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Archive for April, 2009

[RANT] Why the Screen Matters

Monday, April 27th, 2009

The general consensus is that Apple overprices their laptops. Why? Because you can find a PC laptop with a better GPU, CPU, more HD space and a larger display. Of course most of these can be debunked easily, but what about the display. Is larger better? What about the quality? Those are what I plan to touch upon in this article.

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[Deal] Orange Box for $9.99

Friday, April 24th, 2009

This weekend Steam is doing a huge deal for the Orange Box. For only $9.99 you will get all of the Half-Life 2 games, Team Fortress 2 and Portal! A great deal for a great set of games. Check it out!

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A while back I was getting ready to watch the Sarah Connor Chronicles on Hulu when this interesting tidbit passed by my radar. To sum up the article, Apple apparently had a patent approved last year for a Wiimote-like device used for navigating interfaces, presumably Front Row and the Apple TV…

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As the title says, everyone who uses a computer should know - or make an effort to learn - how to edit photos. I’m not talking about being a Photoshop guru here…

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The Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Multiplayer Mod (SA-MP) is the most widely known mod of any GTA game. It allows you to play San Andreas online with other players. The problem is that SA-MP only supports version 1.0 of San Andreas. All retail copies come with version 2.0. For them, however, a downgrade patch is available. But what about Steam users who have version 3.0 installed?

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[List] Top 10 Essential Mac Apps

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Mac OS X surprisingly comes with a lot of capable applications. It comes with a lot of stuff that would be on an essential Windows applications list, like a photo manager. But alas there are still many great Mac apps that I cannot live without. Here are what I feel are the top ten, in no particular order…

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[Rant] Goodbye iShowU HD

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

For about two years now I’ve been a huge advocate of Shinywhitebox applications. Their iShowU Classic app is still the best introductory level screen recorder you can buy for Mac OS X, and Stomp is pretty much the best video compression software you can buy for under a grand. But after these two great applications, Shinywhitebox fell upon hard times…

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[How To] Become a Mac OS X Power User

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

One of the biggest faults with Windows, in my honest opinion, is that it doesn’t have a uniform design behind it. Both in interface and in shortcuts. In this post I will discuss the shortcuts.

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[Review] Picturesque Photo Editor

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

There are very few photo editors designed for blogs out there, and even fewer that are actually half-way decent. Through my searching for a decent editor I cam across Picturesque ($34.95)…

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A lot of people applaud the user interface of Photoshop in Mac OS X. It’s something different from most other photo editors and has a unique feel to it. But in terms of productivity it’s far from efficient…

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