A couple of days ago there was this awesome deal on the Gateway M-6827 laptop. It was sold for $549 instead of the regular price of $699 (at Office Depot).  If you haven’t seen the pattern in most of the things I reviewed, it’s the fact that I like good deals. So what makes this laptop awesome? Let’s start with the spec (I promise you, it gets way more interesting):

• 15.4″-diagonal widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) UltraBright™ LCD screen
• Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5750 operating at 2.0GHz 2MB L2 cach
• 3GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory (2GB + 1GB)
• 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive
• Multiformat DVD drive with Double Layer support (reads/writes DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD±R Double Layer, CD-R/RW); supports disc labeling on Labelflash media
• Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g) wireless LAN
• Integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, for live video chat and still photos
• 5-in-1 memory card reader: reads SD, MMC, xD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with up to 384MB shared memory

And on top of that, it has a pretty slick and new design. Which leads me to wonder why it was so cheap.

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Like every aspiring designer (read “wannabe”) one must have a business card to hand out. So a couple of weeks ago, I decided to get some of my business card design printed. Self print that is. I wanted to try and see the outcome myself before I go out and bought a whole bundle of professionally printed one. Not the best choice, but I think the print quality itself isn’t that bad. Although one of my set of cards are turning yellow for some reason (used to be gray). Not that big of a deal, but I’ve never seen anything like that happen before, so it was interesting. Well as interesting as a business card can get

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There are people in this life who think that our freewill might be an illusion. Me included. Often the analogy used is that we’re basically living in a maze. Sure we can make this or that turn, but no matter where we turn the path ahead has already been laid out. But the question is, is it possible to break the wall of the maze? And if it is, does breaking it send you to another maze? Or does it just let you roam free outside?

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I would like to share with you my latest work that you are free to download. I dubbed it PureFront because it runs off PureEdit and FrameFront. This is my first time running on either platform as they are still fresh of the oven. And no this is not another CMS, it’s just a theme/website template. In case you didn’t know, PureEdit is basically a back end CMS solution that doesn’t touch the front end at all. While FrameFront only touches the front end and doesn’t touch the back. This makes them a powerful combination. Michael Dick is behind this awesome creation. I suggest you check it out. The great thing about PureEdit is that it is really flexible and customizable. You can create your own plugin, add fields, create a theme for the CMS, write a translation, and even rework the whole thing to your liking. In his own word:

Framefront. The most simplistic front-end framework you’ll ever meet.

PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming. By allowing such uncommon flexibility, PureEdit empowers you to design web sites from the ground up, without forcing you to follow the narrow template rules you’ll find elsewhere.

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