Author Archives: Techie

Just bought a Razer Orochi

Oh man, went to the store and ended up dropping way too much on a mouse. Well worth it, but $80 was not my intention that day. I recently got a new MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and I needed a good notebook mouse. I had a 5 year old bluetooth Kensington mouse, but it [...]
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Razer Lazer Mouse for Mac

(Say that title 5 times fast.) I am very picky about the hardware I use. I’m on the computer a lot of the day developing websites, and I won’t settle for a keyboard / mouse setup that is not comfortable and responsive. (95% of the reason I switched to Mac was due to the keyboard [...]
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Laptop for the Mom on the go

Mothers Day is coming up here, could she use a new computer? Netbooks (net not note) are smaller notebooks. The screens are usually 10 inch or less. The don’t pack the punch that a larger laptop does. So this won’t replace the computer that handles all the family videos. However, they also are very mobile [...]
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Gaming tower under 600 dollars

This will be the first of many posts. Computers cost less these days, and you don’t need to spend a couple grand to get a good gaming computer. XFX nForce 680i LT SLI Barebone Kit – Intel Pentium D 965 Extreme 3.73GHz, 4GB DDR2-800 OCZ SLI, 1TB, Clear Side Case, 550W PSU I’d recommend one [...]
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Facebook push notifications on iPhone

So, I just updated the facebook app on my iPhone, and was pleased to find that they added Push notifications! So far, I notice that when someone send a direct message to me I get an alert telling me there is a message waiting for me in my Facebook inbox. I wish though that the [...]
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Random mac restart?

So I had just sat down at my computer and for the first time ever I was asked to restart my mac due to a crash! It was bound to happen someday, I’m suprised it took 3 years to see my first OS crash on a mac though.
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CNET: 8 Underrated video game characters

A nice little article showed up on CNET News. Photos: The 8 most underrated videogame characters ever Made me remember the good old days of 8 bit and before. Though, the images here are not very 8 bit they do a good job of covering a bit of everything, from a game on Atari to [...]
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DoubleCommand to customize the keyboard in Mac

When I switched from PC to Mac, the single hardest thing I had adjusting to was the new keyboard shortcuts. At the top of the list was the Home/End keys, they never worked quite right. I quickly adjusted to using Command-Left or Command-Right, and it even became natural, and since I was on a 15 [...]
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WordPress for the iPhone app review

This one will be short, I’m writing it from the wordpress iPhone app. It’s nice, but I don’t know it could be used long term for quality blogs. There’s no way to post audio/video. Picture support is nice though, it even optionaly resizes the image to be smaller and upload faster. All-in-all though, the app [...]
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