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Re: Running Ubuntu 11 On The iPad 2

Vibhav — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:36:09 -0000

the question is how?

Re: Progress And Update On Cancer Fight

Jake Spurlock — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:21:03 -0000

Keep up the good fight!

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #2

Thom Allen — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:27:47 -0000

Well, you win! Send me a message through this site with your mailing address and I'll get the ticket out to you ASAP. Thanks for playing!

Re: Google+ Blogging For The Past Month

Thom Allen — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:53:34 -0000

Matt, it's been a while since you left this but I never clarified what you meant by Google+ will be passed? Thanks my friend.

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #2

Thom Allen — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:19:43 -0000

Anh Pham brought up a good question, how will I know who posted what on social media. Please leave your social media links in the comments, it's the only way I'm going to know. You should be able to come back and edit your comment. Good luck everyone.

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #2

Anh — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:17:35 -0000

Can't wait for FantasyCon! It's going to be great! https://twitter.com/Aelyn07 and http://instagram.com/anhpham07

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #1

Thom Allen — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:25:43 -0000

w00t for Jim Astin and Margaret Annie who win the Thursday FantasyCon tickets. Another giveaway starts today.

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #1

Margaret Annie — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:16:56 -0000

I am a huge Tolkien fan. Reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings got me through a lot of tough times in life, and I'd really love to go to meet Royd Tolkien just to tell him how much his great-grandfather's work has meant to me. Also, the cast from the movies look like awesome guys to hang out with!

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #1

Jim Astin — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:23:20 -0000

I am distantly related (second cousins) to Sean Astin and I wanna meet him so bad!

Re: Salt Lake City Utah FantasyCon 2014 Ticket Giveaway #1

kat_lynch — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:46:37 -0000

This would be an awesome way to spend time with my favortie teck guy!

Re: Let Me Show You How To Spell WordPress Correctly

Thom Allen — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:48:22 -0000

You're asking if I would write an article similar to this one only about the proper use of the domain name right? Be glad too.

Re: Let Me Show You How To Spell WordPress Correctly

Jeffro — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:45:17 -0000

Perhaps you could help us out in politely enforcing the WordPress trademark as well :) http://www.wptavern.com/fri...

Re: Apple iOS 7 Translucent UI Needs Help

Thom Allen — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:22:15 -0000

Maybe, all I know is it's exactly what I do when I want to close down an app on my Nexus 7. I guess all OS's steal things that are cool. It's always been that way.

Re: Apple iOS 7 Translucent UI Needs Help

Joseph Scott — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:47:53 -0000

I haven't used an iOS 7 device yet, but the images I've seen haven't impressed me. I think it looks kinda ugly :-(

Perhaps my opinion will change with some real use of iOS 7.

simply perform the Android maneuver of sliding it off the screen

Wasn't WebOS the first to use that style?

Re: Trying And Failing Really Sucks

Laura Moncur — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:34:18 -0000

I'm so excited for you! Isn't it wonderful when you KNOW that you DON'T want to do something and you can cross it off your list? It's not a failure. It's streamlining your process. Keep up the good work!

Re: Trying And Failing Really Sucks

Thom Allen — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:22:43 -0000

This was kind of a rambling mess of thoughts. It started out as one things, and sort of morphed into something completely different. I guess that's what I get for posting late at night.

Re: Google+ Blogging For The Past Month

Matt Storms — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 01:53:10 -0000

Google+ will be passed sometime in early 2016 so if you jump on it now you will be a leader then.

Re: Ouya Is Still In Beta Mode

Laura Moncur — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:50:41 -0000

I hadn't even heard of this game console, but with these things it's ALL about the content. If they can't get the games that are fun to play, the fact that you can try games for free or that the controller feels flimsy is irrelevant. People don't buy consoles. They buy games. It's the ONE thing that Microsoft understands about the gaming industry.

Re: Android 4.2.2 Arrives For My Nexus 7

Thom Allen — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:01:31 -0000

Really just a bunch of annoying bug fixes, no new features. There is a pretty good Bluetooth fix in there, and a fixed bug when trying to control the device over command line. More here: http://www.androidcentral.c...

Re: Android 4.2.2 Arrives For My Nexus 7

Jessie Morris — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:52:52 -0000

What are the new features in 4.2.2 that I can look forward to?

Re: Microsoft Comes To Utah City Creek

Thom Allen — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:27:48 -0000

Yeah that's what it will look like!

Re: Microsoft Comes To Utah City Creek

Thom Allen — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:27:40 -0000

It will at least be fun to see the store in action.

Re: Microsoft Comes To Utah City Creek

Thom Allen — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:26:17 -0000

Now Google will be getting into the retail game. No word if they will have a store in Utah, but it's interesting timing that the big guns of the tech industry are opening stores. Google says customers need to try products before they buy. Really? Isn't that why BestBuy and other big box electronic stores have failed to do, turn walk in customers into buying customers? Maybe this is different.

http://9to5google.com/2013/...

Re: Microsoft Comes To Utah City Creek

Dustin Davis — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:01:43 -0000

I can already picture what it will look like http://tech.fortune.cnn.com...

Re: Microsoft Comes To Utah City Creek

Emhedrick — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:48:17 -0000

No!!! Why couldn't Apple move into that location? Okay fine... I'm open to competition. I suppose it would make it easier to pick up Halo 5 from there whenever it comes out.