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Comic Zeal for iPad: Detailed Review

By Jordan / May 5, 2010 /

From the first time I saw the Marvel app for iPad reviewed, I knew that reading comic books had never looked better or more intuitive on an electronic device. Reading on the iPhone screen is similar, but certainly too small. Reading on my laptop seemed to work well, but it was definitely uncomfortable trying to…

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On The Ars Technica Review of Windows 7

By Jordan / November 7, 2009 /

I sat down on this nice and quiet Saturday, with the sun streaming through the trees (and my window), to take a read through my long list of unread articles in NetNewsWire. It was then I realized that I hadn’t had a chance, or thought, to read through my selected news feeds in many weeks!…

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VMWare Fusion 3.0 and Parallels Desktop 5

By Jordan / November 6, 2009 /

Long ago, when VMWare Fusion was first announced, Parallels Desktop was the only way of running Windows on a Mac (I think this was even before Boot Camp came along). VMWare was the sort-of goliath virtualization company, having long since been making Windows and Linux based virtualization solutions. I remember downloading the trial of Parallels…

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New Website Design

By Jordan / November 3, 2009 /

After working for a couple of weeks to update Web Savers with a great new theme and process flow, I realized that I no longer felt comfortable having this web site looking as it did. Linking to this site as my professional online presence just didn’t feel good as I was not satisfied with the…

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Microsoft Notebook Mouse 5000 not working with Ubuntu or Moblin?

By Jordan / September 8, 2009 /

It turns out there’s an issue getting many Microsoft Bluetooth mice working with Ubuntu 9.04. In my brief research on the topic, I have learned that in an attempt to make Bluetooth configuration easier for 9.xx, the Bluetooth stack used by default was changed, and sadly does not update through the normal system updates. After…

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In search of the best netbook operating system (OS). Win7, WinXP, Ubuntu NR, Jolicloud, Moblin – all here!

By Jordan / September 7, 2009 /

Netbooks are an interesting phenomenon. Every day I see people purchasing them for both notebook replacements and the novelty factor, not to mention those simply upgrading from their 10 year old desktop just looking for the cheapest portable available! Although many are able to succeed at replacing their notebooks with a netbook, many are not…

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Moblin HP Mini 1035nr Wireless Drivers

By Jordan / September 5, 2009 /

For those with an HP Mini 1035nr, you have a Broadcom chip, and because Moblin was started by Intel staff, it appears support for that chip is non-existent. But! Never fear! Apparently the Dell Mini 9 also uses this chipset, and luckily this kind person (who apparently also has a Mac) has placed instructions for…

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Minor Updates Too!

By Jordan / April 18, 2009 /

Since it didn’t really match the topic of the last post, I figured it’d be best to write a new one with some quick updates about this site. I just added timestamps to the Twitter feed (they were sorely missing). Additionally, I should be replacing the certifications page with Presentations, where I will be showcasing…

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Exams are finally done!

By Jordan / April 18, 2009 /

I spent the past two weeks ignoring pretty much everything in my life except those exams… and they’re finally over! You can bet I had a lot of catching up to do. Emails — both personal and business, Twitter, TV shows, all that good stuff. My first exam was Monday night – Organizational Change Theory…

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Lots More Changes!

By Jordan / April 7, 2009 /

Tons of changes to the site today. It now has a brand new background – the brown stripes really didn’t look good on some displays (mostly ones with bad contrast), and it was hard to get content to overlay on top of it smoothly. The banner at the top of the page was a bit…

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