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Improving Computer Performance – Maintenance
Windows is where it’s really at. It has numerous benefits such as the ability to play amazing computer games, write amazing computer programs, (and the most amazing part) it’s cheap! However unlike Macs, Windows requires more maintenance to keep running smoothly and quickly. IT specialist recommend that Windows user perform computer maintenance every 3 to...
Spam Central at The Vandoo
Running The Vandoo has its perks (what?) but one of the more interesting, yet tedious parts of my job here is clearing spam. You know what? You’ll get spam from any site linked into the web. That’s a given. It doesn’t look like we get spam judging from the comments that appear on the site;...
Playing… ‘The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’
My plan this month was simple– finish all of my essays before November 20th, buy this game as soon as the store opened, and just go with it. It’s been five years (to the date) since a console Zelda game, and Skyward Sword started receiving perfect review scores nearly a month ago. If there’s any...
The Idiot’s Guide to Massively Multiplayer Online Games
This was originally published in the Vandoo November Edition! Written by: Barry One of the most famous-yet-infamous gaming genres, Massively Multiplayer Online games, or “MMOs”, dates back nearly thirty years, though gained most of its popularity in the late ’90s and early 2000s with titles such as Runescape, Everquest, and of course, World of Warcraft...
Is RIM Slowly Disappearing from the Market?
Most dedicated BlackBerry users have probably figured by now that these devices are essentially missing the “smart” in “smartphones”. From my personal experience with my BlackBerry Bold 9700, I can’t help but to constantly yearn for better functionality from my BlackBerry to match the standards of an iPhone 4S or even an Android powered phone. There are...
Playing…’Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception’
There are a lot of pretty games out there. Not like…’handsome pretty’. I mean graphically-pleasing. For years, the developers at Naughty Dog have been pushing this stellar IP out of the gates for PS3 players and they’ve struck gold it seems. The first two games were best-sellers and wowed adventure gamers around the world. All...
Playing…Gears of War 3
Q4 is beginning. This is flavour season; every year this is about the time when the big-name games start coming out in anticipation of Christmas shopping time. A couple of weeks ago, Dead Island was the big deal to kick us off. This week, if you weren’t up to speed, it was the highly-anticipated Gears...
Video Games and the University Regime
If you’re like me, you play video games and you have for years. Kudos! The problem I’m going to outline here is the fact that university is very important– so important, in fact, that video games may need to take a bit of a backseat. I’ve lived in a whole bunch of different places over...
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