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Archive for January, 2005

Home Computer Magazine

Monday, January 31st, 2005

I’m not sure if I plugged this before, and I’m too lazy to look so… here it is again.
Home Computer Magazine is an electronically distributed FREE computer magazine published in the United Kingdom. The issues are published in Adobe’s popular .PDF format and the quality of the publication rivals a lot of print magazines.
You […]

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I upgraded the blog to Wordpress 1.2.2 aka “Mingus”. So as a result, the template is pooched. In a rare moment of wisdom, I actually thought to make a full backup this time before the upgrade, so… maybe… it will be fixed before you even see this message that tells you it was […]

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If you’re like me and had an old mouse for a while, you’ve lusted for one of those “smooth scroll” mice for a long time. But only recently did the “nice ones” drop down to “cheap” prices.
So a couple of months ago I finally got my Microsoft “Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0″ for the price […]

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I recently downloaded Mike Stone’s new C5 Galaxy. (The link is right there on the front page so I won’t bother linking it individually). Being one of the C5’s biggest fans (no pun intended) I thought maybe I’d take her for a spin before I hit the hay.
Now WHERE did I put […]

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A Post You Probably Don’t Care About

Monday, January 24th, 2005

In my depression I went through the database and did some cleaning. I deleted a lot of old inactive categories and re-arranged a few of them in the tree. Fear not, no content was lost… articles in deleted categories just got reassigned to “Category #1″ (From The Old Site).
I doubt anybody locates stuff […]

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A Weird One For Sure

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

With all due respect to Leo Laporte, I’ve made this new category on the site. Because I have a friend who needs to make A YELP FOR HELP!
I’ve spend a few hours on these two machines trying to figure out what the heck is wrong and I’m scratching my head. Maybe somebody […]

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A Tasty Size, And A Tasty Price

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

Apple has done it again. They seem to be on a roll lately, although they seem to be a little late for Christmas. I wish they’d made the iPod Shuffle in time for Christmas - then maybe iPod Minis would not have been at “Tickle Me Elmo” status in the supply chain. […]

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