Review: How Twitter Became Addictive

All of the buzz in the social communication world these days goes to Twitter. From MacWorld to SXSWI, people have been tweeting about anything and everything going on in their lives. The main goal of Twitter is to have people share their current action or thought in a 140 character message (the specific limit is […]

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Hands-on Windows Vista Review

This summer, a good portion of the work I was involved with took place on a Windows Vista system, so it’s only proper for me to have found out a few things about it. As I stated in my initial review, Microsoft’s latest and greatest left me somewhat impressed, but otherwise XP still rocks the […]

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Western Digital My Book 250 GB Essentials Edition

Today’s ever-digitalized world is using ever-increasing amounts of storage. Once I downloaded the Adobe Premiere CS3 preview / beta, I really discovered this for my self, and followed up on that with a copy of VMware Server (which I run Ubuntu Linux in). Turns out my measly (relatively) 80 GB internal SATA drive just isn’t […]

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My First Phone: Motorola i855 from Boost Mobile

Thanks to the extreme compulsiveness (more like the way mothers worry so much) of one of my relatives, I now own my first cell phone. Originally I was planning on buying one myself, but luck struck and it came as a present, much earlier than I had hoped for. Like every tech purchase that involves […]

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IMified: Truly Simplistic, Undeniably Useful

Starting at registration, IMified is the easiest Web 2.0 service to use. Not many sites that cross the Educated borders are talked about like this, with good reason.
From second one, I realized that IMified is truly simplistic. In fact, the registration process is as simple as this: send an instant message to one of the […]

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Widescreen Mania

This summer, among many summers at camp, I will be officially working for the first time (unlike the fake work I did last summer that some of my friends may remember), which means I will come home with some cash (hopefully). Anyone who knows me also knows that I don’t hold on to money for […]

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A Mac for Mike

This lovely vacation day of mine brought me to both my orthodontist, and then to the Apple store in Manhattan (three buses and two subway trains later). I saw the entrance to the store last night, and then decided to come here. I actually began posting this from one of the Macs at the store. […]

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In-Store Inventories Suck

After seeing CompUSA’s site numerous times, and then heading into the store, I’ve discovered that companies severely misrepresent their in-store inventories that they display online. In general, stores like CompUSA have terrible selections behind the bricks.
I wanted to buy a 25 foot Ethernet cable for a little project of mine. CompUSA’s web site does have […]

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