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About Thomas

Thomas is a self-proclaimed guru (just ask him). He enjoys long walks on the beach, running Mac OS X on his Inspiron 1525, and tweeting about nonsensical life happenings. You can follow Thomas on twitter, email him, or search the interwebs for all his personal information. Neither should be too difficult.

DailyBlogged/Inspiron 1525 Chameleon Theme

May 2nd, 2009

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After finally getting my laptop back from Dell’s repair depot and having time to settle back down, I decided to get to the long awaited task of developing Chameleon themes. Before I get into everything, let me just say that this is my first theme so don’t be too critical. Anyway, for my first one […]

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Great deals… boy do I love them!

April 30th, 2009

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This is gonna be a fairly short post and is more of an F.Y.I. I just wanted to bring attention to Rick Broida’s blog over at Cnet. The blog is called The Cheapstake and features amazing deals on the web. The deals include Refurbished items along with some Rebates, but also sometimes New items with […]

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Adding a dsdt.aml to older installs

April 18th, 2009

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Note: This method works for all versions of Leopard and all distro’s used to install OS X (iPC, XxX, iDeneb, Kalyway, etc.) Lately, many people have been asking about sleep tricks and dsdt.aml’s and instead of Copy & Pasting the same text over and over again, I figured I would put all the information in […]

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Taking advantage of that expensive warranty

April 10th, 2009

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***Just note that this only applies to users who purchased their computer and warranty directly from Dell. If you bought it from BestBuy or some other store, stay away because their policies may be different. It also helps if your warranty includes in-home service so that you can be up and running again in 30 […]

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Update all your applications with AppFresh

April 7th, 2009

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A common problem amongst both Windows and OS X users is that programs/applications are eventually updated but the user is left with the outdated software. Software updates bring about new features and security updates so missing out on them can be unpleasant. Windows users are left with many security holes regardless of whether their system […]

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