A notebook of various projects.
In the move from the old Mac Book Pro to the new Mac Book Pro, the Firewire 400 port was eliminated as part of the normal technology progress of Apple products. This creates the problem of having two Firewire 400 external hard drives I use for music files that I can’t plug into the new [...]
My work computer was switched yesterday. The Mac Book Pro 17 inch was replaced with a Mac Book Pro 15 inch. The new one is current MBP specs; 4 G RAM, Intel i5 chip running at 2.4 GHz, 500 G hard drive, “matte” LCD/PED display. The old one was backlit LCD, Intel 1.8 GHz Duo [...]
PC Mag reviews the new 15 inch Mac Book Pro. Tremendous specs, but at a premium price point as expected. Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Thunderbolt) Review & Rating | PCMag.com.
My Mac Book Pro is coming up on three years old, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was not holding as long a charge as it used to. This is not foreign territory for laptop users; battery chemistry degrades over time and you don’t notice it until it drops to 80% or [...]
Recent disasters and recovery of a failed video chip on a Mac Book Pro restore my faith in regular backups and leave me impressed with Apple Care. This is a quick accounting of events and resolution.
The little weekend project last week was in the pile of electronics we now call a “TV”. Tivo has replaced the need for the VCR. iPod has replaced the need for the jukebox. The new TV has aboiut 5 signal inputs, so running everything to the receiver first seemed silly. It seemed like time to [...]
Product: Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1 TB External Hard Drive Link: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=357 I’ve outpaced what I can back up on my original Accodata 160 G external Firewire drive, and went looking for a replacement. I didn’t have a specific brand or model I was looking for since the Accodata drive, which I had [...]
A review of the Logitech MX 1000 Laser Mouse, for OS X.
It’s best to avoid reading about upcoming computer products after you made a purchase… Think Secret – Revealed: New Power Mac G5, iMac G5, eMac Specs
Some more details… This site (and some others here) are powered by the wonderful WordPress “blog” content management tools. The site is currently powered by Red Hat-Apache-PHP-MySQL (the “LAMP” approach), and WordPress is an obvious selection with this framework. I’ve tried a bunch, and even use Blogger and some other things, but I want to [...]
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