Anyone who uses a Mac and surfs the web is aware of a pretty serious and annoying problem:
Whether you use an ancient iMac or a new MacBook Pro, if you visit sites that use Flash your CPU usage will spike, your fans will spin like a turboprop, and (if using a laptop) your crotch will [...]
Our house was built before the widespread deployment of cable TV. When cable finally arrived here (i’m guessing sometime in the late 70’s), the house’s previous owners just took a drill to strategic portions of the exterior and ran the cables straight into the rooms where they wanted service.
Unfortunately, they only ran the lines into [...]
It’s been a bit over 2 years since I’ve moved to a MacBook Pro as my primary ‘desktop’ machine. Overall it’s been a positive experience.
OS X has been a bit less stable for me than Linux, but a whole heck of a lot better than any version of Windows. It can run Adobe’s apps [...]
How pathetic is it that the highlight of my week was the news that Netflix and TiVo were teaming up to enable TiVo users to watch movies streamed from Netflix?
I will never leave my bed again.
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I think Meredith’s previous post about productivity gimmicks was right on the money. Strolling though the aisles at Staples I see so many devices and notions to help people organize, I can’t help but wonder if people ever get real work done.
My own system for keeping organized has evolved over the past couple of [...]
(originally run in 2005… The tech has changed, the principles are the same )
I’d mentioned in a previous story that i’ve set out on the horrid task of digitizing about 5,000 – 6,000 of my family’s 35mm slides, dating from the early 1960s until the present day.
I want to free all our old [...]
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