Category: Apple

  • Mighty mouse, today you are so…not mighty

    I’ve been loving Apple’s wireless keyboard and mouse that came with my 24″ iMac. Lean back in my chair, scrounge around the room, pick one up, put it down — never lost a connection. And they even work great to wake the iMac up from a snooze, which I had thought would be the Achilles…

  • He marched in the animals, two by two

    …And he called out as they came through Hey Lord, I’ve got green alligators and long-necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I’m so forlorn I just can’t find no unicorns. Ah, the Irish Rovers and The Unicorn Song. Brings back fond memories of rainy…

  • Tivo-Amazon link is cool but what’s the value?

    Amazon and Tivo unveiled their joint downloadable video service today. The basic concept is you purchase video content on Amazon’s Unbox service and it automatically downloads onto your home Tivo, where it appears on your “Now Playing” list alongside shows you recorded yourself. It’s obviously yet another way to get downloaded content from the Internet…

  • New 24″ iMac is mondo big & mondo cool

    I stealthily updated the “tools of my trade” page recently but in case you missed it, there’s a new leader of the (computer) pack around these parts. After going back and forth and back and forth for days, I decided that the future was a desktop and not a laptop. As my brother pointed out,…

  • A scanner, a keyboard and other Macworld goodies

    Continuing last year’s tradition, I’m listing a few things featured at the Macworld show in San Francisco that caught my attention. I didn’t attend so this is just stuff that I read about… First, solving an annoying shortcoming of most USB keyboards, Canadian peripheral maker Matias introduced some Mac keyboards with USB 2.0 ports. Most…

  • Phew, that’s a mighty back up

    The year is rapidly drawing to a close, prompting the usual rush to get those last tax deductions in order, clean out the closets and, of course, update my off-site back up. As I’ve mentioned before, I have a thing about backups after having experienced hefty data losses several times, including the time when my…

  • You don’t actually need an Expresscard/34

    There’s a great review over at Barefeats.com of Verizon’s new mobile broadband card (you know — the one that actually fits in the Macbook Pro’s Expresscard/34 slot). But the more interesting bit is that using a USB cable and a Motorola Razr phone, they were able to achieve the same broadband performance. You still need…

  • Getting ready to upgrade the Windows 2K box

    A little less than a year ago, I scrounged up some spare parts and built an AMD Sempron 64-based PC running Windows 2000. It used a bare bones case by MSI which was so loud and slouchy that I got sick of it. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve again searched high and low…

  • Screen size and battery life boost for iPods?

    I have to say that today’s Steve Jobs announcements left me less than thrilled. iPods didn’t get bigger screens, my main desire, and why would I pay for a cheesy, low resolution downloaded movie when I can buy a DVD for almost the same price and rip my own cheesy version? And iTV sounds great…

  • Finally, an EVDO card for Expresscard/34 slots

    After eight months of waiting and delays, Verizon Wireless has finally announced a new wireless broadband card that can fit in the bizarro world Expresscard/34 slot of the nearly-new Macbook Pro. The Novatel V640 will cost $180 with a “new” two-year agreement and $230 with a “new” one year agreement but no word in the…