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Vinyl Flashback
A number of years back I dug out all my old vinyl and with a ton of effort and time I managed to rip most of it into mp3 files on my PC. It involved rooting out our old turntable and connecting it in the living room, then running miles of RCA cable into the bedroom where the computer is…
Read more »I’m a Biker Chick Now!
Or, a scooter chick anyway. Or at least I will be in a couple of days when they have done the upgrades to it. But the bottom line is that I bought a scooter today. On the rainiest, wettest, coldest day in months. I didn’t test drive it, I didn’t really need to. And while I was shivering outside under…
Read more »Elgato’s Eye-TV and the Apple TV, makes the Mac my favourite PVR solution
Awhile back (Pre-Mac) we were in Future Shop and I saw someone buying something called “AirTunes” or something like that. Kirk sniffed at it and said wireless sound wasn’t any good. Oh how times change. Shortly after we bought the MacPro last year, Kirk delved into the Apple TV and started to change his mind a bit. On the PC…
Read more »Car Buying: Know When to Walk Away
I think my friendly local Toyota salesman and I were trying to wait each other out. He sent me an email on Friday that said he had someone else interested in the truck and I should come down and see him. I suppose that was designed to kick start me and make me pony up an extra $1100 for the…
Read more »Community Living
I believe it was Jack Nicholson in one of the Batman movies who said “Why can’t we all just get along?” Because we just can’t. Why? Because we come from different backgrounds, we have different languages, we have different expectations. And we don’t have each other’s playbooks. Living in a Strata complex is interesting, and it is a constant minefield…
Read more »Weather in iCal
Here’s something fun and useful, get your local weather forecast right in iCal. Nip over to Weather Underground and click on the map to find your local (or closest) city. Click on the link for your city of choice. This was neat for me since I had three choices, Vancouver (that’d be the airport I imagine), Vancouver Habour (closest to…
Read more »Beer Showers, Sippy Cups, and Canadian Hockey.
We went to a Canucks pre-season game last night (Thanks Web!) and I marveled yet again at a Canadian (I think) invention. I’m not really a major hockey fan, but Kirk keeps working on me and slowly but surely I am starting to get the rules and see the penalties as they happen instead of incessantly asking “What did he…
Read more »How to set up iChat to work with other Messenger Services
Want to set up iChat with an MSN Messenger account you already use? Here’s How! Copied from this Blog (TooneTown Blog: 10 steps to a multi-protocol iChat.) because I’m afraid it might disappear someday and I keep having to refer back to it from time to time… Upgrading to Snow Leopard broke things a bit but from other people’s comments…
Read more »Janitorial Services
Found a great new little Mac App recently. I think it’s fascinating that the Mac OS runs important cleanup services everyday at a specified time, somewhere around 3 am. That’s pretty cool to me. It brushes off it’s own cobwebs and tidies house while I sleep. This keeps things running smoothly. How cool is that? I pretty much leave the…
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