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Apple is renowned for their products’ ease of use. It’s a selling point for just about everything they put together, and in most cases they do amazing things — look no further than the response to the latest iteration of the iPhone.
But Apple hardware aside, I have to wonder where the usability goes with the [...]

In my last post I mentioned I made a list of all the software I would need to reinstall with my fresh Windows install.  Well, here it is.  Remember that this is my work computer…  so I have a lot of programming tools and what not.  But of course I have way more “fun” stuff [...]

I reformatted my work computer and reinstalled Windows XP this week since it was really running like a dog.  It’s one of those things I really dread because I’m always worried I’ll forget to back something up and it will be gone forever.  But I guess I’ve done it enough times now that I have a good [...]

Earlier this month I decided it was time to get a new cell phone, since I was tired of hauling around my relatively massive LG VX7000.  That phone came in at a whopping 2 inches thick and a hefty 4 ounces in weight…  clearly this would not do.  Of course, my first thoughts of a [...]

I’m posting this here for my own sake, because every time I get the inclination to make a new banner for the site, I can never remember how to do it.  The trick is figuring out how to use Photoshop to make the image I want fade into the black background.  I usually spend an hour in Photoshop [...]

We got an upgrade copy of Windows Vista Business at work, so I decided to take it for a spin on my rarely used laptop.  The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600m which is going on three years old…  not exactly new but not exactly obsolete either.  It’s got a 1.4 Ghz Pentium M, 512 [...]