Strilecktronics- A Tech Blog

Unofficially dub thee Skynet 

NZXT Phantom 410 - Special Edition "Gunmetal"

Prepping my ASRock Z77 Extreme4 for installation tomorrow. This board came highly recommended; it provides all the high end features at a lower entry price. Benchmarks VERY well for overclocking, so we’ll see!

Almost done with my 2013 build! Just need to order some memory, a graphics card and a new SSD. The case (NZXT Phantom 410 SE Gunmetal) and CPU cooler (Corsair H80i) are in-route! 

Skiftkey 3 is by far the most popular keyboard app available on the Android Market today. Hell, it’s one of the most popular apps period. All the fame is well deserved, though.

Simply put, Swiftkey 3 is fast, fluent, and pretty to look at. I found it to be more responsive than the stock keyboard on my Galaxy S3. It’s not a resource hog like some of those poorly coded keyboard apps out there either.

The strongest aspect of Skiftkey 3 is its text prediction. Even with a 4.8’ screen, my chubby fingers constantly found their way to the wrong keys. The integrated keyboard’s predict text did very little to help, as it would almost always predict something totally off! Swiftkey 3 is always spot on. I don’t stop when I hit the wrong key, I just keep going, and it corrects it with remarkable accuracy. It has VASTLY improved my typing speed and response time. You can go even one step further and have it analyze your typing patterns on Facebook, Twitter, and text messages; though I opted out because I’m still a conspiracy theorist at heart and certainly don’t want to surrender my privacy, at least not that easily.

For all of you who suffer from tinkeritis, that need to customize and fiddle with settings and appearances, worry not—that’s here too. Swiftkey 3 has plenty of color schemes to choose from, all of which look very nice, especially on a higher resolution screen.

The only downside I can see so far is the lack of Swype. However, this feature is currently in beta for the next version of Swiftkey.

I've resolved to use only a Linux based OS for the entirety of my programming course. Being a Windows man, at times feel like a foreigner lost in a city, and I don't speak the native language. 

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The Intel Edge program is offering the third gen i7 3770k for a measly $105. To qualify for purchase you must be able to prove employment with one of the following stores: AARON'S ABC WAREHOUSE ABT ELECTRONICS ACTIONLINK ADORAMA ALTEX ELECTRONICS AMERICAN APPLE RETAIL STORE ASN DEPOT B&H PHOTO VIDEO & PRO AUDIO BCOM COMPUTER CENTRE BEST BUY (CANADA) BEST BUY (USA) BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB BRANDSMART USA BUY.COM CANADA COMPUTERS CDW CENTRAL COMPUTERS COMPUSA OUTLET STORES (TIGER OUTLET STORES) COMPUTER STOP CONN'S COSTCO DATAVISION DELL EXPERIENCE CENTER DIGILINK COMPUTERS DIRECTRON ELECTRONIC EXPRESS FAMSA FRY'S ELECTRONICS FUTURE SHOP GEEK SQUAD HHGREGG HSN INSIGHT INTREX J&R MUSIC AND COMPUTER WORLD KEHTRON COMPUTERS LA CURACAO LONDON DRUGS MARKETSOURCE – HP MARKETSTAR – HP MARKETSTAR – SONY MDG COMPUTERS CANADA MEMORY EXPRESS MICRO CENTER MICROBYTES MICROSOFT STORE MILWAUKEE PC MOSAIC – HP NCIX.COM/NETLINK COMPUTER NEBRASKA FURNITURE MART NEXCOM NEWEGG OFFICE DEPOT OFFICEMAX PC CONNECTION PC LAPTOPS PC MALL PC VILLAGE PRIORITY COMPUTER SYSTEMS PURCHASING POWER QVC RADIOSHACK RCS COMPUTER EXPERIENCE RENT-A-CENTER SAM'S CLUB SAMSUNG SEARS SONY FACTORY OUTLET SONY STAPLES STAPLES BUSINESS DEPOT SUPERIOR COMPUTERS SUPERIOR PC SYSTEMS TECH ADVANCED COMPUTERS THE SOURCE TIGER DIRECT CALL CENTER TOSHIBA WAL-MART (CANADA) WAL-MART (USA)