I would like to invite everyone to check out my Facebook truck  group that's starting up. Has members from all over the United States that has a love for the 73-87 squarebody trucks. . So if you have interest in this type of vehicle, this would be a good place to join and get to meet people from your area. .

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Netflix is now letting U.S. users dial down the quality of streaming videos to avoid hitting bandwidth caps.

Users can choose from three quality settings by visiting the “Your Account” page on Netflix’s website and looking for the “Manage Video Quality” link. “Good quality” consumes up to 0.3 GB per hour, “Better quality” burns up to 0.7 GB per hour, and “Best quality” consumes up to 1 GB per hour for standard definition or 2.3 GB per hour for HD. The settings apparently apply to computers and televisions.

Netflix isn’t hiding its reason for offering the quality options: “We know that some of you have Internet data caps and we want to make it easier for you to manage how much data you use,” the quality management web page says. Most recently, AT&T instituted a 150 GB cap for DSL subscribers and a 250 GB cap for U-Verse subscribers.

What’s somewhat surprising to me is that Netflix isn’t publicizing the feature. As DSL Reports’ Karl Bode points out, Netflix added the quality management tool quietly, burying it on an account management page with no announcement. Netflix isn’t above shaming Internet service providers — the company publishes a chart of who streams the service fastest— so the fact that Netflix was driven to this point would seem like another way to paint itself as the consumers’ champion.

But Rich Karpinski at Connected Planet has a different take: Netflix “gets and keeps subscribers by delivering a high quality streaming video service,” he writes. “Limiting bandwidth limits its service.” So Netflix doesn’t want to let on that its streaming is anything less than high quality. If your service provider is putting a limit on usage, however, lower quality is a reality you might have to face.

Over the past several months, I've been restoring an 81 GMC Sierra Grande, LWB.  While online doing my research, I stumbled across a great website that is just starting up.  Loads of help and information about your 73-87 pickup models.  Just an all around great bunch of people.  Take a look.  www.squarebody.com

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An Internet Security Suite is a sound investment for your Windows PC, but it can be pricey. Finding the best Internet Security Suite that offers the most protection for your hard earned money is important. To save you time, money, and heartache, we've poured over the results of AV-Test.org's extensive testing of Internet Security Suites and provided our top picks for the best Internet Security Suites for 2011. To qualify, each Internet Security Suite had to score 4 or higher (out of a possible 6) for its combined effectiveness in detecting and removing malware.

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Danger signs are a great medium to protect the public from any untoward incidents. If you need a quick danger sign for your event, school, or your home, check out Danger Sign Generator. This simple web tool lets you create custom danger sign images which you can print and use anywhere.  Create Danger Signs On The Fly
 

Automate powering down your machine. "ShutDown After is simple program by use of which you can set timer or assign hotkeys for windows shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, stand by. This can prove very helpful in situations, when you want your computer to get shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, stand by after completion of some task or you want to perform shutdown operations by just key press

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Though Pfizer apparently initiated a recall of its popular cholesterol fighting drug Lipitor (aka Atorvastatin) in August, it only came to the public attention this week. Regardless, a total of 191,000 90-pill bottles of the drug have been recalled from pharmacies in the U.S. and Canada.

In its listing on the FDA website, it describes the reason for the recall as "Chemical Contamination: complaints of an uncharacteristic odor identified as 2, 4, 6 tribromoanisole."

2, 4, 6-tribromoanisole was also one of the culprits in this summer's recall of Tylenol products. It is a chemical that is produced when fungi break down a commonly used fungicide called 2,4,6-tribromophenol. In the Tylenol situation, it is believed that the contamination happened after the fungicide was used to treat wooden warehouse pallets.

But a rep for Pfizer says in a statement to CNN that the company "has been working closely with the bottle supplier to determine the cause of the odor problem and to rapidly address it."

The company also says that its own "medical risk assessment based on all the information we have has determined that the odor issue is not likely to cause adverse health consequences for patients."

Pfizer recalled 191,000 bottles of Lipitor for odor [CNN]

In the face of continued attacks targeting its hugely popular Gmail service, Google has put together a checklist to help Gmail users better secure their accounts by looking at the settings in their inboxes, their browsers and their PCs. The security guide doesn't automate any of these tasks for users, but instead gives them a guide comprising 18 steps to help lock down their Gmail inboxes.

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