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Interesting idea: Tagging contacts in your instant messenger?

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:55:35 +0000

While going through my instant messenger contact list, I began thinking of new ways that I could use to sort my list. There hasn’t been any innovation in terms of how contacts are shown in a contact list. A list always consists of a list of groups, and then there are contacts under each group. [...]

Nintendo Wii + Mac Mini = entertainment paradise

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:51:32 +0000

As some people know, I purchased a Nintendo Wii about a week ago (from Pittsburgh, PA because they are extremely hard to find here in Toronto!) I’m having a great time with it so far, and have a few events planned and had a few that have passed where we’ve used it to play some [...]

JPMorgan pushes through to investors with email and IM, including Google Talk

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:17:49 +0000

JPMorgan has announced the launch of ‘AlgoAlert’, which is ‘an instant messaging service that provides unique charts as well as real-time updates of algorithmic trading performance and trading conditions’. It’s interesting because it uses different IM platforms such as BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service’s messaging system, AOL’s AIM service, and the Google Talk ™ instant messaging service, [...]

Running Windows programs on my Mac – without Windows

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:23:32 +0000

The release of Crossover Mac couldn’t have been at a more perfect time. I bought my Mac laptop about a week and a half ago, and of course, I’ve wanted to test Windows on it. I’ve tried both the Parallels method, which runs Windows in an application in Mac OS X, but it uses up RAM [...]

My 17″ LCD monitor just died

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:36:43 +0000

My BenQ T701 17″ LCD monitor just died this morning. I turned on my computer and my monitor, and the display showed the desktop for one second, and then it went black. I tried it on another computer, and it didn’t work there, either. So now my monitor is being sent to BenQ, courtesy of [...]

Why QuickSilver make Macs rock

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:13:14 +0000

Browsing my iTunes library to play a specific song used to be a chore on Windows. I had to open up iTunes (which takes a short moment to load on Windows), go to the playlist that I wanted (so that the songs that are looped were the ones that I wanted), type the name of [...]

My first (major) problem with my Mac

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:37:09 +0000

I love my Mac. I love the software it runs. But I just ran into a problem that appears to be blatantly obvious, and yet, it happens.I was trying to fix the networking problem between my Windows and my Mac; the problem was that, sometimes, I couldn’t modify files on Windows from my Mac over [...]

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