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How does a docking station work if you're hooking it up to two ore more monitors? I've noticed a lot of the lighter/thinner laptops only have HDMI and no dvi/VGA. Is there a loss of quality with the docking station?
 

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How does a docking station work if you're hooking it up to two ore more monitors? I've noticed a lot of the lighter/thinner laptops only have HDMI and no dvi/VGA. Is there a loss of quality with the docking station?

If there is that bytch will be returned immediately, and I will be coping the XPS 15. I have a portable usb monitor that I use on the go and have never had a problem; it connects via usb 3.0.
 

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That Wordpress setup is dope! Shoot me some links.

Appreciate it, just felt bad knowing clients are paying the price of a whip and getting a stock wordpress backend.

I literally have 8-10 projects I'm developing right now. I'll be developing my portfolio site after they are completed.

I work as lead developer at NoFavorite: Custom web design in New York City and the most recent site we launched was http://colossalmedia.com/

I'm on behance and forrst as well:
Forrst | Niko Lowry (Badvillain) is a developer & designer
Badvillain Creative on Behance
 

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Appreciate it, just felt bad knowing clients are paying the price of a whip and getting a stock wordpress backend.

I literally have 8-10 projects I'm developing right now. I'll be developing my portfolio site after they are completed.

I work as lead developer at NoFavorite: Custom web design in New York City and the most recent site we launched was Colossal Media | We hand paint large ads and murals all over the country. Colossal Media is the largest hand painted mural company in the world.

I'm on behance and forrst as well:
Forrst | Niko Lowry (Badvillain) is a developer & designer
Badvillain Creative on Behance

Nice work. Very impressed. :ehh:

I haven't looked into custom backends/admin themes in awhile. Always seemed like too much of a pain the ass. This was years ago of course. When you had to fukk with core files to get it exactly right. Which made upgrades a pain in the ass.

Maybe I'll look into it again. Definitely adds value to a site.

I teach a night class on web dev. I used the Colossal site as a good example of Responsive design.

Off topic: What kind of traffic are you seeing off of that AllTop for Rap idea? I have a crazy football related domain (have been offered mid $xx,xxx for it) that I was thinking about using the idea with. Didn't see a way I could monetize it though.
 

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Nice work. Very impressed. :ehh:

I haven't looked into custom backends/admin themes in awhile. Always seemed like too much of a pain the ass. This was years ago of course. When you had to fukk with core files to get it exactly right. Which made upgrades a pain in the ass.

Maybe I'll look into it again. Definitely adds value to a site.

I teach a night class on web dev. I used the Colossal site as a good example of Responsive design.

Off topic: What kind of traffic are you seeing off of that AllTop for Rap idea? I have a crazy football related domain (have been offered mid $xx,xxx for it) that I was thinking about using the idea with. Didn't see a way I could monetize it though.

That's dope you saw some of my work before haha. You talking about feedoffrap? At one point a year ago we were getting like 50,000 to 60,000 a month when I use to go hard on the hamster, then they banned me from posting links and traffic plummented back down to like 10,000.

I'm actually remaking it to a web app, pretty much the hypem of rap. Here's a sneak peak. I already figured out how to scrape soundcloud mp3 and audiomack mp3s while parsings rss feeds.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrzwx4rtexsidh1/FOR-2082013.pdf

Oh and the wordpress backend is all css and some minimal js to rearrange some stuff...Here's a little analogy, it was like repainting a house and arranging the furniture differently as compared to knocking down the house and rebuilding it from the foundation.
 

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How does a docking station work if you're hooking it up to two ore more monitors? I've noticed a lot of the lighter/thinner laptops only have HDMI and no dvi/VGA. Is there a loss of quality with the docking station?

I went with the Lenovo p400(same specs as z400 but I didn't want to wait 4 weeks for lenovo's shipping) and upgraded to the 16gb of ram. The touch screen is really dope; I never got tablets because it's impossible to really search, type or fukk around without a keyboard; but this is the ultimate hybrid.

The docking station is crispy; all monitors are working flawlessly and look good. I guess I won't be returning anything anytime soon.

:win:
 

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It's all about budget. A better combo would be a $400-$500 laptop alongside with a $400 desktop if you are really trying to do work.

This man knows his stuff. Learned my lesson after my $1200 dollar macbook got a virus, than stolen:beli:
 
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