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Cleaning House

It’s a dirty job.
Sorry I haven’t been around; I’ve been up to my neck in dirt cleaning a home for a friend of mine who’s stuck in bed for a while. His entire home was filled with trash — up to about halfway to the ceiling. Yes, it was that bad. I figure this is […]

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Star Trek Apps

LCARS Terminal
To boldly hog disk space like no other program before.


The LCARS Terminal is based off the LCAR system used in Star Trek TNG movie. I found it useful for real Star Trek fans, but not for your average user.
The terminal is a desk top theme that works rather […]

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Desk Of The Future

Your Desktop Your Computer
 
 
I have always had the idea, that a desktop should not merely be a place for which computer technology sat upon, but was integrated into.
My example:
The desk would look like any typical desk with the exception that there would be a box underneath which housed the extension cards from the motherboard. The […]

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Be True To Your Tech

Forget what the beach boys said about school!
 
 
Nothing bugged me more as a tech, then some one who did not label things. It only takes a few seconds to get some low contact tape, and write down some information, then slap it to a device so the next tech knows the history and story behind […]

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Printer Considerations

Five Things To Consider!
 
I receive so many bad printers coming into the shop that it would be a sin not to show off the worst, of the worst! In the video below I try to quickly explain what you should look for in a printer.


Now to go into a bit […]

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Virtual Organization

Organizing and managing
Your Programs
And windows Better!
This has been touched on by so many people. However most are comparing Cube Virtual Desktops, or Slide Show Desktops, to MSVDM. Now I want to explain something about functionality, over design.


As stated in the video above, to me I do not care […]

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Macs Not The Ugly Duckling!

A argument I never thought would need to be talked about!
 
Very strange, I was in a chat room and some one was complaining about something different for once, in the Mac VS Windows war. Looks! Appearance. Since when did Appearance serve functionality, or since when was that a main selling point to some one for […]

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Five rules to consider before purchasing your next operating system.

 
 
 
Their has been a great deal of fuss lately over Vista’s features,against that of another certain OS.. What I find amusing is that people are even taking the time to notice features when it fails a basic test of stability.

Let me give you some background history of my short experience with Windows Vista just to […]

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The Broad Move

 
As many of you know
I have switched from Charter broadband, and TV.
To Direct TV, and Verizon DSL.
 
Why? The price was not right bob! I was paying one hundred and fifty dollars a month $150.00, with another ten dollar INCREASE on the horizon (Making it $160.00). I saw the writing on the wall and […]