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Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

September 1st, 2010

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Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

That’s right, I’ve added a second Hard Drive. But you’ve got to read on to find out how.

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We Want Your Feedback

August 11th, 2010

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You may have noticed the new feedback button on the right side of the site. This button will take you to Daily Blogged’s User Voice page. User Voice is a service for websites that allows users to leave feedback about that site. The site admin can they directly respond to the feedback (as can other [...]

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Some design changes to the site [Updated]

July 19th, 2010

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Feeling courageous, I made a couple additional changes to those already listed below. One major changes is that all primary boxes now have rounded edges. Secondary boxes (those contained inside of a major box) are not affected by this change. This was done to give more of an Apple/widget feel, and I think it is [...]

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Hardware Mod: Spray painting my Inspiron 1525 bezel black

June 29th, 2010

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Recently, user Alexander Brown decided to mod his 1525 by painting his bezel black. I have just made my 1525 look more like a MacBook Pro. I painted the bezel black! Intrigued by this, I decided to follow Alexander’s example and paint my bezel black also. 4 coats of spray paint, one angry neighbor (I [...]

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How to: Run Windows Programs in OS X

June 26th, 2010

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A while ago, I was looking around for a way to run a Windows program in OS X. I was busy encoding a file, and didn’t want to restart so that I could boot into Windows. Rather than inconvenience myself, I stumbled across an awesome guide by LifeHacker. The guide featured a program called WineBottler, [...]

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“Honey, get the camera. We’re on the Google!”

April 12th, 2010

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Note: The video is included below, but you can click on it to be taken to the youtube page. Using Google’s new Search Story feature, we made a short video for Daily Blogged. When you watch the video, notice that it tells a story of a user installing Leopard and upgrading through to Snow Leopard. [...]

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Why The Windows 7 Taskbar Sucks

February 22nd, 2010

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Windows 7 has been quite a hit among Windows users, some calling it what Vista should have been. I’ve used Windows 7 as a secondary OS since the public beta, and I’ve never really been comfortable with the new taskbar. These are the reasons why. That extra click—By default, the Windows 7 taskbar groups instances [...]

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