Quick tip - save your MacBook’s hard drive
October 25, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
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.
Time Capsule creates a challenge
October 23, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
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.
My wife and her switch to Mac
October 15, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
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 machine right now.
Playing with iPhone pictures - Juxtaposer
October 14, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
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.
Buying a refurbished MacBook for my wife
September 25, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
Ah, the sound of a delivery truck in front of the house is always a welcome sound for a gear-head like me. I’ve gotten to the point where I can distinguish between UPS and FedEx by the squeal their brakes make. After a 1 day delay because I left the house for 15 minutes yesterday and that happened to be the window for the FedEx Ground guy, I had to wait an extra day to actually get my wife’s new MacBook in hand.
Complete Guide To The Nikon D300 By Thom Hogan
September 22, 2008 by Dr. Michael N. Roach
Filed under Books, Digital Lifestyles, Photography, Software, Top
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 afraid that the book would snap closed if I turned lose with one or both hands.
But then I have to say that there is a “but” that goes with all of that. The bigger a book gets the less likely I am to have it along when I want it. Big books in heavy bindings don’t fit easily into the weight requirements of modern-day air travel. They’re, well, “big” and “big” and “ease of travel” are oxymorons. They just don’t work interchangeably. Read more
Buy my wife a MacBook now or wait?
August 27, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
Okay, here’s the deal: my wife’s birthday is at the end of September. Since getting her an iPhone 3 weeks ago she’s completely fallen for the thing and is now ready to accept a new Mac as a replacement for her rapidly dying Windows XP laptop. The Windows laptop she uses is running painfully slowly and needs a full reformat and reinstall. Since I’m now heavy into Macs I’d rather not deal with it anymore so the time has come.
