Category: Pursuits

  • How to delete the horrid sparsebundle from your Time Capsule

    Short version: Here’s how to actually delete a sparsebundle Time Machine backup file from a Time Capsule — use Windows. Long version: We have an Apple Time Capsule here at home and it’s almost always been an incredibly great wifi router with built in storage. The kids, especially, benefit from having all of their laptop…

  • Finally, serious Lightroom photo syncing on the iPad – no iPhoto required

    Old workflow for getting cool pictures I’ve taken from my camera to my iPad: Import photos into Adobe Lightroom. Throw out junk, make fixes, sort and rate. Choose photos I want on my iPad and export to a folder on my hard drive. Drag said folder into iPhoto. Make newly imported photos into a new…

  • Androids and apples among the sci-fi

    It’s amazing, or maybe it’s not amazing at all, how quickly people jump to conclusions about your motives after you write a blog post they don’t like. There were actually commenters recently who thought I was picking on Apple because I obviously hated the company and loved Android. How did they know? They saw the…

  • A Casual Vacancy, a serious rip off?

    There’s a bit of a surprise in store for you if you go to buy the electronic book version of the new J.K. Rowling novel, “A Casual Vacancy.” Despite it’s best-seller status, the ebook’s price is not $9.99 or $12.99 or even the high-end of best-sellers brought to you by the price fixing cabal of…

  • History will show journalists missed the big Amazon story today: ebook discounting is back

    There were a gazillion Amazon headlines today across virtually every news site, tech blog and twitter feed I follow but almost none had the truly important news development about Amazon today. While everyone was gorging on the announcement of upgraded “Kindle Fire” tablet computers, U.S. federal judge Denise Cote in New York approved a controversial…

  • Reality Bites: DOJ takes down Apple, publishers ebook defenses

    Since the Department of Justice stood up for fans of digital books a few months ago and sued the major publishers and Apple over their 2010 conspiracy to raise prices, the amount of whining, spin and flat out lies emanating from some of the publishers and Apple has been both impressive and depressing. That so…

  • Android Android amongst the scifi

    New header image today — it’s the Android Android cookie jar that sits amongst my scifi collection.

  • The great Google storage price hike of 2012

    (I wrote an updated discussion of online storage prices on December 18, 2012) The other day, I finally saw a unicorn crossing my lawn — no, not quite. Another almost as mythical a creature appeared on my computer, however: the Google Drive. It’s a long-rumored online storage space for any kind of digital files that…

  • Phone to Desktop Computing, Nexus style

    I got a little excited by some recent experiments of folks hooking their Galaxy Nexus phones to desktop computer set-ups: big monitor, speakers, full keyboard and track pad. Pretty sure that within a few years, we’ll have just one computing device in a phone form factor that can hook up to different size screens and…

  • A blog about technology and other things I’m interested in

    Post my experiment with running a daily link bog over at The Orange View, I’m going to re-position Gravitational Pull again, back towards a broader focus than just gadget and software reviews. In that spirit, I’ve changed the tag line to  “A blog about technology and other things I’m interested in,” which is both accurate…