Slow Macbook Pro Shutdown – Solved

March 20, 2008

In a previous post I mentioned that my new macbook pro was taking a long time to shutdown. Well I have found the problem, at least on my machine and tunnelblick seems to be the culprit. If I close the tunnelblick software before shutting down, my laptop immediately turns off.

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Bought a New Macbook Pro

March 20, 2008

I picked up the new Macbook Pro last week. This is the latest installment in the MBP line featuring the new intel Penryn Processor. I went with the 2.5 ghz model, with 4 gb of ram, 250 gb hard drive and 51 2mb nvidia video.
It’s a great machine, but I have been having a weird [...]

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Getting Rid of Yahoo in 2008

December 30, 2007

One of my new years resolutions is to free myself from using ANY Yahoo! products and services in 2008.
Why? Yahoo! Mail is now almost unusable due to the fact that their spam filtering has become so poor. YSM (Yahoo Search Marketing) continues to suck and not deliver ROI (at least in my experience). And of [...]

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Dine Out Massachusetts Launch

October 17, 2007

It’s been a long haul getting this site going. The project ran into several problems on the development side. Still a few outstanding bugs, but should be able to work through them. This is one site in a series of 22 total dining sites (22 other states).  There is still a fair amount of work [...]

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Speed up Mouse Tracking on Mac OS X

July 8, 2007

One of my gripes when I switched to using a Mac full time was that I could never get my mouse to track fast enough. Here is a  solution that worked for me.

Open a Terminal Window
Type the following: defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling your_mouse_speed
Replace “your_mouse_speed” with your new setting. The maximum [...]

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Wiispace.com featured on Shoemoney’s Blog

June 19, 2007

Well I sent a t-shirt off to Jeremy AKA Shoemoney and he was kind enough to do a blog post about it. In case you didn’t know, Jeremy is a successful web publisher, Technorati Top 100 blogger and the creator of AuctionAds.com

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Wow, it’s been a whole year…..

June 19, 2007

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since my last post. Lot’s of stuff has been happening. Expect some new posts shortly.

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Vonage Sucks

June 25, 2006

So, I recently took part in the Vonage IPO under their direct purchase plan they offered to their “loyal” customers. I purchased 200 shares of VG at $17 per share. Since the IPO, the stock has tumbled to it’s current range of $8.
In hindsight, it’s easy to see why Vonage was so willing to allocate [...]

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Vonage IPO

May 24, 2006

Vonage will IPO today on the NYSE under the symbol VG. Through a directed share program, Vonage gave it’s customers the ability to buy the stock at it’s IPO price, which last night was priced at $17. I made a conditional offer to buy 500 shares, but was only allocated 200. We’ll see what happens [...]

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XBOX 360 Cracked

May 15, 2006

According the to The Inquirer, the Xbox 360 has been sucessfully hacked. The hack will allow you to play Xtreme backup copies of xbox and Xbox 360 games. The hack however, involves flashing your hard drive, which is a risky proposition. You have a good chance of rendering your drive unusable. You can read more [...]

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