Minecraft. A game that has seemingly taken over as one of the must-play games of the past few years. A game where you can build virtually anything, and do virtually anything. A game I never bothered with after a trial play a few years ago. Back in early 2010, I started to see the game […]
Let’s face it: mobile devices are taking over every aspect of our digital lives. Why sit in front of a massive desktop tower, or lug around a 10 lb laptop, when a tablet PC, or even your cell phone, can do everything you need to do both on and offline? With seamless integration into social […]
As always, when I feel I have not been active here when I should have, I like to make a post to let people know just what is going on. Anyone who attends conventions of any kind knows there is a wind-down period, where their normal life gets back in gear, and for me, it […]
I have been meaning to make this post for a while now: I am even delayed today posting it due to a power outage in the area. Simply put, I am going to Anime Blues Con. This will be my first ever Anime convention, and I am quite excited. Memphis is not known for having […]
In late 2007, I purchased a Zune 80. I had weighed the options available, the design of units at the time, and the software used to sync them. My experience with iTunes and a borrowed iPod nano had been, suffice to say, less than stellar. Of course, the Zune software was just as clunky, but […]
So, you all know the problems I have had the past few months with video scaling, right? Well, with me having to restore windows on this machine, I naturally had to reinstall the video card drivers, and what would you know, scaling actually works again via GPU. All I can say is that something is […]
So, I am going to have to reinstall Window to my main desktop. The reason? Security center was basically destroyed by a flash based exploit. I noticed a few days ago that, for some reason, the action center icon on the taskbar was just plain gone. Nowhere to be found. I went to the action […]
[Yes, I know this post is long overdue. Sorry about that: as usual life has it’s way of taking up time. That, and Terraria] So, by this time, it was coming up on 2010. Xadara was several years old, but had also grown stagnant. Very little conversation was happening on the forums, and while the […]
So, sometime last year, I decided to see just what the Windows ReadyBoost feature would do on my desktop machine. Yes, I know the feature is designed with laptops in mind, but at the time I did not yet own a Windows 7 based laptop, so there really wasn’t much I could do, save for […]
So, for yet another year, rumor around the internet is that Apple is finally going to kill off the Mac Pro computer line. It’s the same story as previous years: Apple has not said anything major about any changes to the Pro line, when compared to the typical overhauls done every season to the other […]
So, right, with all this talk about Instagram on Android, and me being a guy who likes to take random photographs, I decided to check it out. Oh, those on my Facebook can see the chaos that has come. I have been snapping pictures of virtually any possibly interesting scene just to try out the […]
It was Thanksgiving, 2007. KuriMix 1st and 2nd gen had been released for a short while now, and Xadara was gaining popularity as a community. Small, but vibrant forums, with new members every few days. It was pretty cool, really… Until I woke up that cold November morning. I awake to find my hosting service […]
So, here we are. 5 years ago today, I sat down with a friend and registered the domain http://www.xadara.com. 5 years ago I made the decision to set up a top-level domain presence on the internet. I don’t honestly know how I came up with the name. I know I wanted something unique… something I […]
Eeyup… 5 years is a long time on the internet… especially for a site that has been funded as a labor of love. I am already writing a small history of the site… one entry in which I just posted before this one, so I will leave you all with just the cake… 🙂
Recently, I have been listening to music that I listened to back a decade ago, when I was in High School. Many of these bands I have not really listened to since then, so it was refreshing, in a way to go back to familiar tracks that I was not burnt out on listening to. […]