http://www.melikbilge.com Technology and design from a 13 year old's perspective. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:57:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This laptop has served me well for the past 3 years. Since I received it for my 11th birthday as a present, it hasn't needed any system re-installs or hard drive formats. Sure, it has its ups and downs and I do like to tweak every possible thing, but we ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/11/30/what-im-running-on-this-machine/ I was planning to redesign this blog for quite a bit of time. For weeks, I did not have the oppurtunity. Finally, last week, I had the time to start the theme. After 4 days, I had a working draft. However, after browsing around a little bit, I realized I could ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/10/27/design-takes-some-time/ I think writing "Why Personal Blogging Might Be For Me" was a great idea, I feel like writing new posts much more than before. Wait for the redesign a bit longer... Anyway, I've decided to put this post as a warning to all techies on Windows who think it's a great ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/10/14/why-you-should-leave-windows-system-files-alone/ Last week, Ben Armstrong, Hayes Potter, and I decided to start an audio podcast. Last Thursday, we recorded the around-45-minute tech discussion. Our other colleagues in the podcast were Sean Hennessey from his blog, http://pursuitforspeed.wordpress.com, Nicole Dominguez at http://sodevious.net, and Colton Cockman. Ben recorded the podcast through his studio at home, ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/10/12/your-tech-today-podcast/ So, I started this blog by the intention of only having a space on the interwebs, and a bit of passion for tech. I still love having my own website and I most definitely still am passionate about technology. I will supply you with a little content. Many bloggers write because ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/09/30/why-personal-blogging-might-be-for-me/ Google released a 37-page comic yesterday about their soon-to-be-released product, The Google Chrome web browser. It is supposed to implement new ideas from the Google team, plus some great past ideas from other browsers, namely Firefox. I most likely will do a review when it is released, which I'm hoping is ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome/ I run Windows XP Home Edition on my 2005 Sony Vaio laptop. As with most Vaios during that time, my laptop came with 512 megabytes of RAM installed. I had the option of buying more RAM for a maximum of 2 GB. Well, I ordered two 1GB sticks on Monday, ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/08/27/upgrading-from-512mb-of-ram-to-2gb/ I know I've been blogging about the iPhone/iPod touch a lot lately, but I love the new things coming to them. The developers who brought Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle to the iPhone and iPod touch have also release FriendBook, a social contacts application available in the App Store for ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/07/19/friendbook-another-app-from-tapulous/ Tapulous, a great, independent iPhone developer group, released hours ago the long-awaited Twinkle app. Twinkle is free, much better in my opinon than Twitterific, the previous main Twitter client for the iPhone. As any previous Twittering jailbreaker would know, Twinkle was available unofficially through the Installer.app before the 2.0 update. Twinkle ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/07/17/twinkle-the-new-app-store-app-from-tapulous/ Yesterday, I managed to update my iPod touch to 2.0, leaving my jailbreaking behind to get AppStore. As millions of iPod touch users know, the update came 16 hours late; instead of July 11, 8:00 am Eastern USA time, it came online 12:30 am the next day. Strangely, the update downloaded ... http://www.melikbilge.com/2008/07/13/ipod-touch-20-reviewed/