Category: Technology
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How do I newsgroups?
Newsgroups are a pretty great part of my life. They are very high performance, secure, relatively inexpensive, and reliable. The terminology and technology working in the background is different, but for those familiar with torrents, the process is virtually identical. Let’s get started. 1. Premium Usenet Provider First, you’ll need a premium usenet provider. If…
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Recommended App: MarsEdit
I’m writing this post using a program called MarsEdit. MarsEdit is a weblog publishing utility. This is handy for me because the WordPress interface is pretty beefy and my old PowerBookG4 struggles a little bit with big websites like that. MarsEdit doesn’t have a huge processor/RAM footprint. Give it a shot. Also, PureMac is an…
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Two documentaries for really nerdy people
I’ve watched a couple of documentaries recently by a guy named Jason Scott. The first one, Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary, I had seen before. Its about text-based adventures, which is a form of interactive fiction. The genre was largely killed off with the proliferation of graphical video games, but, as you can tell from…
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Here we go again
I reformatted the iMac so I’m starting over. Not a big deal because I didn’t have much content anyway. I was debating over whether I should use iWeb or WordPress as the homepage creator thingy. iWeb has a really sexy interface and can do lots of stuff. My main beef with iWeb is that whatever…