Growing up, I always had macs. From my first MacSE sporting the lightning-fast 8mhz 68000 processor to college when I had a Power Mac running a 200mhz PowerPC 603e processor, I was always a Mac person. Even after that last Power Mac died, when I was exclusively running PCs, I still considered myself a Mac [...]
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Is Cuil really Cool?
July 28th, 2008 
Evan All of the buzz on the Internet today is zeroing in on a new potential Google-killer called Cuil. Sure, there have been plenty legitimate attempts to dethrone the search king in the past, but none of the start-ups have been run by Google alumni. I’ve had a chance to play around with it and see [...]
Firefox 3 – Tomorrow!
June 16th, 2008 Evan That’s right, the long awaited Firefox 3, which I have previously encouraged you to download and install, comes out tomorrow. I’ll be sure to write up a formal review of it once I’ve really had the chance to use it. Can’t wait to play around with the new interface, new features, and enjoy the performance [...]
Firefox 3.0 Download Day
June 3rd, 2008 Evan If you haven’t heard yet, the awesome folks over at Mozilla are attempting to set a Guinness world record for the number of software downloads in a single day. That day being the release of the highly anticipated Firefox 3.0. The absolute only thing you have to do is download Firefox 3.0 on the day [...]
Road Runner Turbo
April 20th, 2008 Evan I decided that I needed to geek out a bit this weekend and called Time Warner Cable to upgrade our standard 7 Mbps (512 Mbps upload) cable Internet access to Road Runner Turbo, which is instead capped at 15 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. Sure, there’s plenty of stuff that this will have absolutely [...]
Just who is Psystar?
April 16th, 2008 Evan At first it was all over the news that some company in Miami named “Psystar” is selling Mac clones. Compatible PC hardware hacked to run Mac OS X. The term Hackintosh made its way in to mainstream media for the first time since the mid-90s when Mac clones were actually licensed. The Mac community has [...]
5 Great Firefox Add-ons
April 13th, 2008 Evan Firefox is easily the best web browser available today, but part of what makes it great is the expandability that it offers its users in the form of add-on extensions. So, without further ado, here are some of my favorite add-ons in no particular order. Adblock Plus – I’ve not no issues with a few [...]
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Tags: adblock, firefox, fireftp, flagfox, forecastfox, Internet, stumbleupon 
1 Comment »Computer Woes
March 8th, 2008 Evan Windows decided to take a complete dump on me today and I ended up spending the last 6 hours fixing my computer. Thankfully, I was able to pop in a live cd of Ubuntu 7.10 that I had lying around which allowed me to back up everything of value on to my slave drive, but [...]
Where’s the new Space Race?
October 5th, 2007 Evan As you probably know if you’ve listened to, watched, or read any kind of respectable news source in the last day or so, yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cold War Space Race. Sputnik was launched in to orbit and began a race between the US and the former USSR to [...]
10 Ways To Save Energy
July 30th, 2007 Evan The reasons for saving energy in your home are twofold. First, and foremost, it benefits the entire energy grid. If everyone is consuming less energy, less power needs to be created, which, in turn, is generally better for the environment. The second and more selfish reason is that it saves you money and everyone loves [...]
