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7/366 – Geneology
January 7, 2012 – I don’t know why the Newton came up in conversation the other day, but it did. And it still lives in the bottom of a drawer, and with some fresh batteries…It is ALIVE! Everyone thought the iTouch was revolutionary, but most people never knew about this little wonder. The Apple Newton. Fabulous handwriting recognition that still…
Read more »Warranty woes with a cheap laptop
By SHELLEY WHITE – Globe and Mail Update Published Tuesday, May. 17, 2011 6:24AM EDT “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” The infamous words of Johnny Rotten, spoken at the end of the last Sid Vicious-era Sex Pistols show, in 1978, came to mind recently. The context was my laptop, a year-old machine that had left me feeling more…
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iDentify
MacUpdate introduced me to a fabulous little (free to very inexpensive) video tagging program. It’s wonderful. I have probably about 250 videos on a hard drive. Some have tags, most just have a file name that tells me what the video is. They are all accessible from the living room TV via Apple TV, either on its hard drive or…
Read more »Computer Choices – “Cost” Comparisons
I have been coaching a friend in her move to Mac recently. It’s new to her, and as a newb to the Mac, she is over-thinking things. I did the same. I was so used to struggling with Windows (not that I ever really realized it was a struggle, it was just normal) that when I got on the Mac…
Read more »Have I Mentioned….Oh Yes, Probably a Million Times
Yes, I know…we all know how much I love my Mac. I just realized that it has now been two years since I bought the MacPro desktop, and in January it will be two years that I’ve had my 13″ MacBook first generation unibody. And I haven’t looked back once with any regrets. The ONLY thing I need to pull…
Read more »Apple topples Microsoft’s throne
Darn, Kirk was right, we should have bought stock when it was only $80. I should have believed in the stock the same way I believe in the product. Reprinted from CNNMoney.com Microsoft’s dominance as the tech industry’s most valuable player has ended. On Wednesday, Apple’s market capitalization edged past its longtime rival’s as investors made official what consumers have…
Read more »Flickery
Found a great new program today, but only really useful if you are a Flickr user. It’s called flickery (nope, didn’t forget to capitalize that). flickery lets you upload photos into your Flickr photostream, but it does so much more! From within flickery on my desktop, I can: – view my contacts photos – view photos taken near me geographically…
Read more »Are Macs really cheaper to manage than PCs?
The following article is reprinted from CIO.com. Macs in the enterprise aren’t just cheaper to manage—they’re a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance. Keep in mind that Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who’ve bandied together to deploy and manage Macs in the enterprise. The group surveyed 260 IT…
Read more »Convert pdf to greyscale
Convert a color PDF to greyscale in Acrobat 9 This has been driving me mental. Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard I haven’t been able to figure out how to print a pdf so that it appears in greyscale. In other words, I want to strip colour out of the electronic document so it appears on the screen in pure…
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Why Computer Operating Systems Are Like Religion
I don’t really know what made me think of this the other day. I was wandering around the internet and reading some of Ann Coulters racist, bigoted, mean-spirited conservative writings. Why? Well, how can you argue against something the other side says if you don’t pay attention to it and try to understand it. It’s easy to blow something off…
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