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Posts tagged ‘computers’

game mod  

“Someone said that you don’t have to learn how to play an instrument to make music with it. They saw first-hand that the same applies with coding, and that there’s no point in being shy about touching the inside parts of an interactive medium.” Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective [...]

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Bye bye Script.aculo.us, hello MooTools  

I’ve just finished swapping out the Javascript library used on BigHugeLabs.com from Prototype/Script.aculo.us (P+S) to MooTools and I thought I’d share my reasons as well as my impressions for the benefit of any other developers thinking of following a similar path.

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I kicked Dell’s ass!  

So I went to buy a new computer (because my current aging machine is really starting to annoy me sometimes—it’s several years old) and since my last few purchases have been from Dell I clicked on over to see what they were offering. Isn’t it funny that the simultaneous advance of technology and the decreasing [...]

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How to Backup Your Photos  

This past weekend I finished a task that turned out to be undeserving of my procrastination and left me with a welcome sense of relief. I made a backup of every digital photograph in my collection, over 15,000 images, spanning nearly 6 years from early 2000 through last week. It had been far [...]

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My computer just coughed up a hairball  

My trackball has been acting funny so I finally popped the ball out and cleaned it and out comes a big, grey, linty hairball. It had been a while since I cleaned it. The ball travels so freely now it made me laugh.

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