Some people may have noticed that I had a forum that was hidden underneath the Contact Us navigation that didn’t seem to have much in it. Originally I was using it to show potential clients an integrated forum inside of WordPress. Now I’ve found another use for it and have moved it under the Home [...]

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Apple has finally released their 17-inch MacBook Pro today. It looks wild! The major difference, other than the 17-inch screen, is:

(3) USB 2.0 slots as opposed to (2) on the 15.4-inch MacBook.
800 Firewire slot added.
8x Dual Layer DVD-Burner versus the 15.4-inch’s 4x Single Layer DVD-Burner.
It comes with the 2.16GHz Dual Core Intel chips as standard.

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So my nephew installed World of Warcraft on my MacBook Pro to test how fast WOW would run, and we must say it is definitely phenomenal! Originally on the PowerBook I had, WOW ran quite laggy and the graphics were choppy and unexciting; essentially WOW worked on the PowerBook, it just wasn’t very satisfying to [...]

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In other news…Parallels has released new beta software that will allow WinXP to run inside the Mac OS. While this may be seen as a copy of VirtualPC, that is not entirely the case because VirtualPC is emulation software, whereas Parallels’ is virtualization software. Virtualization utilizes “Intel’s ‘Virtualization Technology’ ? a feature built into the [...]

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In regards to this previous post about WinXP on the MacBook Pro, PC World has conducted a benchmark review in comparison of WinXP running on: a 2.0GHz Duo Core iMac, a 2.16GHz Duo Core MacBook Pro, a Dell Inspiron 2.0GHz Duo Core E1705 laptop, a HP Compaq 2.16GHz Duo Core laptop, and a HP Pavilion [...]

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You guys have to see this! Some guy by the handle of 3dblasphemy created a live action video clip of Optimus Prime using an actual big rig. It’s freaking amazing how some people are able to do this. Would love to see this in the live action movie. Here’s the link to the Threedy Forums [...]

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In the next coming weeks I’ll be starting (again) and hopefully finishing more (finally) of a project that was started more than two years ago. Some of you may remember it from my days on Acura-CL.com (now AcuraZine) as abunchofcars.com (ABC).
The main purpose of the site is to create a nexus of Do-It-Yourself guides for [...]

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Some of you may have noticed some downtime starting Saturday night and all through Sunday. My webhost was updating their servers and one of the hard drives were going bad, so they had to replace it. There are still some errors on the site such as Gallery is not working, which EquaWeb will have fixed [...]

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It has been speculated for some time, even before the release, the possibility of running Windows XP on the Intel core processor Macs. Some of the Apple people I had spoke with had said this probably wouldn’t be possible because the Mac Intel processors were utilizing EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) and Win XP depends heavily [...]

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I’m always in search of a good CSS and XHTML book. Despite how many books on web design that one can find on Amazon.com, Barns and Noble, and/or other popular book stores, it is hard to beat Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman. This book is very easy to [...]

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