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32/366 – Lookit, lookit, lookit!
February 1, 2012 – Oh yes, I am most definitely a fish nerd. A fellow in my volunteer group arrived last night and handed me this as a gift. Isn’t it just totally and wonderfully geeky? I love it! What a fabulous and totally unexpected gift!
Read more »Day 243 – Suffering
243/365 (August 31, 2011) – Did you know that if you hit the Fn+Command+left arrow keys all at the same time it takes you to the top of an open document in Word? I knew that, because I use a lot of key strokes rather than the mouse where possible, it’s faster. But I have been forced backwards in time…
Read more »Day 222 – Memory
222/365 (August 10, 2011) – The first computer I ever used didn’t have a hard drive, it had a cassette-deck attached to it. Then the big 8″ floppies floppies arrived, followed by 5-¼” and then 3-½” media. Zip drives, Jazz Drives, CDR’s CDRW’s, DVD’s DVDRW’s, and eventually flash drives. The first flash drive I used was 128MB and cost …a…
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…
Read more »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 »Day 270 – Wall-E Phone Home
270/365 (September 27, 2010) – I have a new toy, not Wall-E, he’s not new. I picked up a Snowflake microphone on sale at Future Shop that has all kinds of possibilities. All new MacBooks and all iMac computers have iSight cameras and microphones built into them, but the 30″ Cinema display on the MacPro doesn’t (well, the really newly…
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 »Day 90 – On Closer Inspection
90/365 (March 31, 2010) – I used to love my big tactile keyboards by Logitech. So I bought a Mac version when I got my MacPro. But when I got the MacBook I actually got used to the keyboard on it and suddenly the Logitech one felt clunky. Even though the Mac keyboard is wired (they do make a wireless…
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