By Mathew Maher on Oct 18, 2008 in Apple, Events, Featured, Technology | Comments Off
About a week ago, Steve Jobs hosted a special event to announce the new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops to the market, and offering them as their best notebooks.
After viewing Apple’s keynote on Tuesday, October 14, and interacting with them at the Apple Store at the Mall of Georgia location, I’ve come to terms with the new models and the features they offer in the industry.
Sporting Intel’s latest chips and NVIDIA’s latest graphics, the new MacBook, Apple’s entry level machine, is well rounded out a powerful machine. Read the rest
By Mathew Maher on Nov 8, 2008 in Automotive, Cars, Life, Volkswagen | Comments Off
The other day, I was surfing around the VWVortex website and I noticed some people on the fourms had front mounted European license plates on their Volkswagen’s and Audi’s.
In fact, I’ve seen afew German cars around town with their own custom plates So I decided that since I want to go towards an “All Euro” theme with moding the body, that I should order one online. I found GermanPlates.com, a German-based company in the custom plate business and shipped to Canada and the USA, I placed an order for a plate that almost mirrored my Georgia-issued tag. Read the rest
By Mathew Maher on Oct 14, 2008 in Apple, Featured, Google, Life, Microsoft, Technology, Web Broswers, Websites | 0 Comments
Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Over the past few years, these browsers have become common names for web browsers on both Mac and Windows systems, with Apple’s Safari arriving to the Windows platform in June 2007.
Both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox have been big players in the recent browser wars. While Internet Explorer has been losing ground to Firefox over the past few years, the browser wars have appeared once again; this time it’s a battle between FireFox and the other guys: Apple Safari, Opera, and now, Google Chrome.
Google Chrome hit the web browsing market on September 2, 2008 for Windows XP and Vista, and was welcomed as an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser. The open-sourced WebKit HTML-engine and a Google-built JavaScript engine, dubbed “V8 JavaScript”, help power the Chrome browser. Read the rest
By Mathew Maher on Oct 3, 2008 in Events, Friends, Life | Comments Off
It’s something that’s been on my mind for the past few weeks. I knew my contract with WebMD was coming to an end and I’ve put my resume out on Dice.com, CareerBuilder.com, Yahoo! HotJobs, and Monster.com, but I’ve only received view replies to jobs I’ve applied for.
The job market, along with the whole economy, has gone down the crapper and finding a job now is going to be more difficult for me. Companies are looking for the ‘all-in-one’ guy, someone who can do PHP development, Flash ActionScript and other programming languages, which I have yet to master. I was even offered a job with AT&T that required knowledge of C++ programming and Java development – I’ve never taken classes on either language. Like I said, I’ve put my resume out there, but results have been few and far between.
I was talking with my friend, Chris Bartleson, about the whole deal and he pitched the idea of joining the Navy. He’s been in for almost 6 years now and enjoys it. And the more I read the website and look at the careers they have to offer, the more intriguing the idea of joining the Navy sounds. The only part I’m some-what nervous about is the 8 weeks of basic training, and of course, cutting ties with everything here in Georgia.
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