I was very happy with my Western Digital Studio II Drive so I bought a second one. This new one has been giving me trouble since I got it. For starters, it always shows the temperature condition as “Warm”. The drive is regularly missing from my desktop as it just shuts itself off.…
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No, it’s not 1988. I know my mac doesn’t really have a virus. Aside from the occasional email, I have not seen a virus on my Mac since System 7. So image my surprise that while Googling I came across a link that appeared to have the information that I was seeking.…
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When the iTunes music store first came out it was all too easy to drop 99¢ on a song. At least one reviewer dubbed it iCrack because of its addictive nature. Apple later brought that easy way to part with your money into the palm of your hand in your iPhone.…
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I’ve been looking forward to the new Terminator movie. I like the TV show. I even enjoyed Terminator 3. The new movie looked like just the next chapter in the story. The early trailers showed us little that we had not already seen in the future scenes for the last 25 years.…
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I got this email from MobileMe. It was a strange non-apology. It was a litany of all the things that they have been working on without any mention of the things that were promised but not yet delivered. This message appears to have been sent out to all MobileMe members.…
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The phone makers are happily creating app stores to supply their customers with 99¢ utilities. They are setting up huge infrastructures and developer programs to court both users and developers alike. The reason: they know that your investment in these 99¢ gems will insure your loyalty to their platform long after their 2-year contract has expired.…
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I have owned several iPods over the years. My first iPod was a blue iPod Mini. I bought it in the original Audible promotion to replace my Rio. The iPod Mini had a 4GB hard drive and an aluminum anodized case.…
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Armor is a another take on the future warrior story. It is similar to the novel Starship Troopers (not the movie) except that you really get inside the main character’s head. Felix throws himself into incredible nuke-wielding battles with aliens. The reader must pay attention as the perspective changes throughout the story.
I’m not really sure how I stumbled on to this book. I found it in paperback and read it years ago. I recently heard that they were going to make a movie out of it. I decided that I wanted to revisit this Hugo and Nebula Award winner.…
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Yesterday I was doing a search on Google for a person. One of the search results was a link for Facebook. When I clicked on the link I was take to a page that looked like Facebook but actually wasn’t. When I click again I was asked to login.…
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My installation of iLife ’09 went without a hitch. I backed up my library a couple of times and began. I have 30,000 pictures in my library. iPhoto quickly identified 69 locations from my iPhone pictures and is currently scanning my library for people’s faces.…
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I recently had the opportunity to write a quick command line application using Java. Instead of using Eclipse or BBEdit as by editor/IDE, I decided to use Xcode. I chose the Java Tool project template and got to work. In the course of my project, I wanted to spit some text out on the console.…
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