At home I use Linux and Windows, at work I use a Mac.  I enjoy aspects of all three OS’s but for a while Mac’s have had a killer app that was not available on any other OS.  This applications biggest asset was what it didn’t do — Get in the way!
The app is called […]

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This post is for anyone that ever submits a help ticket to technical support (web hosting specifically in this case) then gets mad when you get a “default” reply that asks you for more information.
Let me start by saying that there are default replies for a reason.  Certain information, as trivial as it may […]

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I make a living in front of the computer. Eight hours per day, at least 5 days per week, I sit in front of the computer clicking and typing away. A few months ago I started noticing pain in my hands and forearms. The first thing that popped into my head […]

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Unless you are a hardcore gamer or graphic designer its hard to justify spending $2000 dollars on a computer anymore. Just 10 years ago when I started college, the computer I took to school was a $2000 beast with 64MB of RAM and a 500Mhz AMD processor. On the other hand, I […]

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My wife hates using my laptop.  There is a password to login, a password for my wireless network (both home and work), I never save any of my passwords in the browser and you need another just to be able to use my linux shell (which she would never touch anyway).
Why all this security?  […]

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