AaronEiche.com

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  • Finding my Footing

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    Back in February I decided to make a change to this website. It had gone from being a professional showcase to a blog. Part of the change was inspired by my seeing blogs out there where people made money. The formula is a common one: “Hey! I can write stuff, and people will visit my…

  • WWDC Keynote reflections

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    First off: No, I was not actually present at the keynote this morning. I was watching updates flow in through the news feed while at work. I wish I had been because it was a busy day.

  • The garage you’ve always wanted: TechShop Portland

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    A few years back I started to get more nerdy than I had ever been. By more nerdy, I mean that I began to take an interest in a wide variety of things that leaned on the technical and electronic side. I became interested in making, modeling, and very much the “DIY” (Do-It-Yourself) mentality about…

  • Gadget FlashBack: The Apple Newton MessagePad

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    What can possibly more be said about the Newton, that hasn’t been said already? I’m not really sure, but something drove me to own one… actually, I owned a MessagePad 2100, and 5 eMate 300s.

  • Kindle iPhone App

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    I’ve never been really into ebooks. The primary trouble has always been a matter of how to read them. Computers are inconvenient because they’re only in one place. Though I do spend a lot of time at my desk, I don’t approach the Internet the same way I do recreational reading. Even a laptop would…

  • Throwing Skribit into the mix

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    It’s been a few weeks since I setup the blog. I’ve had a goal to post often, and by often I mean about 3 times a week. I did not realize what that meant at the time I think. I imagined this blog to be something similar to a bit of a tech-cool-stuff blog. The…

  • The Safari 4 Beta – some notes.

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    In a few words: I don’t like it… much I need to be fair though. I need to offer at least arguments for why I don’t like Safari 4, and it’s important to note that in spite of the definition, a beta product can be changed. To clarify that, Beta means that it’s gone from…

  • iPhone Apps

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    iPhone apps have been around as long as I’ve had an iPhone.I got my iPhone about 6 months in, on Christmas of 07, as many people did. Apple hadn’t yet allowed iPhone apps developed with the SKD (and at that point, had no intention of releasing such a thing) and so the Jail-breaking community took…

  • Committing to the Change

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    Since I learned there was such a thing as a content management system, I’ve tried more than once to move my website into one. The problem I’ve universally run into was that, fundementally, I really like the idea of home-rolling my own website. I like creating the structure of the system. I think my favorite…

  • Blogging

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    I’ve been working up to this for several weeks now. I decided recently that I wanted my website to be more than just a landing page for people interested in hiring me. I wanted to supply the world with information, help people out, be interesting, have a following, and all that stuff that most people…