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Entries from March 31st, 2009

FasterFox? Pfffftt! RAM-Fox!

March 31st, 2009 5 Comments

You wanna speed up your browser? Get your browser into memory.  I posted a couple of weeks ago about creating RAM disks on your system to offer some high-speed storage on your computer.  Now the question is: what should I do with it? RAM Fox! RAMFox is an implementation of Firefox Portable which is based [...]

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Nerd Dinners — Geekery and Good Eats

March 27th, 2009 1 Comment

Leave it to the big brains of Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman to come up with this simple yet super cool concept. Nerd Dinners — a way (by use of web technology) for a bunch of introverts to meet up with each other and enjoy a meal, and the kind of conversation that drives our [...]

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RAM Disks – Storing Files in Memory

March 21st, 2009 1 Comment

Back in ye olde days of DOS Microsoft included a utility with the system called RAMDRIVE.SYS.  This utility allowed you to carve off a few kilobytes of your system’s precious RAM to use as a pseudo hard drive that was highly effective for reading and writing large volumes of data to and from a drive [...]

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Blackberry Pearl Flip Reviews

March 21st, 2009 2 Comments

I’ve been selected for a panel of five bloggers in my office to review the Blackberry Pearl flip phone.  I will be re-publishing my posts, or selected portions thereof, on my blog in addition to what I’m doing for work. In the interests of transparency I’ll say that I’m being provided with a test unit [...]

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Tycho’s Echos

March 18th, 2009 No Comments

This stunning image is a composite of three separate images of Tycho’s Supernova remnant. The image is the remnant of a supernova first discovered over four hundred years ago.  The composite is made up of an x-ray image, an infrared image and a telescope photo.  Check out the APOD site for more info.

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