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Alright guys, hopefully this will be an ongoing series of "Stupid tricks you shouldn't fall for." Episode 1: Cables. Of all kinds. Seriously. Check it out some time. Go online, and look up some kind of cable. Any cable. VGA, DVI, Composite, Component, CAT5, CAT6, SATA, USB, FireWire, whatever. Sort it by price. You'll notice something interesting. At the low end, cables come relatively cheap. Take for instance, SATA150 cables. One cable costs $9.99. Another? $2.49 Why a $7.50 cent variance?… Continue

I'm on Chrome right now, and I must say, I love it for a few reasons. Firstly, Chrome hits the ground running: Seriously. From a cold boot, the browser is up and running in about four seconds, compared to the 21 seconds that it takes Firefox to load. After initial boot, it's load time is even faster, but I don't have a stopwatch on hand to time. Probably less than two seconds. Firefox's warm load time does drop down to about four seconds, but still, that initial load for Firefox is a kil… Continue