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Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by .

It is that time of the year!!! I am doing upgrades of machines to Windows 7, and these events always bring me a lot of joy… as a person who makes money fixing problems.  Man, can Microsoft make this process any more convoluted?  Here I will give you some tools to make the process go [...]

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Blackberry Storm 2 trying to get noticed

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by .

Hey, over here! The release of the Blackberry Storm 2 on the Verizon’s network, yesterday, seemed to be the least publicized event in quite some time.  This product that has the ability to hold or expand RIM’s market share (currently at approx. 40%),  but with the marketing and pizazz of a Kleenex commercial, fails to [...]

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Post Office delivery fix

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by .

OK, it isn’t exactly a “high-tech” post, I admit. But this does have to do with technological advancement affecting the nations postal delivery. The post office has been slow in modifying the way they transition in the modern age. They took a long time to change their prices on standard first class mail, and once [...]

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Update: 2 weeks with my 13″ MBP

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by .

So, today is the 2 week anniversary of my latest Apple lust, the 13″ MBP. Specs: 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache 1066MHz frontside bus 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive Here are my initial impressions of the device.  Great!  Duh. Upgrading: Well, [...]

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Mobile messaging has to grow beyond single sync

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by .

I use a BlackBerry® Curve™ 8350i for work, unfortunately.  E-mail-wise, I get on the order of 400 messages a day through this platform.  What frustrates me, most notably, about this device is the fetch mechanism.  I will post a more comprehensive critique of the device in a future post.  If you receive several messages in [...]

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