Max Beatty

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    Easily Annotate PDFs with Skim

    Today, a friend of mine asked if I would read over her per­sonal state­ment for grad school and I wanted to give her solid, easy to com­pre­hend feed­back. I’ve never had luck using com­ment­ing in word proces­sors and have seen anno­ta­tions in PDFs before but never found a good pro­gram to do them myself. Luckily, […]

    Stop with the “New Phone/Need Numbers” Facebook Groups and Events

    Not a day goes by where one of my friends hasn’t cre­ated or joined one of those annoy­ing “lost my phone, got a new one, need num­bers” groups or events on Face­book. While it’s funny to read what dumb drunken act destroyed most people’s phones, it’s annoy­ing they don’t use Facebook’s built in phone­book. It’s […]

    Building a $100 1TB External Hard Drive

    In May of 2007, I bought a 1TB exter­nal hard drive that con­sisted of 4 250GB hard dri­ves that worked together for over $366. It was awe­some and still works great. Last week I bought a Hitachi 1TB SATA hard drive for $79.99 after rebate (it’s in the mail) and a SATA to eSATA & USB 2.0 External […]

    Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

    A few weeks ago an old friend of mine sent me a Face­book mes­sage say­ing that he lap­top was run­ning out of hard drive space and wanted my opin­ion on what she should do. Of course, I told her to get an exter­nal hard drive to store all of her music, pho­tos, and movies so […]