Okay, so I am a bit of a software snob. I can’t help it. I come from the “right before computers were cool” generation. My first experience with a computer was looking up the Dewey Decimal system on the library computer in High School. Then after flirting with a few PCs in the public lab while writing a few last minute papers for English Lit I moved on to my first Mac in the art lab. After that, there was only one true love in my life. The Apple! … [Read more...]
Quick tip – save your MacBook’s hard drive
October 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Recently I've gotten a couple of e-mails from folks that have had problems with hard drive failures in their MacBooks. While hard drive failures are a fact of life with nearly any computer it can be exacerbated in laptops and portable machines where the risk of drops while the drive is spinning is significantly higher.One of the features I really love about my MacBooks (both my original MacBook and my MacBook Pro) is how reliable the sleep function is; close the lid and the MacBook's screen goes … [Read more...]
Time Capsule creates a challenge
October 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I was thinking something was not right with my wife's MacBook. It wasn't because she was complaining about anything; to the contrary over the last week she didn't say anything about the machine. It was quiet. Too quiet.Last night while I was sitting down watching TV with Allison she finally let it out:"That new Mac is really slow. My Windows machine was faster."Wonderful I said to myself, let me see what's up. I grabbed her white MacBook and saw by the dock bar that she didn't have anything … [Read more...]
My wife and her switch to Mac
October 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I had anticipated that I would be writing a lot about my wife's experiences using her "new" MacBook. After all, it's been two weeks since I got her the machine, yet she has barely touched it by my standards. The reality is that computers are just not that important to her. She's an experienced teacher with 8 years at the same school under her belt and for the last two weeks has had to do little more than e-mail and web based activities from home. She averages just under an hour a day on the … [Read more...]
Playing with iPhone pictures – Juxtaposer
October 14, 2008 By 1 Comment
One of the cooler aspects of writing this blog has been the people that have come around to not only give advice but tell me about some of the cool stuff they are working on. Hendrik Kueck has been commenting on this blog for a long time now. Hendrik is a software developer and when he told me about an iPhone application he was working on I became very interested in checking it out.His product, Juxtaposer, is a fun little application for mashing two pictures together quickly and easily. Hendrik … [Read more...]
Complete Guide To The Nikon D300 By Thom Hogan
September 22, 2008 By 1 Comment
On User Manuals, Digital Books, Travel, The Importance of eBooks and The Foresight of Thom Hogan I like physical books. By that I mean I like a book I can hold in my hand, feel the texture, and maybe even revel in the smell of the paper and the ink. I like to consume well-done images that inspire or instruct. I like books that open themselves flat and allow me to look at them without having to hold down both sides of the tight binding of a signature in the book without being … [Read more...]
I Didn’t Write This….
September 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
the real credit for the content of this page is Mandarin Design. I copied and pasted all the example code onto this page. Inline Pull Quotes You don't have to define the pullquotes in the style sheet. The code is short and doesn't take the many keystrokes. It's just another paragraph in CSS. ...it depends on what we are highlighting or lowlighting... ...this will look like some of the pullquotes and styles we seeina magazinelayout... … [Read more...]
Apple Bans Digital Comic
September 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Is it a case of "think different- think just like us"? Murderdrome, first digital comic made especially for iPhone/iPod, has been banned from the iTunes App Store as inappropriate. Infurious Comics, the publishers of Murderdrome, are making a plea to Apple for the same age categories to their books/comic sections as in their games and music sections. "We have extensive support from the industry in this and would welcome a change in the current store in order to make sure that content is … [Read more...]
The role of Apple marketing in my switch
August 14, 2008 By 1 Comment
Just a few weeks ago I was contacted by Beth Bulik at Advertising Age to talk about my transition from Windows to Mac. We had a long ranging discussion about the merits of switching to Mac. This got me to thinking, what role has Apple's marketing played in my switch? How heavily was I influenced by the regular drumbeat of TV ads, online ads, store displays, etc.? Though I am an entrepreneur and business owner my marketing experience has been with smaller companies. I never had the budget to … [Read more...]
iPod Touch – upgrading to 2.0
August 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Since I got my iPod Touch last month it has quickly worked its way into my daily use. Though I still keep the iPod Nano around for running, the Touch is my preferred device for general entertainment and music listening, especially if I'm within reach of a WiFi point I can access. On Saturday I upgraded the software on it to 2.0 and downloaded a couple of the free applications from the iTunes store. I'll talk about the ones I like in a future post. Overall I do like the new software. The … [Read more...]
