So I am a slacker. I pre-ordered the Apple TV as soon as I could, and I was one of the first to get one shipped, but we’ve been so busy that it sat in it’s shrink wrap until this morning. I finally pulled it out and hooked it up. It’s the first HD content […]
Wow, it’s been years since I was in Upstate New York during a snowstorm, but that is being changed right now. Mom has her RoadRunner broadband connection now (an amazing Wave Comm contractor came out in the middle of the blizzard and hooked up her connection, even had to climb the pole outside, though we […]
Erci was experimenting with Delicious Library on her MacBook laptop. Previously I felt that the built-in camera on MacBooks and iMacs was a silly and frivolous toy useful for very little. I have to revise that opinion now, because it turns out you can hold DVD, Book, and CD UPC bar-codes in front of the […]
After checking to be sure our trusty old Sony KV-40XBR800 could handle the output of the new Apple TV (it does, though with conversion from 720p or 480p to 1080i), I went ahead and ordered a new Apple TV so I can play Rocketboom and Terra: The Nature of Our World HD videos on our […]
Gah, I find myself once again dipping a toe into the murky waters that make up the Windows(tm) experience. I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate that I have not had to touch any MicroSoft crap for many years now… but I inherited an old Compaq desktop and my boss suggested we put XP on it so […]
Before you start that spam-bot, before you hire someone to put your advert-flyer under my windshield wiper, before you send misleading links to your gambling/porn/drug business to my web log, before you send me an instant message; please try to think this through. Just think for a second what you would do if you were […]
Thank goodness for Mike Bombich and CarbonCopyCloner (CCC) for Mac OSX. I use CCC and an external, firewire drive to routinely backup my machines and I am very grateful for that habit today. We had a 20 second power hit at work and my G5’s main drive crashed… hard. Unable to repair disk using Disk […]
I am very excited about the new, fully Aqua enabled, NeoOffice coming soon. This is a Java-free (in other words: it may actually work reliably, use little memory, and be fast) completely open source solution to the ongoing problem of reading proprietary/non-standard file formats (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint) that people insist on sending […]
There is a very interesting (to Apple desktop computer users and geeks) article on Ars Technica with some pretty educated conjecture about what Apple’s next desktop computer(s) may look like. The article is by Eric Bangeman, and I find myself mostly in agreement with his conjecture, albeit reluctantly. While I think his prediction is spot […]
There’s quite a lot of confusion over the issues of “Net Neutrality” versus “Hands Off The Internet” on the talk shows, news blogs, and a very confused mainstream media. Part of the problem is that both camps have chosen extremely poor names for their own causes. In case anyone is wondering I am wholeheartedly endorsing […]
