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Comment Moderation

I’ve been on the fence on whether to moderate comments more strictly than I do now. I’m not talking about spam, (which I’ve been getting a ton of lately) but the rude, unneeded comments I’ve been seeing appearing on my blog. I’ve always been told that when you moderate comments readers will be unhappy, but I don’t believe that’s true. Nobody wants to be anonymously attacked when they’re reading my blog or any other site on the Internet. I’m writing this post because I will be strictly moderating comments. Don’t worry though, 95% of the comments made on this site are tame and commenters shouldn’t be threatened, they should happy to see the garbage disappear.

What do you think about comment moderation? Freedom of speech? Leave a comment.

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The Next Wave of Macs

The iPhone 3G may have taken all of the attention away from Apple’s computer line, but later this year all eyes will be back on the macs. What to expect in a few months:

-Blu-ray drives will be available on every mac computer (including Mac Mini). Blu-ray drives with burning capabilities available only on Macbook Pro and Mac Pro (at first).

-The Macbook Pro will lose the old style keyboard for the new chiclet style similar to current Macbook. RAM maximum will be increased to 8GB.

-Macbook will get a full refresh. New look, still no metal like Macbook Pro. RAM maximum will be increased to 6GB.

-Macbook will get the multi-touch track-pad like Macbook Pro and Air.

-iMac will get its specs updated.

-Macbook Air will get specs updated. Larger hard drive. Quicker. Same price. External USB drive won’t have Blu-ray.

-Cinema Displays will still be expensive and will remain unchanged.

-Going off topic, iPod Touch will see a price drop of about $50 dollars. iPod Classic won’t be updated.

Tags: apple, hardware, mac, specs, speed, update

Site Update…Finally

You’ve obviously noticed the new look and for the most part I’m done tweaking everything. I wanted to have green in the site because when I see green I think fresh and that’s what r3fresh.com’s all about, fresh design. I’ve also trimmed the excess junk and added a few plugins that will (hopefully) speed up the site overall.

I also wanted to thank the readers, commenters (not a word), and subscribers.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Leave some in the comments or twitter me, @LOR3N.

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