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It's summer, get out there and wash and polish those cars!

Summer Fun!

School's out, summer jobs are starting, and free time is being filled with fun stuff instead of homework... Summer is here! Apple released their new line of cheaper laptops called the MacBook (starting at $1049). New Mac OS X tip, and if you're really bored, you can always check out the list of Summer Fun Ideas...

Home?

So yeah, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get home tomorrow...
This is a bridge in York that was affected by the flood.

Flood!!!

Nice Big Flood... Click the picture for the whole album.

Ryan McCalmon

This is a local Maine boy who's playing smooth "pop/soul' as he calls it. Do not play this unless you're ready to be relaxed! Listen to his music on my Podcast, his MySpace, or you can get tour dates and a bio at his website.

Grain Surfboards on TV!

Many of you know that my buddy Sam and I have been building a hollow body wooden surfboard in our free time, which isn't much, and our main inspiration comes from these guys down in York, ME. Mike and Rich from Grain Surfboards have been helping us out a lot, they have a real chill attitude towards the good life, so check 'em out. You can see their video clip on the Non Tech Projects page!

Hybrid Hard Drive

What? Huh? Who? Me? Right??? Hell Yeah I called it!

"The HHD is the convergence of a flash memory chip and a conventional platter-type magnetic disk drive. To save the time and energy spent spinning a metal disk drive it is designed to use static flash memory when starting a PC." ~The Korea Times

I totally called this one back a month or so ago. This is a product made by Samsung that has a regular hard drive and a flash based hard drive. This makes it capable of 5 second start-ups! This is AWESOME! Vista capable as of next month, probably be Mac capable a few months later, maybe in time for Apple's WWDC in August.

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Spore

----I usually don't like video games unless they are either racing games or games like Tony Hawk, but Spore is an exception. This is a wicked cool game where you start out on a molecular level and you work your way up until you develop an evolved species. You can completely design what kind of species you want with customizable body structures, defense systems, movement styles, etc. Eventually your species will reproduce and make more of what you designed, then making villages and cities. This is a crazy game where you can take over other cities and eventually the whole world, then you can go into space and take over other worlds, you can visit worlds made by other people playing the game via the internet. This game never ends, literally, you can always keep going and conquering. For a lengthy video showing the game off you can check out this video made by the creator, who also is the creator of Sim City and the Sims.

Podcasts?

Do whatever you can, get podcasts into your life. They will make you laugh, more educated, hell you'll just plain enjoy technology for how well it works. This is an application of technology that anyone has to appreciate. Check out the Helpful Hack section for more information.

New Mac Ads

Just check 'em out for yourself! Subscribe to my podcast and you will get one a day for the next six days!

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May Mix!

Check out this month's playlist! The May Mix is a good flashback to some great tunes from the 90's! Click on either picture to go to the iTunes music store to preview these sweet oldies! Then either buy em or download em, but definitely give em a listen, they'll bring you back.

Wii

----Anyone who's a serious gamer will know that the Microsoft made Xbox 360 is the big console among the gamers, and soon the Sony PS3 will be out, but sooner than the PS3 is the Nintendo Revolution... uh Wii will be out, sorry, the stupid name gets me every time. I'm excited for the Wii, it's going to boast an easy to use controller and motion sensed gameplay. I am not a gamer at all, hell, I still use my N64. I don't play the strategy games, just not for me. I like MarioKart and Tony Hawk, I'll play some one on one 007, but I'm what you might call a passive gamer.
----Anyways, I'm looking forward to the $149-$199 price point, and the slew of awesome, relaxed games.

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