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Want a CPU Magazine Discount Subscription?

Chris — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:19:42 +0000

Want a CPU Magazine Discount Subscription? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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Even after all these years, I still enjoy reading – and writing for – CPU Magazine. I’ve been working with them since the beginning, back in 2001. CPU Magazine is really geared towards GearHeads. There are reviews about software and hardware, and you can even find the occasional benchmark test. When is the last time you picked one up? If it’s been awhile, why not use a discount and order yourself a subscription for the new year?

The news in the magazine may be a little out-of-date, but I don’t really read it for the news. I read it for the excellent articles you can find every month. I don’t read my article, of course, since I wrote it! I wanted to do a video about CPU Magazine because many of the questions you all ask me on a daily basis could honestly be answered if you were subscribed to this magazine. Things like “What’s the best OS?” and “What RAM should I buy?” can be found each and every month in CPU Magazine.

I swear that the most common question in my live chat room is “What’s the best video card to buy?!”. Well guess what? This month’s issue of CPU Magazine covers the answer to that very conundrum.

Paper isn’t dead yet, so why not order it today? I know that if enough of you are out there who want a subscription, I can probably get all of you a discount. I can’t promise anything, but if enough of you email me your interest, I will forward it to my editor and see what I can do.

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What is Your Day Job?

Chris — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:24:29 +0000

What is Your Day Job? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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People ask me all the time what exactly my ‘day job’ is. What is it that I DO all day every day? I’m about to answer that question once and for all. I am now going to show you what it is I do for a living. Yes, it’s true. I play music in my armpit. But that’s honestly not all I do. So what DO I do?

You can catch the video content that we produce each weeknight over on our YouTube. Of course, you can join us in the chat room, and watch us live as we record those videos!

I run the Lockergnome blogging network, where you can make money simply by writing about your passions or hobbies. We also have our new site just for Geeks, where you can make friends, upload videos and music, write a blog, and participate in forum threads!

When I’m not busy with those things, I also write a monthly column for CPU Magazine, and produce a small segment for CNN Live online each week. I travel occasionally to different Tech events, where I am often asked to be a presenter. I also produce content each month for ExpoTV, reviewing the latest hot tech products on the market.

All in all, there are many different things that I do on a daily basis as my “day job”. I only touched on the main things that you can easily see here. I also put on a large conference each year, called Gnomedex, take care of product reviews for our sponsors, and the like. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. That’s why I’m forever indebted to people like my uber awesome (did I mention awesome?!) assistant Kat, the best System Admin (and all around IT genius!) on the planet Ryan, Editor Bob, and all of the other people who help make everything I do possible. You guys rock, and I couldn’t do it without you.

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VMware and Parallels for Virtual Machines

chris@lockergnome.com (Chris Pirillo) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 GMT

It doesn't matter if you're running on Windows or Mac OS X - every power user needs either Parallels or VMware (or both). There's never been an easier way to test software without destroying your primary operating system's stability. Think of how many times you wish you could press a 'reverse' button on your computer. Plus, there's no easier way to try new Linux distributions - see what all the fuss is about. Run Windows in OS X, run Linux in Windows, but the best way to do either is with VMware and/or Parallels.

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