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Cleaning the laptop touchpad == smooth & effective mousing

via liz revision by Liz on Feb 11, 2007 When left to my own devices I can spend up to 14 hours a day doing work / researching / internetting / blogging / promoting / making tracks. Being a girl who wears nailpolish and likes the foofy hand lotions, it needless to say starts accumulating on the touchpad of my laptop and make mousing rather frustrating. What’s the best way to clean it? The manual…

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Cleaning the laptop touchpad == smooth & effective mousing

When left to my own devices I can spend up to 14 hours a day doing work / researching / internetting / blogging / promoting / making tracks. Being a girl who wears nailpolish and likes the foofy hand lotions, it needless to say starts accumulating on the touchpad of my laptop and make mousing rather frustrating. What’s the best way to clean it? The manual says I should only use water and a dry…

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Chicago local jewelry designers’ show

Still haven’t decided on a gift for your Valentine? If you’re Chicago-based check out this opportunity to find a unique jewelry piece created by local designers while noshing on hors d’oeuvres and sipping drinks. I’ll be participating in this event tomorrow through my jewelry line, Zelle. Read more… or Read more right here… » The Jewelry Designer’s Show Thursday, February 8, 7�9PM Maxim’s: The Nancy Goldberg International Center 24 E. Goethe Street (at Astor Street)…

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Game Boy Advance Emulation Fun

via liz revision by Liz on Feb 02, 2007 The scene above is a capture of my (messy) desktop with a Game Boy Advance emulator running to play Yuan Su Da Zhan. I’m using Visual Boy Advance–a great little program that lets you play Game Boy Roms on your PC (yeah, it’s Windows only, sorry). Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 [Download – Windows] * Button A – Z * Button B – X * Button L…

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Game Boy Advance Emulation Fun

The scene above is a capture of my (messy) desktop with a Game Boy Advance emulator running to play Yuan Su Da Zhan. I’m using Visual Boy Advance–a great little program that lets you play Game Boy Roms on your PC (yeah, it’s Windows only, sorry). Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 [Download – Windows] * Button A – Z * Button B – X * Button L – A * Button R – S * Movement…

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IRON CHEF OF MUSIC: Kracfive’s sample-chopping, beat-dicing “producer battle”

The people behind Kracfive have come up with an innovative music-composition contest / event loosely based upon the televised “Iron Chef” competition: The Iron Chef of Music. Both a global and local “competition,” the source sample is released upon the world at the same time and participants are given a set amount of time to produce their creations. Contributors from all over the world, either working alone or in composing-cells like the one I attended,…

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IRON CHEF OF MUSIC: Kracfive's sample-chopping, beat-dicing "producer battle"

The people behind Kracfive have come up with an innovative music-composition contest / event loosely based upon the televised “Iron Chef” competition: The Iron Chef of Music. Both a global and local “competition,” the source sample is released upon the world at the same time and participants are given a set amount of time to produce their creations. Contributors from all over the world, either working alone or in composing-cells like the one I attended,…

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