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[GUIDE] Easiest Step-By-Step Tutorial for Creating an Ice Cream Sandwich Virtual Machine on a PC This guide contains instructions for setting up an Android 4.x (ICS) Virtual Machine inside of the Oracle Virtual Box software. These instructions will work on Windows, MacOS X, Linux and Solaris. === INSTRUCTIONS (Build Revision: 2012-03-07): Install VirtualBox (version 4.1.14-77440 [...]

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Connor on June 9th, 2010

In 2004 I had a Netflix subscription.  At the time it was by mail only, 3 DVDs at a time, no streaming, but I was still giddy about the whole experience.  Well, 4-5 years later they decided to offer instant streaming to your TV or computer.  Well, after ditching them in 2006 due to the [...]

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Connor on January 27th, 2010

I know that I have not updated this in a while, so putting “Final Update” might seem a bit out of place since I really havent updated gradually along the way.  Isn’t that how it always is…start out with good intentions, do it strong for a short while, then fade away and try to reclaim [...]

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Connor on January 27th, 2010

In the last six months, America has fallen victim to what I like to call “The Setup.”  Now, you can call it whatever you like, and if it makes it more vivid for you, let’s call it The Sleeping Tiger.  This new “president” has given nothing but speech after speech about the economy, and what [...]

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Connor on November 28th, 2009

Hmm, where do I begin.  I honestly do not know that a blog post or words of any for can do this movie justice.  When you talk about something, you have the responsibility of representing it correctly and accurately to an uninformed audience.  Well, you are my audience, and it is up to me to [...]

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Connor on September 15th, 2009

Some of you may have heard that Pioneer has started making some of their new drives LabelFlash capable (2005 technology, but still way better than ugly puke-yellow LightScribe). These enabled models include the DVR-217 and DVR-218. Well, for those of you like me who have the DVR-216, which is not LabelFlash capabale from the factory, [...]

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Connor on August 7th, 2009

They are few and far between, and only account for about 0.01% of the eBay user population among sellers, however I feel it is my duty to share my findings with other ebay users. For those who don’t know a “Santa Claus User” on eBay is a user who sells stuff for way cheaper than [...]

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Connor on July 9th, 2009

If anyone ever gives you tips on how to get out of jury duty, I hope that you set them straight, nicely of course, and tell them that serving on a jury is our second most important civic duty, second only to our responsibility of voting. I went through the process, which is a rather [...]

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Well, for the most part, Verizon Wireless is the best wireless company, at least in the mid/south west. The coverage in the entire USA is the best, and the network is more far reaching than ATT’s. Plus, there are no roaming charges anymore since 2007, so even if I am out of network or in [...]

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