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Video Games Then And Now

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Ryan Lalonde.

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This article will take a look at various video games from their earliest roots to what they have evolved into today. From humble beginnings to graphically amazing some of these franchises are older than me!

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5 Ways to Ruin Your Website

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Bran Rainey.

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Ever since the dawn of time, Man has asked himself: what is the best way to make a website look like an unprofessional mess? It would be arrogant of me to claim to know the answer, but I can still offer my opinions as an Internet Anthropologist™ — the most prestigious position in the modern world.

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Scrobbling: a blessing and a curse

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Last.fm is a lot of fun, but it might have some unexpected consequences. It’s actually pretty predictable if you think about it. Isn’t a large portion of the music industry funded by people’s egos? I do recommend that you join the site if you haven’t already, but I won’t hold it against you if you choose not to. Not everyone likes to be part of the high-horse circlejerk that Last.fm can easily become.

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I’m disappointed with Vodafone

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Connor Beaton.

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Vodafone are my mobile phone service provider, and generally, they’ve been great: I use a pay-as-you-go system, so I top up regularly, and they give me all kinds of promotional offers… they treat you like royalty. That is, up until a couple of days ago, when I started becoming assaulted by their text messages. Apparently the quality of their service has declined to the extent where they send me an alert, retract that alert, then retract the retraction of that alert. Observe.

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Internet Explorer 8

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Microsoft definitely made a huge step forward with the release of IE7, so why should anything be different here? I hoped that, with Firefox’s market share steadily rising, they might feel the heat and really go the extra mile. Turns out I was wrong, but not by that much. IE8 follows in the proud Internet Explorer tradition of being confused.

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Five web design patterns that I hate

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Web design has generally improved with time, but there have been some advancements in web technologies that have only decreased the quality of web design. So, just to rant a little bit, I’m going to talk about five web design patterns that I hate.

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Top four worst things about Firefox

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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It’s time to rant about the four things I absolutely hate in Firefox. Why four? Because I couldn’t think of a fifth one, so I just gave up and made it four. This is not about extensions, since you can easily ignore those, but rather about forced features of the browser.

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Top five Firefox extensions

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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One of the greatest things about Firefox is its enormous community of people working to make new extensions and themes. Without this community, I would just use Opera. I’ve been a Firefox user since before version two came out, and I’ve seen things come and go a lot, but some extensions just can’t be shaken. These are the top five Firefox extensions.

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