My Apple decals arrived today in the mail, so you know I had to make my pretty Mini even prettier (though I am sure John from Dell is probably dying a little inside, sorry John!).  The rainbow stickers from icolours.ca were cute, but they were too small and also too thin to cover the Dell [...]

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I got the shipment notification on my Dell Mini 9 today, and imagine my surprise when the tracking information showed that it shipped Wednesday night (instead of Friday, as the automated order status line had told me) for arrival TOMORROW! Picture me almost falling out of my office chair from sheer glee and you have [...]

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Now that my Dell Mini 9 is on order, I have become obsessed with finding just the right accessories for it–a case (since Dell doesn’t ship it with one), some decorations, a Bluetooth travel mouse, a new SDHC card, etc.  This is possibly my favorite part of buying a shiny new toy!  I love getting [...]

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Before too long, I am going to be saying goodbye to my precious Eee PC 701 netbook.  I can still remember how excited I was when the delivery guy brought it into my office and I opened it for the first time–it was so SMALL!  It has served me well for a little over a [...]

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I love Linux. It’s so customizable, and I love the fact that it’s open-source. But let’s face it–the business community has yet to embrace Linux with open arms. Many of the things I do for work, whether it’s editing or creating a templatized document, or doing a quality check on a web-based [...]

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When the 10.5.3 update to OS X borked my iCal installation, I tried quite a few things to get my iCal back in working order.  When you clicked the dock icon, it would just bounce and never actually open the program.  I tried trashing a couple of files according to some directions I found on [...]

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I discovered yesterday afternoon that my iCal appears to be broken. I haven’t had a chance to sit down and explore the problem yet, but when I click on the iCal icon in the dock, it bounces up and down, appears to try to open, and then shuts itself down again. Rebooting did not fix [...]

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I was pretty excited to hear that the new OS X upgrade, 10.5.3, would allow Address Book to sync with Google Contacts. Since I’ve been syncing everything else through GMail and GCal, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get my contacts all straightened out.
I spent a LOT of time last night updating [...]

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One of my daily tech drivers is my 4G Asus eeePC 701. I use it for quite a bit of my web surfing, chatting, email checking, web research and writing. It’s perfect to curl up with in my favorite living room chair or carry along with me to a coffee shop. I also carry with [...]

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Ever since installing Ubuntu on my 4G eeePC 701, I’ve been incredibly impressed by the operating system. It’s my first time running a Linux system full-time, and I find more to love about it every day. One of the most impressive things in Ubuntu is Compiz Fusion, which adds some incredible graphic effects to the [...]

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