OpenEmu for Mac

OpenEmu is an emulator for the Mac that will allow you to play ROMs for any old game system that you want. This means that you can easily go back in time to any old game that you could possibly want to play. OpenEmu is really nice because you can have all of the old games you used to play in one place instead of having multiple emulators to play different ones. It also has easy functionality to save the state on any game or to put in cheat codes. This is because it is just a tab at the bottom of the screen that is easily accessed. It also makes it easy to load games into the emulator and even keeps track of the games. Reliving the experience of any old game is now easy to do on any Mac computer.

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EagleTec Mechanical Keyboard

I finally got my hands on a mechanical keyboard that has blue switches on it. Along with a nice blue backlight. I have only been using the keyboard for a little over a week now but I wouldn’t want to go back to my previous keyboard. I don’t really know what I have been doing all this time, or I guess I should say I don’t know what I was settling for before getting this keyboard. I really like these blue switches, even the noise they make and they do make a lot of noise with this keyboard. This is really not a work keyboard, unless you have your own office. They keys feel really nice and the top of the keyboard is made out of aluminum with a nice brushed finish it looks like. The bottom of the keyboard is made of a hard plastic that feels pretty durable. This keyboard only comes with two different backlight settings, which is static and breathing. It also has an easy option to shut off the backlight so it doesn’t bother you at night. It is also a cheap compared to a lot of mechanical keyboards at around $40, so you don’t go broke just for trying out a mechanical keyboard.

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Betterment: Is it right for you?

Betterment is an investing app that is all about hands off investing. Essentially you are able to set up a goal that you want to reach and then just deposit money into the account. It will give you an estimate in how much you need to put into the account in order to meet the goal that you have set. If you don’t have a specific goal then that is alright. You can use it as a savings account really, just because the savings accounts that banks offer have no real value anymore. The app allows you to even set up automatic deposits from a bank account, which means you really don’t have to think about saving money. I would suggest that whatever you plan on saving per month that you actually split that up into weekly deposits. One of the reasons for this is because it seems like Betterment doesn’t want to readjust your investments until you put more money into the account. This means if you do it weekly then it should keep adjusting the account in order to operate better. Also putting money in weekly usually means you will actually put in more money by the end of the year then if you did things monthly. I wouldn’t spend a lot of time at first looking at what the account is doing because nothing is really going to change until you have at least $1000 in the account. After that point you may want to start keeping an eye on the account, about once a month at most. Even then it won’t seem like to much money will be earned, but this account is for long-term savings really. Don’t bother trying to do short-term savings with this type of account. Overall Betterment does what it sets out to do and even though you won’t get crazy returns on your money it should at least be a better place to stick excess money then a savings account.

Do you have any experience with Betterment? Let us know in the comments.