Calling all chatters! The official IRC channel of CPAley’s Tech Blog is now up. If you don’t know what IRC is, it stands for Internet Relay Chat. Look it up on Wikipedia.

There are two ways to connect to our new IRC channel:

With a IRC client: connect to: irc.thenerdtv.com. Port: 6667. Channel: #Colby

Without an IRC client: point your web browser to http://cpaleytech.com/chat

Have fun!

How are you reading this post? You may, be reading it on your iPhone! Or any other major touchscreen smartphone. CPAley’s Tech Blog now uses WPTouch (WP as in WordPress) to bring you a super-fast mobile version of the blog.

Give it a try and tell me what you think in the comments!

As you may have noticed, http://cpaleytech.com has gone through some major changes. We have switched over to self-hosted WordPress with BlueHost and we got a brand new theme and layout. I am going to try making longer and more in-depth posts for the blog as well as posting a little more often. Also, you may have noticed that all the posts on the old blog are here too!

What do you think? Do you like the new blog? Have you ran in to any problems? If you think something should be changed or added please feel free to Email me at colby@cpaleytech.com

Happy Holidays everybody! Do you celebrate Christmas? If so, what did you get?? Here are a few things I got:

• Brookstone RC indoor helicopter
• Square brown chairs/storage compartments from Target
• Gboard
• Speck CandyShell case for iPhone 3G/3G S.
• Macy’s giftcard
• Burnout Paradice for Xbox 360.
• Star Wars music for Trumpet
• Radica U-Create music maker

How was your Christmas?

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Lately, Google Wave has been all the hype and has continuously been a trending topic on Twitter. I am going to tell you everything you need to know about Google Wave so you too can join the conversation.

Google is claiming that Google Wave is the next big thing. It seems like with Google Wave Google is trying to reinvent email which makes me wonder how Google Wave will turn out.

So what is Google Wave? Google Wave is a place on the internet, sort of like Gmail where you can have conversations with people. Unlike Gmail, Google Wave is all in real time. Google Wave also lets you use other websites and services right from your Google Wave page. For example, you can tweet and read other peoples tweets right from Wave.

Right now, Wave is invitation only but Google is probably going to open it up to the public soon.

Here is a short video by Google about Wave:

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So what do you think about Google Wave? Are you going to try it out when it comes available? If anyone has any invitations to give out I would certainly love one so I could test wave and do a review!

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By: Colby Aley

Hey you! Yes, you! How are you reading this blog post? Are you reading it via Email? Did you even know that you can get the latest posts from this blog by email? You can, and its easy too! What are you waiting for?

When you sign up to receive CPAley Tech Blog’s posts by email you will be emailed from 9 to 11 AM daily with the latest posts and you won’t need to come to cpaleytech.com whenever you want the inside scoop on tech.

Click here to subscribe to CPAley’s Tech Blog by Email!

By: Colby Aley

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I am proud to tell you that my friend Aqual is going to be joining me on this blog. He will be writing for the blog a little and he will also be working on the administrative stuff. Some posts will be written by me and some by Aqual. We are trying our best to make CPAley’s Tech Blog the best blog ever and having two people bringing you the latest news is a lot better than having one person.

If you have any questions you can emil me: colby@cpaleytech.com.

Thanks!

Amazon.com lowered the price on the Kindle 2 e-book reader form $359 to $299, letting future customers save $60. However the newer, Kindle DX’s price still remains $489. the Kindle DX features a 9.7″ screen, an upgrade from the Kindle 2′s 6″ screen and it also includes a PDF converter. Both the Kindles can wirelessly download books “in under 60 seconds” says Amazon.

A spokeswoman for Amazon told the Associated Press that that the price is permanent and will not raise. “We’ve been able to increase the volume of Kindles we’re manufacturing and decrease the cost of doing so,” she said.