Author Archives: Alex

Drop Box… Useful Storage for Cheap

By Alex | Published: June 18, 2010
I do a lot of design work and i blog a lot, too. Since I'm mobile and meet with clients fre­quently, it's nice to have some­thing I can access quickly, from any­where that has a com­puter and an inter­net con­nec­tion. Drop Box helps me be more mobile. I use it to store my files on the cheap aka free! In addi­tion [...]
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Get Your Download of Swype Now!

By Alex | Published: June 17, 2010
If you're an avid Android (Google's surg­ing Mobile Device OS) user, such as myself, then you may or may not like the built in key­board or the other avail­able ones from the Android Mar­ket­place. My cousin, Phillip, one day told me about the Swype Key­board. The key­board, to me, is sim­ply amaz­ing. It's respon­sive and [...]
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Oooh Shiny! Installing the Android 2.2 Update to My Nexus One!

By Alex | Published: May 23, 2010
Well Google started leak­ing out it's 2.2 Android update to demo devices that it has shipped out ear­lier this year, accord­ing to those nice fel­las at CNET. Though, if you look around it's easy to find the update mir­ror down­load. Any­way, there's a num­ber of improve­ments over 2.1. One minor irri­ta­tion I've suf­fered with in every other [...]
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Moving to Mac from Windows 7. Ulp!

By Alex | Published: April 15, 2010
Okay, okay. You might be ask­ing, "Why? Why move to Mac?" There's really no rea­son for me to do this. I'm per­fectly happy with Win­dows 7 and my quad core desk­top. How­ever, I have this nifty Mac Book pro sit­ting around that I'd like to get more famil­iar and com­fort­able with. Cer­tainly, there is noth­ing that I need that my Win­dows box [...]
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Time to Put on the Big Boy Pants

By Alex | Published: March 18, 2010
So I’ve been design­ing web sites for a while now, for profit, but I’ve been doing web design and related non­sense for nearly ten years. That is crazy to me; my first site was com­pletely hand coded, pow­ered by notepad. Oh how I hated the process! Now, it’s a funny foot­note in my life as I con­tinue to develop my skills and [...]
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