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SOLD, this home is no longer available.

FOR SALE BY OWNER:
This immaculate Ranch was designed for entertaining.
For more information please visit: www.10DedhamRoad.com
Location: Warwick, Rhode Island

The new 400 square foot kitchen features gorgeous solid wood hickory cabinets with cherry hardwood floors, ample storage, and a built-in china/serving cupboard off the large dinning area. The impressive vaulted ceilings and skylight adds to the natural lighting throughout the home.

The kitchen leads out to a 928 square foot multi-level cantilever deck with spindle and ball posts. The deck wraps most of the rear of the home, seats 25-30 guests, and over looks a tranquil brick patio and flowered landscaping. The deck offers and alcove perfect for grilling that allows access to the main foyer/entrance to the home.

The living room has circa cherry hardwood floors, a wood burning brick fireplace and historic style mantel.

The 15×25 family room is wrapped in solid oak with many built-in cabinets. It’s vaulted ceiling, lighting, and surround-sound connections are set up perfectly for a home theater.

The two bedrooms on the first floor have circa cherry hardwood floors, six panel doors, nickel plated hardware, crown moldings, and custom window moldings.

The main bathroom on the first floor has marble tiled flooring, ceramic tiled walls, full bath, built-in cabinets, and coordinating sink, vanity, and hardware.

The basement is almost entirely finished with recently added family/rec room 14×25, oak flooring, crown molding, recessed lighting, and two more rooms that could serve as a home office and/or third bedroom.

The laundry room has electric Washer & Dryer units and a full size Freezer. There is also a walk-in closet great for Winter coats and seasonal clothes.

Outside is a very private back yard that has an above ground 27 foot round pool which is connected to the deck. Over the main eating area on the deck is a retractable awning. There is a patio under a beautiful shade oak tree, and there are two sheds, one of which is 12 x 25, the other is 12 x 12.

The roof was recently done, the windows are new double pane, and the exterior stained shingles are in great shape.

For more information please visit: www.10DedhamRoad.com

Leading Internet search engines have begun incorporating social media tools
to meet the niche needs of the ‘long tail’ market

Move over SEO, SMO has arrived. With Internet users contributing, tagging
and ranking content in Web 2.0, search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and
Altavista have been compelled to re-engineer their algorithms to incorporate
social media search. As a result, search engine optimization (SEO) is giving
way to social media optimization (SMO). Read the rest of this entry »

If your looking for well written books covering an array of technologies and design then check out Friends of Ed (an Apress Publishing Company). They offer the source code and sample files for all there publications which makes for a nice resource for learning something new (book purchase not required for source code download).

The MVC paradigm is a way of breaking an application, or even just a piece of an application’s interface, into three parts: the model, the view, and the controller. MVC was originally developed to map the traditional input, processing, output roles into the GUI realm. Think of it this way:

Input –> Processing –> Output
Controller –> Model –> View

The user input, the modeling of the external world, and the visual feedback to the user are separated and handled by model, viewport and controller objects. The controller interprets mouse and keyboard inputs from the user and maps these user actions into commands that are sent to the model and/or viewport to effect the appropriate change. The model manages one or more data elements, responds to queries about its state, and responds to instructions to change state. The viewport manages a rectangular area of the display and is responsible for presenting data to the user through a combination of graphics and text. Read the rest of this entry »

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for classmates.com! There’s a reason you don’t talk to people for 25 years. Because you don’t particularly like them!? Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days–mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Don’t eat anything that’s served to you out a window unless you’re a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy’s chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain?? Trout? Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s start off by saying the iPhone is a very cool and unmistakably innovative product. What I’ve got put together here can in no way replace Steve’s gift to the mobile world. But, I think you’ll be interested to find that while you can’t match the style of the iPhone, you can mimic and even best many of its features for less. Read the rest of this entry »

There are iPhone doubters, and then there’s David Platt.

Platt’s remarks in yesterday’s “With hype high, iPhone may have to fight a flop” story by Reuters reporter Franklin Paul were really just the tip of the iceberg. Last week on his “Suckbusters” weblog, Platt published one of the craziest-ass things I’ve ever read, Read the rest of this entry »

Featuring iLife integration, audio and video entries, extensive document importing and instantaneous searching and filtering, not to mention Mail, iWeb and Address Book integration, a dash of blogging and AppleScript and Spotlight support.

Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. Scholars, teachers, students, professors, scientists, thinkers, the business minded and writers of every persuasion use it on a daily basis to connect the written word with the media most important to them.

I highly recommend downloading Journler for Mac OS X

There’s an old joke about airlines that goes something like this:

Q: How do you make a small fortune in the airlines?
A: Start with a large fortune!

The general rule of thumb in any competitive business: If there’s a profit to be made, someone with much deeper pockets is probably already trying to get in on the action. That’s one reason Southwest Airlines is one of a few generally profitable standouts in the airline business, despite being known for its low prices. Its balance sheet, touting more cash and short-term investments than long-term debt, is exceptionally strong for its industry. The lack of a heavy debt anchor allows it to charge less than its competitors for essentially the same service. As a result, it has thrived in an industry where players such as Northwest (NYSE: NWA) regularly flirt with bankruptcy and surviving firms like SkyWest (Nasdaq: SKYW) and Pinnacle Airlines (Nasdaq: PNCL) struggle with the impact of those bankruptcies on their own businesses.

Not just an airline problem
The same rule of deep pockets chasing profits applies to just about any industry. The most vulnerable companies, much like the airlines, suffer from an ugly combination of high capital costs and relatively light non-financial barriers to entry. Read the rest of this entry »