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The Apple TV is not a hobby, the Apple TV is a victim
In: Technology
24 Feb 2010 Being an owner of an AppleTV, I have a few points to make in response to Tim Cook’s comment about the Apple TV being a hobby for Apple.
Apple is pretty good at making good software. Apple is also pretty good at making deals with media companies. The only problem is that Apple is really [...]
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What should an e-book cost?
In: Technology
8 Feb 2010When you take a look at the best-seller list, there are some interesting things to be seen as we are on the brink of an all out e-book price war. Let’s take the 5 top sellers and compare the price of the physical book and the price of the Kindle edition.
Title
Book*
Kindle
Diff.
A Patriot’s History of the [...]
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- Tags: e-Book, eBook, iPad, Kindle
File Insurance or Offsite Backup
In: Technology
8 Feb 2010You don’t think of it, you don’t want to. I have hundreds of gigs of data on my network at home. I am double and triple backed up with most things, but only among computers that are here. I would rather not even jinx myself by saying “What if I had a house fire?” So [...]
I have officially dumped Live Mesh for Dropbox
In: Technology
7 Feb 2010Friday we had a nice lunch in the Office building at the Redmond Microsoft campus and afterwards we checked out some competitive demos. One of the products we were shown was Dropbox. I have been an animated supporter of Windows Live Mesh for quite awhile, but while I loved the functionality, and the freeness, [...]
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- Tags: Dropbox, Live Mesh
How to cheat the single monitor limit on a Spyder2express monitor calibrator on OS X
In: Technology
31 Jan 2010When I purchased the Spyder2express, I managed to miss that it didn’t work with multiple monitors. At the time I was only calibrating an iMac so it didn’t really matter, but when I upgraded, I resigned to only calibrate the main monitor. Recently I came across this little trick to easily calibrate multiple monitors [...]
I am not sure what the logic for labeling them “for 2009 Mac Pros” is, but after searching the entire depths of the internet, I finally found someone who had tried it, and not only found out that it works in an early 2008 Mac Pro, but it works perfectly beside the ATI Radeon HD [...]
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- Tags: Mac Pro, Video Card
Oh EU, DOJ, turn your Mordor like gaze to Mr. Jobs.
In: Technology
28 Jan 2010I only hope it happens soon. I think I will actually take the day off of work, plop my feet up on the ottoman, eat Popcorn and watch Steve Jobs give his dry jabs and pokes at a panel. My only question is will he have the balls to show up to a senate [...]
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- Tags: Antitrust, Apple, iPad
Wow, not loving the iPad makes me Anti-Apple apparently
In: Technology
27 Jan 2010First let me clarify a few things. I intend to buy a 32GB Wi-Fi+3G iPad. I am an undying gadget freak and it’s cool enough to warrant some plastic-rash. Let me also add that in the last decade I have owned:
12” Powerbook
15” Powerbook
G4 PowerMac
Dual G5 PowerMac
15” Macbook Pro
24” iMac [...]
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- Tags: Apple, iPad
Oh Linux Fanboys, why must ye tempt me so?
In: Technology
29 Dec 2009Anandtech was nice enough to put out an article giving you the latest on running Major Release Windows games in Linux. The article goes into great detail about the various software packages you can use to run Windows games. It pits a monster Intel i7 overclocked to 3.97Ghz, 6GB of PC3 12800 ram, two 74GB [...]
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- Tags: Gaming, Linux
Apple Automator For the Win!
In: Technology
13 Dec 2009One drawback of not getting an HP Home Server is that it doesn’t do Apple Time Machine compatible backups, so my Macs don’t automatically back up. Most of what I do on my Mac is web based or using applications that are working with files already stored on my network.
The big exception to that is [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Automator, Mac
Windows Home Server and the Linux Debate?
In: Technology
12 Dec 2009I would like to thank Paul Murphy for his comment on my recent Windows Home Server post. It was interesting enough that I thought it warranted stepping into the dark and nefarious world of “The Linux Debate” for a little real world comparison. The comment to “Thoughts on Windows Home Server” goes like this:
Nice article [...]
Thoughts on Windows Home Server
In: Technology
9 Dec 2009This week I was lucky enough to acquire a brand new Acer h340 Windows Home Server at a great price. I quickly got it home and set it up and so far I am pretty impressed. I thought I would share my ideas here for those of you who are thinking about taking the [...]
Top 10 Reasons I don’t “Get” Google Chrome OS
In: Technology
19 Nov 2009Microsoft Office – Sure web apps are cool, the Google docs apps are neat, and the new Microsoft Office Web Apps are super cool, but who can do all of their work with that alone? I have great access to Web Outlook, but Outlook itself is much better. Excel in thin is cool, but I [...]
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Adventures in Installing Google’s Chrome OS
In: Technology
19 Nov 2009I am going to try something new. I have some Buckethead music glaring, a whole season of My Name is Earl just came in on DVD, and I have some spare cycles to burn. What does that mean for you? It means I am going to go through these instructions and try to install [...]
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- Tags: Chrome OS, Google, Linux, Ubuntu
Install Windows 7 on it
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- Tags: Hackintosh, Snow Leopard, Windows 7
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- The Apple TV is not a hobby, the Apple TV is a victim
- What should an e-book cost?
- File Insurance or Offsite Backup
- I have officially dumped Live Mesh for Dropbox
- How to cheat the single monitor limit on a Spyder2express monitor calibrator on OS X
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- Oh EU, DOJ, turn your Mordor like gaze to Mr. Jobs.
- Wow, not loving the iPad makes me Anti-Apple apparently
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