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5 Christmas List Tools

October 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

When I was in high school, the Internet was really starting to take off. Being the nerd that I was, I started charting my Christmas wish lists using Excel. Well, those days are long gone and now I’m an even bigger nerd. Luckily, there are a couple tools that satiate my thirst for that yuletide [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Amazon: 1, iTunes: DRM

September 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

This Little Song Went to Market… I recently caved in to the desire to purchase songs from iTunes. I fired up the bloatware application and entered the Store, seeking out some new tunes I’d recently heard on Sirius. My wife spotted my activity and asked if the songs I purchased would work with her computer. [...]

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Tags: Computers & Tech · Consumerism

Spore Finally For Sale

September 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

It’s been about two years since a couple college friends and I were anticipating the release of Spore. Delay after delay knocked the release date back to yesterday, when it finally went on sale in stores. What happened in the last two years? I don’t know, but all I know now is that I don’t [...]

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Tags: Gaming

Successor to the Laser Mouse?

August 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

Say hello to the Blue Track mouse from Microsoft. Courtesy of their hardware page, Microsoft is set to release a new mousing device on September 9th. Someone spotted the above image on Amazon.de, which has since been removed. Blue Track uses a blue LED and a wide-angle lens that’s supposed to work on more surfaces [...]

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Tags: Computers & Tech · Rumor