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• Okay, the MySpace joke is over

  Wednesday, November 15th in Generally Speaking

  MySpace really irritates me. Sure, I’ll admit it, I do have a MySpace account; and I’ll even go as far as saying that I was fascinated by it at first just because of the amount of people who had a profile. I did the typical, “Oh my god! So-and-So! I haven’t […]

• But why’s it so slow?

  Friday, November 3rd in User Manual

  A mechanic gets, “what’s the rattle under the hood?”  A doctor gets, “my nose is running, ears hurt and I have a cough and it won’t go away.”  I get, “why is my computer running so slow.” Here are the four most common answers I can give: Spyware Virus Poor management Outdated system First spyware.  It lurks in everything.  Big companies […]

• Firefox 2, First Blood

  Wednesday, October 25th in User Manual

  So, I had been excited about trying out the new release of Firefox, Bon Echo (as they’re calling it) but today was the first chance I had to install it. I was expecting a relatively simple install, typical of a Firefox update…and then it happened. I knew that add-on developers hadn’t gotten around to updating […]

• Depression…TWiT may be gone

  Monday, October 23rd in Generally Speaking

  As I was scanning the links over at Digg, I came across something that made me gasp. Leo Laporte apparently posted at TWiT that he wasn’t sure if TWiT’s netcast would continue after he comes back after a break. If you’re scratching your head about TWiT, or netcast, just know that it’s one […]

• The New Office

  Thursday, October 19th in Open Source

  Businesses, for the most part, seem to have a fetish for blowing huge sums of money on office tools and products. One of the biggest expenditures always seems to be their technology related tools. With the most to gain from this is the leader in this area, Microsoft, peddling Windows XP and feeding […]

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