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Why I Don’t Like Matte Screens

A couple weeks ago central air conditioning was getting installed in my house while I was at school. I came home after lacrosse to find that the people who installed the vent in my room did it right over my 23″ LCD monitor  and Macbook. I dusted off my Macbook and turned it on. As [...]

New “Slim” Xbox 360

E3 2010, Electronics galore. Today at it’s conference Microsoft announced a new bundle of joy, the Xbox 360 Slim. Microsoft also renamed project “Natal” to Kinect… pronounced connect. While at the conference many upcoming Xbox 36o tittles were showcased.
Call of Duty: Black Ops was shown first. The next installment of the “COD” series will be [...]

UBoard Unboxing and First Thoughts

The UBoard was sent to me to review by MacSpies.com and Johnny Bond, make sure to check them out!
When I first opened the box of the UBoard I knew it was going to be a fingerprint and dust magnet, I have not proven myself wrong. The main piece of the UBoard is made of glass, [...]

New 13″ Macbook Pro (Nvidia 320M) Review

I absolutely love the new 13″ MacBook Pro with Nvidia’s 320M. After being a MacBook Air and 17″ MacBook Pro user for the past couple years, I have to say, the 13″ MacBook Pro is the best of both worlds. It offers impressive power with a small footprint and 10 hours of battery life.
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iDidn’t Get the iPad

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I used to be so certain that I would not want to buy the iPad but, there is something inside of me that wants it so badly. I said to myself that I would just wait until the second generation iPad came out…in a year! Of course by then it will be upgraded with [...]

iPhone 3GS Video Quality (UPDATED)

Normally I am an early adopter of technology, but I am just now getting the iPhone 3GS. I had the orginal iPhone pretty much since it came out. It worked great for three years until the power button quit working last week. So I went on up to the Apple Store and bought a 3GS.
I [...]

Upgrading the hard drive on a 17″ Macbook Pro

Most tutorials give the impression that upgrading the hard drive on your Macbook Pro is an accident waiting to happen. Leaving the end user questioning if it is worth the risk of damaging their laptop.
I totally disagree… Unlike replacing the hard drive in a Macbook, the Macbook Pro requires you take the entire system apart, [...]

How does the iPad compare to netbooks?

In launching the new Apple iPad last week, CEO Steve Jobs took a stand against the popular netbook category, which he dismissed as a poor fit into the space between laptops and smartphones.
“Netbooks aren’t better at anything. They are slow, they have low-quality displays and run… PC software,” Jobs said. “[The iPad] is so much more [...]

HOWTO: Crack a Wifi Network’s (WEP) Password

You already know that if you want to lock down your Wi-Fi network, you should opt for WPA encryption because WEP is easy to crack. But did you know how easy? Take a look.
Today we’re going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with WEP security turned on. But first, a word: Knowledge [...]

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Computer Hacking

1 Hacker originally meant “one who makes furniture with an ax.” Perhaps because of the blunt nature of that approach, the word came to mean someone who takes pleasure in an unconventional solution to a technical obstacle.2 Computer hacking was born in the late 1950s, when members of MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club, obsessed with [...]