Exploring What's Outside The Box
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I’ve been a fan of Need For Speed since the very first game was released many, many years ago now. I still own numerous versions on various platforms and although the quality of the games has varied throughout the years, Need For Speed Most Wanted stands out as the one game in the bunch that […]
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In the last year, Android gaming has taken a giant leap forward. It wasn’t long ago that the quality of the games on the Android platform was sub-standard. However, much has changed since. While I used to be almost exclusively gaming on my PS3, I’ve found myself increasingly playing on my phone and tablet this […]
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Invariably, any computer hardware gets old and at this point, my Dell XPS 1530 is chugging through its 5th year of faithful service. Sure, there have been bumps in the road but nothing I haven’t been able to overcome. Over the last few years, as Ubuntu has evolved, things have started slowing down quite a […]
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After several weeks of thinking about what to do now that I’m kind of starting over here, I have decided to keep going in the same direction as before. Tall Tech Tales (and 2Tall Tech Tales on Blogger before) has always been my personal corner on the Internet where I posted my experiences with technology. […]
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You think it’ll never happen to you. Virus, malware, hacks, all that stuff. You’d think I would have learned after one Windows 7 installation was corrupted by viruses. Alas, I didn’t. Two weeks ago, this domain was suspended due to malware. I was surprised but immediately went about trying to fix it. After examining files, […]
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After upgrading my HTC Hero to Android 2.1 recently, one of my first thoughts concerned tethering. Would it still be possible and would it still be easy? Being able to connect to the Internet no matter where you are is very convenient and it was a feature I was hoping would remain. It did […]
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After several years of entertaining on Blogger, I’ve decided to move the blog and give it a proper domain and a slight “name lift.” Going forward, 2Tall Tales will be known as Tall Tech Tales and will be located at : http://www.talltechtales.com All entries from here have been transferred but until the search engines catch […]
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I guess it was just a matter of time before LeBron would appear on Twitter. With his free-agent status and so many rumors flying around about this man, I’m frankly surprised he hasn’t joined the band wagon already. After all, there are plenty of other people that I’d say are less famous that have more […]
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As announced last week, Alaskan wireless carriers ACS and GCI today made the Android 2.1 upgrade available for their respective customers to download through their websites. Before jumping on the bandwagon, you may want to ask “what’s new” and is the upgrade worth it? According to ACS, these are some of the things you’ll find […]
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Google Voice was made available to all interested parties this past week, giving all of those interested in it a chance to try it out. No more need to request and invite, no more waiting for the eventual invite to arrive. Alas, many smaller regional carriers, such as those here in Alaska, are not on […]
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