Exploring What's Outside The Box
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Being an avid reader of everything from fiction to religion to science, I love books. I love reading. With fiction, it’s a way to escape reality and dive into another world somewhere else, where things may be completely different. Religion teaches me a lot about “why” while science tells me a lot about the “how.” […]
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For decades, applications and their use have been limited to computers and their specific operating systems. We as users have been used to going about our computing needs using a variety of applications. For word processing, MS Word has been the main contender. For spreadsheets, accounting, tables, graphs and all kinds of other calculating needs, […]
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With the recent release of the PS3 Slim and the removal of the ability to load other operating systems onto it, my thoughts went to my original release PS3 that I have Ubuntu installed on. I figured that if I have the ability that many new PS3 owners don’t have, I may as well find […]
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10 Must-have BlackBerry applications A quick Google search for Blackberry apps will reveal numerous blogs and articles full of glowing reviews and recommendations of many different kinds of Blackberry apps. Since I recently aquired a Blackberry, I felt it my duty to add another entry into this ever growing list of must-haves. Although, to not […]
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Being a HTC PocketPC fan for a long time, I’ve hesitated to jump ship to the also excellent BlackBerry for many reasons, some professional, some purely personal. However, forces outside of my control suddenly presented me with an offer I couldn’t refuse so as of this past Thursday, I am now also officially addicted to […]
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When Hulu launched its services, I was an instant fan. Finally, I thought, a way to watch some of the shows that I’ve missed on TV or just other shows I might not normally watch and I can do it on my computer! Of course, for me, this all played into a greater scheme of […]
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Having installed Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch onto my Dell XPS 1530, the question that first came to mind was if anything is different and works better? I remember I had some minor but very irritating bugs when I first installed 8.04 on this same computer. So, let’s do a quick overview of some of the […]
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This last year, I have progressively been moving away from Windows and I have embraced Ubuntu. I’ve been stuck with Windows for many reasons, specifically because some things I just can’t do on Ubuntu yet. This past week, I finally started experimenting with VirtualBox and I’ve discovered salvation from the Windows empire…or at least something […]
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In our world of instant access to everything, now and then we see news clips where someone somewhere managed to record something regarding a newsworthy event, such as a plane crash, a cool car, silly cat or whatever. In some of these cases, the clips end up on the news. Last night, as I was […]
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So far, Jaunty is working pretty good and I haven’t run into any potential problems yet. I’m still investigating to see if some of the problems I had with 8.10 have been resolved or not and the verdict is still out on that. However, one cool thing I really like with Jaunty is the new […]
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