Chris

Author's details

Name: Chris Kasten
Date registered: November 12, 2005
URL: http://ckas10.pip.verisignlabs.com/

Biography

I consider myself a jack-of-all-trades. Which means I know a little about a lot... or think I do, at any rate. Check my "About Me" page for more info.

Latest posts

  1. A Quick Look at the Kindle Fire — November 25, 2011
  2. 7” Eee Screen Resolution Tip — July 30, 2011
  3. Another Tool for the Cleaning Toolbox — July 10, 2011
  4. Living with Win7 Starter Edition — June 18, 2011
  5. Revisiting Unity — June 10, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. First Release: Visualize Advanced Features — 73 comments
  2. Linux Alternative for EverNote / OneNote? — 55 comments
  3. Quick Firefox tweak – free mem — 50 comments
  4. Second Release: Add Related Posts to Your Feed — 47 comments
  5. Frets On Fire — 42 comments

Author's posts listings

Nov
25

A Quick Look at the Kindle Fire

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No, I haven’t bought a Kindle Fire yet. Good grief folks, you know I never rush out and buy first gen things! However, my friend Rich (blog | twitter | G+) recently bought one and offered to let me play with it for a week or so while he’s busy working and writing. I, of …

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Jul
30

7” Eee Screen Resolution Tip

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I have a “classic” old Asus Eee 701 4G netbook that I like to dust off from time to time and monkey with. The size is definitely ultra-portable, and so is the keyboard which is, to be honest, why I don’t use it more often.. The biggest challenge with this thing though is screen resolution …

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Jul
10

Another Tool for the Cleaning Toolbox

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Like many who are responsible for curing the PCs of friends and family, I’ve been leaning on the 1-2 combo punch of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (free) and SUPERAntiSpyware (also free) for the past year or so. Between the two of them — and judicious use of Safe Mode scanning — I’ve been able to cure most …

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Jun
18

Living with Win7 Starter Edition

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Several weeks ago I received a little Toshiba netbook (model NB255). Last year’s model, but sporting the dual-core Atom N455 processor, 250 GB drive — and I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB before even leaving the store. Stunning how many netbooks with 1GB RAM that can’t be upgraded! It also has the 6 cell …

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Jun
10

Revisiting Unity

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Back in the Ubuntu 10.10 era I decided to have a look at this new Ubuntu Unity thing that all the cool kids were blogging about. At first glance it looked like just the thing for netbooks. My resulting blog post on the topic was so incredibly negative that I ended up deleting the post …

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