Remember the ads for Kindergarten Cop? Kids pointing at Arnold’s oversized biceps and he exclaiming, “It’s not a tumor!” That’s what keeps going through my head, only instead of Arnold’s muscles it’s an iPad. And it’s my face superimposed onto his body saying, over and over, in my best faux Austrian accent, “It’s not a [...]
I got a Magic Mouse for Christmas, and I like it a lot better than I thought I would. When first hearing about it, I thought the Magic Mouse sounded amazing, like a combination of the best features of a mouse and a trackpad (yes, I’m addicted to two-finger scrolling) without the mechanical deficiencies of [...]
My recent Archives article was met with some controversy and debate, which is great. I love controversy and debate, and a terrific discussion ensued. That discussion has led me to think a bit harder on my archive plan, and I’d like to follow up on the matter with some of the specifics of said plan, [...]
I recently switched from an 8-core Mac Pro desktop system to a new 17″ MacBook Pro and I’m loving it. Video Toe-To-Toe Against the Mac Pro My first concern making this switch was, would the MacBook Pro offer enough power to get my toughest work done. The answer so far has been yes. Though I’ve [...]
I have no time to write right now, but I just had to acknowledge a couple of the new Apple products quietly released yesterday. First off, for the server nerds in the house, Apple now officially sanctions using Minis as workgroup servers. We’ve all been doing this for a while now, of course, so it’s [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]