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HTC Touch As An iPhone Replacement
In January of this year (2008), I was getting the itch to buy something to replace both my cell phone and my Palm PDA (I used the Palm as my MP3 player). I wanted an all-in-one solution so I wouldn't...
View ArticleWorking with Active Directory in .NET 3.5
Many projects that I’ve worked on over the years have required some kind of interface with Active Directory. Back in the good ol’ ASP days, there was ADSI (Active Directory Services Interface), and...
View ArticleLeft High 'n' Dry By OnHop.ca
I recently decided to build myself a brand new computer system based on the new Intel P55 chipset and a Core i7 860 processor (I'll be blogging about that entire experience shortly). While I was at it,...
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Making The Jump To LightSpeed - Bell Aliant FibreOP
Ever since Bell Aliant began their rollout of FibreOP in New Brunswick two years ago, I've been anxiously awaiting its arrival in the Halifax area. Early this year, it was announced they would be...
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Antec P280 Computer Chassis
I make my living writing computer software, but computer hardware is actually my first love. I LOVE HARDWARE! Motherboards, CPUs, video cards and hard drives. Nothing gets me quite as giddy as when the...
View ArticleStill Stuck With An iPhone
I recently upgraded my cell phone from an iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 5. I had REALLY wanted to get a Windows Phone 8 device, but the killer feature for me was iPod integration in my car, and my car...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Essentials - Essential Tips
I recently replaced my aging HP EX470 Windows Home Server (v1) with a custom-built machine running Windows Server 2012 Essentials (WSE). There are already several articles online that go into detail on...
View ArticleSingle Page Application Frameworks
Several months ago I started work on a new project that required a web-based user-interface. I had been out of the HTML game for several years, spending time instead on Windows Forms and Flex-based...
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Core i7-4770K PC Build 2013
A few months ago I decided to retire my 4-year-old i7-860 PC and build a new machine based on Intel's Haswell platform. I had skipped Intel's previous Sandy- and Ivy-Bridge systems and was looking...
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HTPC Build 2014 - Intel Haswell NUC
For several years back in the early 2000's, I had an original XBox that was modded so it could run XBMC (XBox Media Center). XBMC on the original XBox was awesome - it had a great user interface and...
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