Category Archives: Tech

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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Rooting the N1 on Android 2.1

By admin | Published: April 25, 2010
Rooted N1 with HTC Sense UI ROM Some­times I can't leave well enough alone. I had my N1 (Nexus One, Mom) for just about a month or so when I began to get an itch, no, not the kind you get that requires oint­ment! I had this awe­some phone and, sim­ply put, it just wasn't doing all it could do. Don't get me wrong, [...]
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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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