Category Archives: Tech

I can see what you see

May 23, 2008 – 8:08 am

Tell me this isn’t cool. You can’t. This is cool. Especially the telescopes.

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All right, all right

May 9, 2008 – 10:52 pm

Nothing like your friends complaining to make you post something, huh?
Happy Pascha, Christo Anesti! We’ve just celebrated our first Lent/Holy Week/Pascha in the Orthodox church. Too wonderful for words, and many other Orthodox bloggers have written about it better than I would. So, how about a general update?
The symphony has a concert tomorrow night. You […]

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As if on cue

April 4, 2008 – 6:27 am

Just the other day I wrote about writing code, now Lifehacker tells you where to start.

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Giveaway

March 28, 2008 – 8:17 am

The popular (and expensive) StarBurn is free today. The new v.10 offers :
* Fully skin-able and theme-able wizards (not only main form as it was in V9);
* Vista-signed executables (StarBurn is “blessed” for Vista/Longhorn now);
* Blu-Ray decrypter wizard (V9 had only DVD decrypter);
* UDF 2.0 / Unicode image mastering wizard (V9 had only ISO9660/Joliet).
Very cool, […]

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Learn to write code for free!

March 27, 2008 – 6:37 am

Google Code University
…provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes.
Did I mention FREE? Why wouldn’t you?
Web security, C++, Java, Python, databases and […]

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Kindle cool

March 26, 2008 – 5:50 am

Tell me this isn’t cool. Read more!

At 400 bucks I’m not going to run out and get one, but like most new technology you have to wonder where this piece will lead. What’s next?
UPDATE: I want this!

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Early birthday present

March 22, 2008 – 3:42 pm

I ordered the hard drive for the new computer I mentioned last week. It’s pretty sweet, and incorporates perpendicular recording technology. I’m set with my case and power supply. Fellow geeks, what mobo/processor do you recommend?

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My brain is full

March 21, 2008 – 12:54 pm

So its a good thing there is something to help. Even better is that Evernote is free today. With any software from GiveAwayOfTheDay, its a good idea to peruse the comments first. This release shows an exceptional response.
UPDATE:  Lifehacker has more on it. Plus an instructive video here.

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Computer geeks of the world, unite!

March 18, 2008 – 5:48 pm

I’m in the process of building a new computer. I’d say from scratch, but that discounts the work that others’ put into it, so I’ll just say I’m putting together lots of different parts. I’m the personality type that likes to have an overload of reference material. Problem is, I tend not to go back […]

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Giveaway

January 6, 2008 – 3:25 pm

I keep Giveaway of the Day on my RSS Reader (so should you). Every day there is a new free software giveaway. For me, it’s usually software that is redundant or that I wouldn’t normally use. Today is one of those giveaways that is HUGE.
Even if you already use DVD authoring and mastering software, StarBurnShark […]

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