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Archive for October, 2006

Get Rid of Balloon Tips in Windows XP

I use wireless access all the time, and one annoying thing in Windows is that it’s always popping up “balloon tips” to tell when it’s connected or not to the Internet. The balloons would stay up for too long and annoy me.
I did some searching and come across a tool (mentioned here) that gives you [...]

How My School Program Is Going

Lots of people have been wondering how school is going for me. This morning I turned in my last mid-term project, so I can officially say we’re past mid-terms; in fact, we’re now in Week 10 of the semester, which is hard to believe. Below is a list of the classes I’m taking this semester.

Foundations [...]

Buying a Student Laptop (Part 5)

I ended up buying a refurbished Dell laptop from Dell Outlet. I paid $589. It’s not my ideal laptop, but it’s good quality and will do what I need for now. My friends at Intel were disappointed that I didn’t wait for the latest processor to come out in the Apple computers, but they’ll get [...]

Buying a Student Laptop (Part 4)

A couple comments have been made on my last post that I should wait for the Apple MacBooks to come out with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. I had been very excited and willing to wait for this upgrade; however, I’m getting cold feet. Below are my reasons for wanting to buy an interim laptop, [...]

Buying a Student Laptop (Part 3)

I saw this posting on the Mac Rumors site. It basically says Apple computers are ranked #1 or #2 for a couple reviews for the quality of their computer hardware. My sister also showed me Consumer Reports, which shows them as #1.
I’m not sure now if I’m going to get an Apple computer because I’m [...]

My New Meal Plan

I have to tell you about my new idea for meals. I’ve been trying to figure out something good for years, and it finally came to me. Usually being a single male (and lazy about cooking), I’ve eaten a lot of pre-prepared food that you just heat up in the microwave. And I used to [...]