Posts Filed Under — Op-Ed

[ August 8th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Outdoor Theater With a Twist of Drive-In Era Nostalgia a Work of DIY Mastery

Kevin Van decided that he wanted to build himself an outdoor theater (he had already built one in his bedroom and another in his basement), however, he went a little further than the inflatable Walmart screen and he built much of it himself. He also added a sweet nostalgic twist to the whole project, of [...]

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[ July 26th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Blu-Ray, SSD, When it Comes to Computers It’s Always Better to Wait

While I would love to be an early adopter, my frugality always gets the better of me and usually I am thankful that it did. When it comes to computers, the latest and greatest is almost always massively overpriced. Were it not for the fact that prices drop so drastically over a relatively short period [...]

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[ July 5th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

How Can Microsoft Get Right by Me and Blow OSX Out of the Water?

I am upset with Microsoft. Windows Vista is a terrible operating system. It is bloated and unwieldy and the taskbar looks ugly. Don’t get me wrong, I like the functionality of Vista it has some cool features; the trouble is that it comes with too many ghosts of Windows past. The legacy code from all [...]

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[ June 29th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Goodbye Bill, We’ll Miss You

Bill Gates retired on Friday, so I think that it is only fitting that we pay tribute to the guy who pretty much shaped the personal computing world of today. I don’t care if you are the most diehard MacFan on the block, we all owe an awful lot to Bill Gates.

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[ June 24th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

3G iPhone a Kindle Killer, I Don’t Think So!

Greg Sandoval over at CNET has an interesting theory and by interesting I mean completely insane. His theory is that the second generation iPhone could end up killing off purpose-built e-book readers, namely the Kindle; a laughable suggestion.
First, let me categorically state that I do read and I do not own a Kindle. I want [...]

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