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Computers

Essential Software

I’ve recently had to rebuild my computer which required me to reinstall all of my software. Its given me the chance to update and try out a bunch of software that I think would be useful for everyone: General xplorer2 Do you like the tabbed browser feature of modern web browsers like Mozilla and Opera? [...]

Gmail Switch

I’ve gotten a new Gmail account and I’m considering switching to it as my main email account. I’ve been using my current permanent email account for almost 9 years. I’m afraid to switch away from it because I’ve subscribed to so much stuff over the years, I might not be able to login to something [...]

New Computer Specs

What do you think?

Tivo, Schmeevo

Recently, I’ve been working on converting my old desktop into a MythTV PVR. I’m using the KnoppMyth version of Knoppix Linux that has MythTV bundled with one installation CD so you can install both of them in one action. Or at least that’s the idea in theory. In practice I have been tinkering with the [...]

Blog Reboot

As you can see, the blog has been down for a while. I’m sorry I’ve been gone. I’ve been extremely busy with a new job and I’m also a slow, easily distracted writer. The next question that I had when decided to restart my blog is what should I write about? I have several friends [...]

RSS Feed Suggestions

I read a lot of blogs every day so for me, until recently, that meant going to each of websites and looking at the entire site to get the latest news. I knew that most blogs have RSS/XML/Atom feeds (including this blog) but didn’t think much about using them until I realized that I was [...]