell Consumer online team, I think sneaker companies are kicking some serious a** when it comes to usability and brand experience in online product configurators. My recent search for the perfect sporty casual shoe led me to several Web sites that offered not only great […]

17. Long Lens Lotto: “Online Studio” Offers Shot at $2 Million Film Budget May.7.2008_4:56 pm

    Categories: Film

    My good friend Wim Wenders (actually, I only met him once, at the “Wings of Desire” L.A. premiere, but he seemed nice) reportedly is one of the judges for a film contest site called Filmka.com. The Movie Blog notes that:
    “Former Fox TV exec Sandy Grushow has joined with ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ producer Deepak Nayar […]

19. Tickle Mom Pink May.6.2008_4:20 pm

    Categories: Design, Fashion, Laptops, Photography, Storage

    I might be sensitized because of the hoopla, but since the launch of pink XPS 1330 and 1530 versions last week, I’ve begun noticing that pink is positively pervasive online and off. I thought it might be a spring thing, but according to some trend watchers, pink’s now a year-round fashion staple for women, and […]