Category: Technology

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Its been about 16 months since the last major computer purchase arrived at my house. That being said, I long debated on what the next addition to the family would be. First it was an internal discussion on the merits of PS3 versus HTPC (that would be Home Theater Personal Computer). That lasted for about […]

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It’s been in the works for a while – but the last few weeks really just bothered me in that the performance of my Web hosting has been so dismal that I’ve finally upgraded to a dedicated virtual machine from MediaTemple. I’ve sang the praises of MT before specifically around their GridServices offering – but […]

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There have been a few new additions to the family clan that I've been needing to talk about… It's been a long time coming, but we're now parents to a brand new Wii. Now already being a long time XBOX camp member, the Wii was a nice addition for C and I to play some […]

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Apple has had their Aqua GUI interface for some time now. This is nothing new… But I’ve always been secretly mesmerized by the simplicity of the style. Almost like my fascination with flashing lights! In any case… I came across an image that made me want to brush up on my Photoshop skills (I’ve been […]

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Since I was poking around in my computer BIOS over the last few days during a rebuild of my Dell desktop back and forth from Windows XP & Vista – I thought that I’d partake in a quick experiment to see exactly how much of a performance difference turning on or off Automatic Acoustic Management […]

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A few months back I decided to move my Web hosting over to Media Temple for several reasons… More space, ability to host multiple Web sites on a single account (and not just with domain forwarding) along with a lot more disk space. However – the real cool part of MT is the usage of […]

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Well… it’s just under 24 hours before all of America will be drooling over their new Apple iPhones. Do I want one? Meh… Maybe version 2.0. I still have 18 months left on my renewed Spring PCS contract. But it does look cool. And way better than the other phones trying to compete with it. […]

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I’ve stumbled upon the next greatest need for my office. Even though I just purchased a new computer about a month ago (it’s now serving as my main VM/File server) – I just came across a picture that finally pulled my life long love of music together with my geek side: After a bit of […]

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I chuckled to myself after ready an article called “The Ill-Fated Apple III“. The last paragraph includes quite a funny quote: The Apple III was not a bad computer, and indeed, it was a somewhat better machine than its main competitor, the IBM PC. But it was boring. Randy Wigginston, who at age sixteen was […]