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Paul Thurrott’s Spotty WWDC Coverage

Alex — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:40:41 +0000

Windows blogger Paul Thurrott has a long track record of saying dumb things when it comes to Apple, but it’s still fun to point out where he’s wrong. Reading his coverage of WWDC and OS X Lion, I found a lot of things to take issue with. Let’s get started. On why people buy Macs: [...]

Hardware Mod: Upgrading your Wireless Card- How To

Thomas — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:05:30 +0000

**This is Part 2 of the “Upgrading your Wireless Card” guide and is continued from part 1. Part 1 explains the benefits of upgrading your wireless card while part 2 is simply a How To.** This post was delayed by about 10 months due to forgetfulness and procrastination. My apologies for the delay, though I believe many [...]

Back To The Hack

Richard — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:09:53 +0000

I am pleased to announce that after selling my Dell Inspiron 1525 for dirt cheap to my father-in-law, I am trading him a more powerful, “Windows-only” laptop to reclaim my HackBook — the exact laptop that started it all. I am very excited to dive back into Mac OS X and I will definitely need to upgrade [...]

The Cydia apps I use on my iPod Touch

Thomas — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:06:38 +0000

In the style of our previous My Dock posts, I’d like to share the Cydia apps I currently use on my iPod Touch, along with a short description of each. I’d like to note that the majority of the apps below are free, though the paid apps have been legitimately purchased. Support the developers you [...]

Why My Next Computer Will Probably Be A MacBook Air

Alex — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:01:57 +0000

The MacBook Air doesn’t get much love anymore. Its last update was back in 2009, and no one seems to fawn over it as they did when it was introduced in 2008. However, Apple’s slimmest notebook has recently become very appealing to me, and could be more so if Cupertino puts just a little effort [...]

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

Thomas — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:52:50 +0000

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

We Want Your Feedback

Thomas — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:19:19 +0000

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 [...]

Some design changes to the site [Updated]

Thomas — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:35:58 +0000

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 [...]

Hardware Mod: Spray painting my Inspiron 1525 bezel black

Thomas — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:14:40 +0000

Recently, user Alexander Brown decided to mod his 1525 by painting his 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 did it out behind my apartment complex), and 12 hours of drying later, I had a black [...]

How to: Run Windows Programs in OS X

Thomas — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:07:00 +0000

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, [...]

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

Thomas — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:59:36 +0000

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. [...]

Why The Windows 7 Taskbar Sucks

Alex — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:50:04 +0000

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 [...]

Wait, I wrote that?!?

Thomas — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:47:37 +0000

As many of you know, I took over Daily Blogged back in August. After acquiring the domain from Richard, I started to crank out posts more rapidly than I had previously done. While I was solely doing this for the benefit of the readers, I may have sacrificed a bit of writing skill along the [...]

Re: 10 reasons I’ll be passing on the iPad

Alex — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:55:48 +0000

This is a response to the article 10 reasons I’ll be passing on the iPad, where Debra Shinder details how the iPad isn’t for her. I’ve criticized Deb before. I read her blog and I’m subscribed to her Win7 News mailing list, and I’ve noticed that whenever she talks about Apple, she somehow gets in [...]

Hardware Mod: Upgrading your Wireless Card- Why

Thomas — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:57:16 +0000

There comes a time in every mans life when he realizes that his laptop just isn’t running as fast as it once was. He can reinstall the Operating System, but it’s still won’t feel as fast as he remembers. Previously, we covered why upgrading your processor is a wise decision. But once you’ve completed that [...]