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Check out this badboy from HP!! Sleeeeeeek!

I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it!

By housing two GP (GreenPower) drives, with either 500GB or 1TB each, and using it’s built-in simplified software, Western Digital’s new MyBook Mirror Edition drives could possibly your “safest” investment ever. You can run with WD’s included RAID 1 (mirrored harddrives) or switch it up to RAID 0 (riskier, but increased performance with no data sacrificed) - either way, you’ll have an external powerhouse for all of your data needs.

Virtual Bitch and I are VERY excited about this!!!!!
But I’ll be uber disappoin-TED if they don’t improve the editability and user-friendliness of the Spry stuff, which I think is potentially a magnificent tool, but sadly at present too hard to make you own of without spending a LOT of time adding extra CSS.

This excited me WAY too much!! Windows 7 will have touch screen capabilities!!!
Check it here.

This is cool. Cloud computing looks like the way forward. Microsoft are offering 5Gb for free, which isn’t bad. There is a 50mb-per-file limit which is a bit annoying, but otherwise a cool step forward.
I must thank Bill…

Ok so this is an odd one. I create a lot of websites sites designed with one Adobe product and built with another. These two applications are essential to my day! But LORD, some of the shit Adobe pull Microsoft would get blasted for!
For openers, the two programs I am talking about are Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I love them both, they both do their job excellently. They are all I want, and all I need. But they are not all I get. I install them, and without being asked if I want them or not, I get a multitude of other programs installed, too! I get Adobe bridge. I get Adobe Device Central. I get Adobe Extend Script Toolkit. I get Adobe Stock Photos. The list goes on but I am bored with it already. I mean what the HELL?!?!? Whatever happened to a custom installation where you could choose what garbage you wanted being put on your system? If I’ve paid my money (a lot of it!!) can’t I then choose for myself what I get and what I don’t get? And it gets worse: they can’t be removed either! You install none or all, and you remove none or all. Both Dreamweaver and Photoshop come with several applications bundled and it’s a “come one come all” deal. This is a freaking outrage!
Again, let’s choose Microsoft as a comparison. What do people say as soon as MS try to give them stuff they didn’t ask for? What uproar was there about MS’s “secret” update a few months ago? Name a company who ISN’T suing them for some kind of anti-trust or some such. Hell, they are being made remove their own search tool from Vista because Google are crying like babies because you can’t replace it with their search tool instead! (But don’t worry I’ll get back to that!!)
The bottom line? Adobe - Back off my shit! I paid my dough, give me control over what I do and don’t install. Ya bastards.

Like vista, but more.

I work in IT and every time someone calls me with the most mind-numbing “I ate my own face off” stupid problem they have brought on themselves, I say to myself “Dude, they are paying your salary. God bless their pointy little heads.”
But LORD it takes a lot of patience!

Here is a list of user-requested features for the next version of Windows, version 7, codenamed Vienna for now. It be cool to see tabbed explorer browsing!

Yanno… for years we’ve had to listen to Mac users go on and on and ON in the superior tone about how great Macs are and about how they just never break. Well, let me tell you, I have spent enough years in IT to know they do. A LOT.
My last job was at a company whose graphics department was, as you might expect, Mac-based. And I spent just as much time down there working on them as I did ANY PC.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. What about the whole Mav VS PC thing? What about those annoying “I’m a Mac” ads? I tell you, I want to get that obnoxious Mac guy and bash his face in with a $*^&ing hammer! Why do Mac feel the need to slag off PCs just to advertise their own product? Have they got nothing to say about their own hardware and software that speaks for itself? Does everything have to be based on this ridiculous childish anti-PC thing? Yanno what Mac? NOBODY GIVES A SHIT! Get over yourselves. Advertise your product based on its own (limited) merits. Christ, even entering the network properties of a Mac OS to see the PCs you’re connected to in your network, the icon for the PCs is a crappy looking old beige monitor with a BSOD error on it! I mean, GROW UP! Nobody wants to know. And speaking of BSOD, I have one word Mac: LEOPARD! Code name Train Wreck!
Oh and that reminds me; Mac works with everything right out of the box, huh? Use one version of OS and you can use them all? Vista is the only OS that required users to upgrade their software to keep working? Well, go have a look at the mess that is Adobe CS3 and Mac compatibility! Yanno, Adobe? The one company you’re absolutely totally SUPPOSED to run on a Mac if it’s to be any good?!?!?
Which brings me to the whole Vistas thing. Why do Mac user constantly feel the need to slam Vista? I’ll tell you why, shall I? It’s because it’s good and they know it! It’s got some cool features Leopard has just ripped right off. (Check out that hideous transparent lump that goes across the top of the screen. Is it a task bar? Whatever the hell it’s called. Change your background image and see what mess it makes of that white/see-through bar. And that’s just one silly cosmetic example.) And at least Vista’s a new product. Mac users: you’re getting ripped off!! Yet another version of OSX? Please! And each time they bring out the same thing with a new toy or two added to it you get charged the price to a full new OS!?! You’re taking that one up the ass, boys and girls! Windows released something akin to that a few years ago; it was a free service pack for XP!
And without question the very worst part: This constant need for Mac users to convert PC users to Mac! What’s up with that? If I wanted a Mac, I’d GET one! It isn’t a competition. Five minutes after the final piece of bubble wrap is in the bin they are all like “oh, I’d never use anything else ever again. You should get one, they’d be great for you!”
Oh, f*&$ off!