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About Richard

Richard is a professional web developer and business consultant. He opened his first web hosting company at the age of 13 out of his bedroom on an ISDN connection and hasn't looked back since. Richard currently resides in sunny Florida.

Geek Review of MagicJack VoIP

February 2nd, 2009

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After going seriously over my wireless minutes for the past 2 months (unbeknown to me), I decided to put the BlackBerry down and try one of those seemingly fly-by-night “everything” providers, MagicJack. They have been reviewed by many, and I mean many, for having an easy to use, plain Jane product. You plug it in […]

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Inspiron LCD Gone Bad

January 27th, 2009

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Why did it have to happen to me? An issue I can’t resolve — broken hardware. I woke up this morning, opened my laptop and bam… heard a strange sizzling noise for about 2 seconds, then my screen went blank. “Strange,” I thought. I figured it had something to do with rouge permissions or Power […]

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Alltel Deposits Returned

January 19th, 2009

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After years of paying, waiting, and being lied to by multiple customer service representitves regarding them, our wireless deposits have been returned! Amazing enough, one of the deposits (with interest) fit perfectly into another month of service. Funny how that works, huh? The other deposit was actually returned to us rather quickly once people stopped […]

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Smokin’ Hot New Years 2009

January 1st, 2009

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Just before the ball dropped on the East Coast, I was in the bathroom cleaning my contact lenses when I heard some crazy lady screaming from over the backyard fence “House on fire!” I looked around… Wrong! My house isn’t in fire. My neighbor’s house is, though! She banged on my back door and we […]

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HackBook Running Mac OS X 10.5.6

December 15th, 2008

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Note: You can fix all your broken hardware that results from this update with this handy guide. It looks like another release of our favorite Operating System is out: Mac OS X 10.5.6. Has anyone tried to upgrade yet from 10.5.5 (Kalyway)? I’m hitting the update button now. Wish me luck! UPDATE! Downloaded fine but […]

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