October 8, 2009 – 10:00 AM
It’s just come to my attention that it’s now fairly trivial to split a drive into two differently formatted partitions, one of which could be used for the Mac while the other could be used for Windows. This is not necessarily new, but there are a number of things that make it of particular interest [...]
October 2, 2009 – 10:00 AM
It’s been widely reported that the Image Capture app in Snow Leopard can now see and scan from many common scanners. This is a huge boon to those of us who are sick and tired of crappy scanner drivers and software. Image Capture is quite a capable scanner app, and fairly Mac-like. But there’s another, [...]
September 28, 2009 – 10:00 AM
Recently a friend was commenting on how much he enjoyed his 802.11n wireless speeds, and with the arrival of my new MacBook Pro I realized I was finally in a position to take advantage of those speeds. I resolved to buy an 802.11n Airport Base Station. However, upon further examination of my existing Airport network, [...]
September 21, 2009 – 10:00 AM
One of the touted features of the 3.0 iPhone upgrade was the addition of landscape mode throughout most Apple applications. Initially this sounded like quite a boon. Until I realized: I never use landscape mode, I don’t like landscape mode, landscape mode is always activating when I don’t want it to and there’s no way [...]
September 20, 2009 – 10:00 AM
Let’s face it, my data is everywhere. I have drives all over the place for various and sundry purposes. Some are full. Some aren’t. I also have a folder for things I plan on trashing eventually, when I need to reclaim some space, but want to keep around just in case, called TrashMe. And I [...]
September 18, 2009 – 10:00 AM
I’ve often heard tales involving the removal of a Mac’s battery — the little, round, watch-style one that makes sure the machine remembers what time it is, among other things — from the motherboard for a half an hour as a solution to various power issues, but it’s never been effective for me. Until recently, [...]
September 17, 2009 – 10:00 AM
So that’s what this is all about! I grabbed this screen shot a while ago when I updated to iPhone OS 3.1. I do that sometimes. See something that strikes me as odd and get a screen shot of it, just in case. Today I just happened to stumble upon some info that explains the [...]
September 10, 2009 – 7:59 PM
Just a note to say that my MacBook Pro arrived yesterday (Sep 9). I’ve not had a chance to play much with it beyond transferring my data, but I’ll be sure to report on it as soon as I can. Also, today (Sep 10) my Snow Leopard Box Set — which I pre-ordered from Amazon [...]
September 2, 2009 – 12:27 PM
So last night, on an impulse, I went for it. Of course, by “on an impulse” I mean “sight-unseen after the requisite three weeks of obsessing,” and by “I went for it” I mean, “I ordered my MacBook Pro.” What I finally decided on was the 17″ model with the anti-glare screen and the 7200 [...]
August 31, 2009 – 9:59 AM
It occurs to me that the themes of the last two posts will likely soon converge. When I buy my new MacBook Pro it will come with Snow Leopard, thus negating much need for pre-ordering the beast at all, which I’ve spent the last two weeks obsessively worrying over. And, speaking of, pre-ordering, while I’m [...]