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  • Windows 95 Turns 20 Today!

    Windows 95 Turns 20 Today!

    In case you were looking for another reason to feel old, I thought I would bring it to your attention that Windows 95 turned 20 today. I can’t say I remember the OS very well thanks to my horrible memory problems but I do remember the mountain of floppy disks I had to use to…

  • Apple Store iPhone Display Running Windows XP [pic]

    I never really thought about it, but having Apple’s iPhone run Windows XP sounds like kind of a neat idea.  I’ve seen Sony’s PSP running Windows 98 and this idea seems even cooler than that.  Sadly, its just the iPhone display in an Apple Store that is running Windows XP.  I find it kind of…

  • Pixelated Hourglass Salt Shaker [pic]

    Loading… Loading… Finally, your salt has arrived!  Somebody with a love for salt and old, slow operating systems came up with the idea for this awesome pixelated hourglass salt shaker.  Personally, I’m not a huge person for putting extra salt on my food.  I will put it on french fries or onion rings if they…

  • Using Linux sounds dirty [cartoon]

    I’ve been using Linux since around my junior year of high school and it holds a special place in my heart.  There is nothing quite like getting your geek on with the command line to make some magic happen.  Well, I never really gave it much thought, but apparently, it can sound really dirty when…

  • R2-D2 is powered by Android [pic]

    I find that I tend to learn something new every day.  Today, thanks to the t-shirt below, I learned that R2-D2 is powered by the Android operating system.  I wonder which version R2 runs?  I still have 1.5 on my Motorola i1 and I HATE it!  I never thought battery life could suck this bad…

  • PC vs Mac: Who wins what category [infographic]

    Like many, I use many different operating systems on a regular basis.  My gaming destkop runs Windows 7, one of my netbooks runs Windows 7 while the other runs Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP and I also have a MacBook Pro which runs both OS X and Windows 7.  I like different operating systems for…