Computers and Software

It’s true, I’ve got a foot in the Apple world and the PC world. Because I’ve worked as an in-house graphic designer for tech companies over the past 6+ years, I’ve spent most of time using a PC to do graphic design work. I’ve found that companies who have a small design staff require...
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Dock Porn Originally uploaded by The Iconfactory. So I was browsing the blog of my favorite icon geniuses, the iconfactory, and ran across a posting that read Our Chief Typist, quite by accident, discovered that the icons in his dock spelled out ”$eXy” and wondered what other words he could make from all the...
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So it wasn’t until a couple months ago, that I began to hear about the whole concept of “Social Bookmarking”. I’ve even mentioned it to a couple of my friends, and they always pose the question “what ARE you talking about?” Even though I understand how social bookmarking works now (well, not completely, but...
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So I happened upon a few YouTube commercials for the Commodore 64, my first computer. Here’s one of them: I was 11 or 12 when we first got my Commodore. My mom had saved for months to purchase it and then still ended up putting it on a payment plan from a local department...
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Now the news is old news, Apple has switched to an Intel Platform. I don’t really know the technical implications of what that means, other than the marketing mombo-jombo that I’ve been fed. And that’s fine. I’m not “techy” enough to have to know all the details why it’s better than IBM’s Power PC...
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