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If you're heading home for the holidays and just can't stand to be untethered from your laptop while at Grandma's house, consider this collection of 100 Productivity Tools as your holiday present.

Nothing will make you more nervous than switching your entire business model to support a new technology :)  Particularly when that technology is ONLY supported by the Open Source community.  Regardless, it looks like we were right again - or at least not way off the beaten path.

Chris "Silver" Smith offers up a great article - "Forget Black Friday! Are You Ready For Holiday Season's Cyber Mondays?" regarding the onslaught of consumer madness when retailers do their best to extract as much creditworthiness from one's wallet.

Today, we had a client call us and ask if we can 'save' their website from an aggressive website designer that is holding their site hostage.  I told them yes and thought an easy solution would be to find a utility that allowed us to easily clone/grab their website.  I must say, I was surprised at the difficulty in finding a free utility to do this.

In the course of doing research for a client, I'm now experiencing what I've heard so many others complain about: Phone Prison. I used to believe that 'phone prison' was simply an older person's way of saying that working through a phone system took too much effort. Now I realize that there really are Phone Prisons - systems designed to keep you locked out from actually talking to a person!!!

Jeff Cornwall, Director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship teaches and mentors a class of entrepreneurship students.

Nicholas Holland, our CEO and President of CentreSource spoke to Jeff's class and offered up words of wisdom. They include the proper time to start up a business and focusing on a proper sales strategy.

At CentreSource, much of our web development utilizes the Drupal open source content management system. From custom websites to large scale corporate websites, Drupal offers many modules for flexibility, personalization, and customizable URLs that are search engine and end user friendly.

The technical definition of Drupal is:
Drupal is a web-based content management system. Text and pointers to other kinds of content are stored in a database, dynamically retrieved and composed, and presented to a user in response to a request sent via a web-browser.

Those whippersnappers at Google never rest! Google is introducing a new Web standard called OpenSocial designed to allow developers to build Web-based social applications that has made Facebook such an engaging site for developers and users alike.

Over time, social networks will organically grow to encompass any defined community online: families, schools, churches, clubs, groups, and businesses. Now if we could only connect socially face to face away from the computer screen, only then will our social networks be much more rewarding with the richness of personal relationships.

Ok... so we haven't had the best of luck with Sprint (see here, and here) and while our company is slowly moving toward AT&T due to "some device" that came out in the last few months, I do have to hand it to Sprint for be one of the first companies to actually release a "why hasn't somebody thought of this sooner" product.

The NY Times reports: "Record Mac Sales Help Apple Earnings Climb 67% in Quarter"

Apple reported fourth-quarter profit of $904 million, or $1.01 a share, up from $542 million, or 62 cents, in the quarter a year ago, an increase of 67 percent. Analysts had predicted profit of 85 cents a share.