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67/366 – Cult of Mac!
March 7, 2012 – Today was an Apple Event Day. Always highly secretive, and there is always huge speculation about what will be released when an event is called. No major surprises today, the new Apple TV and the new iPad were launched. Is Apple/Mac really a cult? A quick search finds that a cult does not have to be…
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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 »Day 278 – R.I.P. Steve
278/365 – (Oct 5, 2011) _ Today is a sad day. I was out seining salmon on a river in Chilliwack all day and arrived home to hear the news that the world of technology lost a creative mind. Sadly, Steve Jobs lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at age 56 today. The Cult of Mac has lost its leader.…
Read more »Day 263 – Peripheral Vision
236/365 (Sept 20, 2011) – It’s been three months at my new job now. The Federal Government is not “Mac-Friendly” and when I first arrived with my MacBook in tow the admin for the program was adamant that the machine could not stay. Guess what…it’s still there…she’s not though She retired after my second week and I just quietly kept…
Read more »Day 259 – Tunes in my pocket
259/365 (Sept 16, 2011) – Isn’t technology amazing? When I was a kid, headphones used to look like construction ear-muffs and the only way to take your music with you (before the invention of the Walkman) was by carrying your ghetto-blaster. Now headphones wrap up to the size of a matchbook and you can carry 50,000 songs with you in…
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 225 – Addiction
225/365 (August 13, 2011) – OK, to qualify, this isn’t ALL mine. In fact, I’m the one who first adopted Mac, and now Kirk officially has more Apple products than I do. I have the early 2008 MacPro desktop, a first gen aluminum MacBook Pro, and an iPhone 3Gs. Kirk has an aluminum 2nd gen MacBook Pro, an iPad 2,…
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 »Day 126 – Quiet Nights
126/365 (May 6, 2011) – The weather was horrible today, and I had to go out and do a lot of running around…. on my scooter.
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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…
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