I’ve slowly updated components of The $1K Home Studio over the last few years, but have never had a low-cost, DIY solution for disc replication. After playing with external CD burners and evaluating various proprietary hardware options such as the Aleratec auto-flip burner , MicroBoard tower replicators amongst many others, I decided that the current [...]
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The $1K CD/DVD/LightScribe Replicator: The DIY Guide To Manufacturing Your Own Discs For Less Than $1 Each
June 28th, 2010
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Switching To Dvorak: Seven Months Later
June 18th, 2008
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Today marks exactly seven months from the day I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. Key Observations 72, 81 and 77 words per minute, clocked with three different one-minute tests on TypingTest.com. In home-row-only tests I took several months ago, I was already consistently over 100 WPM. The many common home-row-only words (those spelled with A, [...]
What's Better Than Windows Balloon Help?…
December 7th, 2007
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Twice as much balloon help! My current testing environment for JumpBox development uses two Windows XP virtual machines on OS X under Parallels coherence mode: one with IE6 (gold taskbar on the bottom), the other IE7 (blue taskbar on the right). While they perform sufficiently with 4GB physical RAM, the constant nurturing required to keep [...]
Parallels Desktop Coherence Mode Rocks: OS X/Windows XP Screenshot
April 23rd, 2007
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I tried Parallels Desktop‘s Coherence mode today, and was so blown away I had to blog about it immediately. The above image has not been doctored. It’s my normal OS X desktop with Windows XP running in coherence mode. When activated, the window around the XP virtualization session vanishes, the XP taskbar integrates into your [...]
