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Android blogging

December 20th, 2008 · Comments

Google gave us all Android Dev 1 phones today, so now I have a second one to play with. So far as I can tell, the only difference is that the employee version comes in a cooler box, and a substantially updated firmware. I am not sure what to do with my other Dream phone, [...]

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How to get ripped off by Electronic Arts

September 19th, 2008 · Comments

So, my coworkers are chatting outside about how great Spore is. They mention that the CD comes with both Mac and Windows versions, which is atypical of EA, but exceptionally relevant to me. So, I watch the videos, read the reviews, and then decide to go buy it. They also mention that it is available [...]

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Google Chrome on Mac OS X

September 4th, 2008 · Comments

While many Mac OS X users are awaing a Mac port of the recently released Google Chrome web browser, I was able to uninstall Safari, Firefox, and Opera completely from my system today. I am in fact, running Google Chrome under Mac OS X (click for a larger view):

It’s a bit hackish, but I was [...]

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My favorite Chrome feature: Application shortcuts

September 2nd, 2008 · Comments

I’ll admit, I wasn’t that excited about Google’s new open-source web browser, Chrome, because at the moment it’s for Windows only. Curious about it, I installed it under VMware Fusion in order to test it. My first thoughts are that Chrome, while very spartan, is extremely fast. While the Chrome Comic Book describes all of [...]

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