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Last week I was presented with a choice - I needed to get a new computer to replace one that had recently broken and I had a little over a thousand dollars to spend on it.  Windows 7 had just come out a few days prior and it was getting largely good reviews.  I had [...]

I recently started a  new job where we use Windows XP in a corporate environment; I have to say the change has been less than enjoyable.  At my previous job we worked with iMacs running 10.5 Leopard and I got quite used to the little time savers and shortcuts on the Mac that could allow [...]

The biggest problem I heard about Windows Vista was that it broke people’s old programs.  No one wanted to change their lives around by purchasing new printers, peripherals, or software to do the work that they had gotten done with few problems in XP.  Here comes Windows 7 and it has not promised any new [...]

It was reported on MSNBC that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is going to increase the standards by which they measure cars in crash tests.  What that means is that a car that may have gotten a 5-star crash test rating a year ago could suddenly plummet to a 3-star rating without performing any [...]

I recently upgraded to the latest version of OS X, 10.6.1 and ever since then I have been having problems with sites that use Adobe’s Flash software. The problem isn’t isolated to a few specific sites, it is every site that uses Flash. I have tried with Safari, Opera, and Firefox and they all have [...]

Well, not really hacking Twitter… but to the uninitiated you will look like a hard core hacker when you do this simple trick. What you need is an application called cURL, which you can get here. It works on just about every operating system from DOS to Windows to Linux to Mac OS X. [...]

I read that IBM had decided to drop Microsoft Office from their corporate offices in favor of their OpenOffice based word processing system. They were moving towards the open document format and away from the Microsoft based .doc system. Having read that, I was curious to give the software a try. I [...]

When it was announced that the Wii would have downloadable titles from past systems, I thought that was great.  I thought it might be fun to play those old Nintendo games without having to keep an old console around.  When I got around to playing those old NES games, it wasn’t quite as much fun [...]

Microsoft recently stopped production on the first and second generation Zune players; it will focus entirely on the Zune HD from here on out.  The early reviews for the Zune HD are positive - it has a nice screen and the touch features work well.  The sound quality is good and it will have some [...]

College football has, since the mid 1930s, relied on polls to determine who would be crowned the national champion.  The biggest of those polls was the Associated Press poll, a popularity contest that was voted on by sports writers.  In 1997 college football went with the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, as a way to [...]