Archive for January 28th, 2008

28 Jan

Free Photoshop Brushes

I’m an old dog when it comes to graphic editing, I’m still using PSP 4.14 which has gotta be about 12 years old by now. Sooner or later I’ll have to upgrade to something newer and better though, and seeing things like free Photoshop Brushes and patterns is a good incentive. It’s great to get [...]

28 Jan

And Now the Motherboard…

So a couple days ago I got a new 500gb drive in to replace my failing 200 gigger, and while I had the computer apart I decided it was time for a good cleaning since it had been a couple months. The video card heatsink fins get clogged up pretty quick and cause my card [...]

28 Jan

iPhone Coming to Canada

Rogers Wireless is soon going to be releasing the IPhone in Canada, this is great news for those who have been waiting (im)patiently for it’s release since it was originally only available through AT&T in the US. Hackers of course unlocked the phone long ago, but Apple has been releasing updates to foil those attempts [...]

28 Jan

Burnout Paradise: Continued

The smashing crashing fun continues in Paradise City. To start an event you pull up to a set of traffic lights, an on screen message lets you know what the event is and if you want to take part in it, you hold in both triggers to kick it off. These events are different than [...]

28 Jan

Backed Up Your Drive Lately?

Last week I had a hard drive disappear from my network. Physically the drive was still there but the computer lost track of it. After unhooking it and re-seating the cables, it powered up again but upon spin-up I could hear a loud high pitched whine that isn’t normal for a hard drive. Sure enough [...]