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As if to say, “Hi, the LHC is up and proton beams are zipping about the accelerator, smashing into one another. And, by the way, I’m using a Macbook Pro.” I have a feeling you won’t find black holes, or Windows 7 at the LHC. Hells yeah! [Read the article.] [Source]

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If you like to take screen snapshots on the mac, you can use the built-in tools and use Shift-Apple-4. It saves a .png file to your desktop by default. You can pretty quickly clutter up your desktop doing that. I personally will edit these, and upload them to my Photobucket site for later use, but [...]

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In the new Leopard OS on the Mac, you get this feature called Spaces. It is pretty awesome. It is like VDTM, which I use all the time to give me four different desktops to use (and four times the real estate) on the PC. (Of course, with my 24″ iMac, it is much, much [...]

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Installing software on an iMac isn’t as bad as it was 10 or 15 years ago, that’s for sure. I’ve found a number of things that quickly install, and are available for free on the Internet. I got to installing my Starcraft CD and was dejected to see that the Intel iMac no longer supports [...]

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I’m thinking about upgrading to a new 24″ iMac for Christmas. I have a very nice 20″ G5 iMac, but while it is still like new and fast, I am thinking about gifting that to my sister/nephew, and getting myself a new Dual Core 2, 3.06 GHz 24″ iMac. I have to go by Best [...]

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Ho! Ho! Ho! Fool! It’s been a banner month at the ol’ Bill Gates household. Santa has snuck down the virtual chimney, and put all kinds of unwanted presents under our Christmas tree of security! Despite the downturn in the economy, this is the BEST Christmas in five years! Microsoft offers up patches for 28 [...]

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I bought a new gaming mouse and pad off Amazon this week. It just came today. My old Logitech just didn’t compare. It was getting flaky, and the little mouse pad I had wasn’t that good. It was getting rather annoying in Photoshop and WoW, and everywhere else. I am very happy with my Razer [...]

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I try to be fair. In all honesty, after visiting the candidates’ websites, Obama has a slick, easy to navigate and pretty website. He’s like an iPhone. Meanwhile, McCain’s site looks like it was designed by committee. It isn’t as easy to find information, and isn’t as Web 2.0 savy. It is a bit blockier [...]

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