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Over the decade or more I’ve been using the Internet, I have seen a lot of “Internet phenomenons” come and go. There was the dancing baby, All Your Base, the “O RLY?” owl and a slue of others that just go to show the power of the Internet and how it can take a senseless [...]
A few years ago we used to notice a lot of web pages with “Mac On a Mac” buttons in colorful retro Apple logo styling. Now you hardly see anyone revealing they actually created *all this* on a Mac. Let’s face it. Macs are sexy. The new Macbook makes me all warm inside just thinking [...]
Sure, there are thousands of articles out there on “Mac versus PC” but I’m going to take it in a different direction and look at the top six reasons why your next computer should be a Mac, and why those Mac owners are just so damn happy with their computer. This won’t be a technical, [...]
There you are rushing around juggling meetings and confrence calls and all of sudden a number pops up that’s not in your Address Book. Maybe it’s the Boss calling from his new iPhone. Who knows! All you know is that you picked it up without thinking and now you’re un a heated conversation with a [...]
I’m somewhat of a minimalist. Heavy 3D eye-popping wallpaper that seems to have infected the Internet’s free desktop wallpaper sites aren’t my cup of tea. For the longest time, I was using a very minimal solid black wallpaper with a big, bright, white Apple Logo right in the center. While this is good stuff, I [...]
I’ve seen a lot of odd error messages from popular websites when something times out, goes offline, crashes, etc. but this is the first time I’ve seen an e-mail error message from one of the biggest sites of them all: eBay.com. It would appear SquareTrade wants to offer one of those amazing 5-year warranties and [...]
Move over, Michael Jordan. Apple has introduced a notebook that’s going to be getting some serious air. And I don’t mean that lightly. At Macworld 2008 today in San Francisco, CA., Steve Jobs unveiled to the world the thinnest laptop computer ever made: The MacBook Air. This computer is so thin that Intel Corp. had [...]
With the rising popularity of “sucks” and “is gay” being used excessively on the Internet to describe a person’s basis against something, I’ve decided to dust off the decade old browser war and give you the opinion of all sides of the battlefield from a seasoned web addict.
Let’s examine the facts:
I’ve used the Internet for [...]