We’ve all seen extraterrestrial life portrayed through the media. Movies like “E.T.” and “Alien vs Predator” have attempted to narrow down the abstract idea of extraterrestrials into a more detailed, visual depiction of what we should expect from our “out of town” friends. But the question is still on the…
Gravatars, or globally recognized avatars, serve as a method to personalize your comments on numerous sites throughout the Internet (including this one). If you browse through some of my previous posts which have comments, you’ll see my own gravatar listed next to the text. The process of setting up a gravatar…
Most of you are familiar with domain name extensions like .com, .net, and .gov. In addition to these are extensions which are specific to countries (.us – USA, .uk – Great Britain, .ca – Canada, .cn – China, and so on). Knowing this, I decided to exercise my mind’s ridiculous…
For the Tiger/Leopard Mac users out there, you’re probably interested in something artistic by nature. Whether its editing photography, listening to music, or writing HTML/PHP code (my personal favorite), Mac OS X empowers the creative side in computing. Consequently, any time there’s an opportunity to “enhance” a mode of creativity,…
In a future of personalized medicine in which diagnoses can be made in advance and treatments can be adjusted based on your genomic sequence, I ask my readership whether it’s right for employers, admissions committees, etc. to have access to this information. Let’s put things in perspective with a hypothetical…
Hands down, I believe that VMware Fusion 2 is the best option for those who are looking to run Mac OS X as their primary operating system but also have Windows and Linux as readily accessible environments. Virtualization is a relatively old technology. For those who aren’t familiar with it,…
I’m not begging, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop using Internet Explorer as your primary web browser (hmmm, okay, that was begging). I’m just worried there are casual computer users out there who don’t realize that they are voluntarily subjecting themselves to such obsolete software. Even the upcoming release is a…
We’re all so preoccupied with getting enough Vitamin A for good vision and Vitamin C to prevent scurvy-related symptoms that the B vitamins seem left out. In reality, the family of B vitamins is responsible for maintaining a wide assortment of physiological events. In particular, low levels of B12 have…
I await the the day when the term “compatible” will become obsolete. The day where you won’t need ten different cables to connect various peripherals to your desktop/notebook. Where corporate firms no longer have a say in what computer users can or cannot do with their operating systems. Where software…
After trying out some new optimization schemes on this site, I was curious as to how concerned other bloggers are about the quality of their site’s performance. Using a Firefox plugin called YSlow (an extension to the Firebug plugin), my MacBook and I traversed the vast blogosphere in search of…