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It’s offical. I’m switching to a Mac

I have been thinking about switching to a Mac for a long time, but there has always been something standing in the way that still pushed me back to the PC.One, games. A year ago, I could see myself living life with out video games, but that has all changed. I still love video games, but it isn’t as much as a priority anymore.

Two, I can’t fully forget Windows. My job requires me to know everything there is to know about all OS’s. I couldn’t possibly imagine not keeping up-to-date in Windows world.

I have changed my mind however. I have seen the signs, and I read them right. I had a feeling Apple would switch over to Intel, and soon I feel AMD will come into the picture too. There were signs that Apple was working on getting .exe’s and Windows working on there machines and its true, Windows works on the Intel macs, and they even put this out.

Windows on a Mac? Introducing the Boot Camp Public Beta

The next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, will included a new feature called Boot Camp, which lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on Intel-based Macs, like the new Mac mini and iMac. To experience this today, download the free Boot Camp Public Beta. Switching was never such an easy choice.

With the move to intel boards, it is my feeling that more and more of the good games, will come to the Mac. I also feel that Apple will soon put out something to match, even beat ActiveX.

With all of this, I have decided today that I am going to be ditching my PC, and I’m going to by a MacBook Pro. I don’t plan on buying it for two to three more months, and hopefully they will have Rev. 2 of the MacBook Pro out by then.

More people should follow in my steps ;)

Shosholoza Tech. Member Search

We have suffered some losses lately and I have lost two team members with Shosholoza Technologies. I am now looking for anyone who is willing to commit some time, and talents, for free to join the team.

What we are looking for:
-Graphic Designers
-Coders
-Advertisers

Skills and Experience needed:

-We are looking for people that are serious about there work, and really know there skills. You should have plenty of background on your skill.
-Should have experience working with teams
-Needs to have plenty of experience with wordpress.
-Should have some background in the other jobs, even if its not the one you do. Meaning, if you are a coder, you should still now some graphic design.

What the team does:
We get together and help each other with projects. We are always making new templates, and improving others work.

So if you are interested, drop a line in the comments section and let me know.

Windows hidden “taskkill”-er

There comes a time… okay let me start that again. There are multiple times, almost every stinking hour, when on a windows machine when some program locks up and the task manager doesn’t seem to do what it is made to do… END TASKS.

Do not fret though my fellow windows zombies, there is a tool that windows has added that is very secret. I have no clue why it is secret, cuz everyone should know this. Maybe its not a secret, but more of just not talked about, but anyways its called “taskkiller”.

The consecpt is easy enough, good into taskmanager, find the name of the task that won’t quit, and write it down. Then open up Notepad and type something like this

@echo off
taskkill/im NAMEOFTASK.exe /f

and save as a .bat (Batch file)
In place of the NAMEOFTASK type in what you wrote down earlier, and run the batch file, and ta da! Instant end of the task.

Hopes this helps some of you techs out there that have been emailing me ;)

P.S. Incase you are wondering a breakdown of the code to get the meaning, here it is.

taskkill= the .exe that runs to kill the task
/im= the image name of the task to be killed
/f= to force the kill

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