Whatever's tugging at my brain handles
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Stupid Thoughts, Techno Thoughts on Sep 26th, 2007
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Brad: Thank you for calling ACME Weapons Systems tech support. My name is Brad, [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Jan 11th, 2007
The day after Apple unveiled its iPhone, Cisco filed a trademark infringement lawsuit.
Cisco has owned the trademark on "iPhone" since 2000 when it acquired another company that filed the trademark in 1996, 2 years before Apple publicly got on the "i" bandwagon with the release of the iMac.
Apple calls Cisco's lawsuit "silly". They [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Jan 9th, 2007
So, my 120 Gig LaCie Rugged All Terrain Hard Drive arrived today. It was a bit cold off the UPS truck, so I gave it a few minutes to warm to room temperature and then plugged it into my MacBook Pro via the FireWire 800 port with the included cable.
Let me just say first [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Jan 4th, 2007
One of the "next on my list" peripherals for my MacBook Pro has been an external hard drive. I have one, but it's AC powered and I wanted a bus powered one for travel and ease of use.
After a lot of looking around and reading reviews, I settled on the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Dec 20th, 2006
It's easy to get into a Mac Vs. Windows argument when discussing certain features of OSX. It seems that, in the head of would-be Mac defenders, Apple can do no wrong.
The odd thing is that any former Windows user who voluntarily switched to Mac has already admitted that they consider Mac superior to Windows [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Dec 5th, 2006
What is it with Apple? They want to be taken seriously as a machine for professionals. They even go so far as to brand one of their lines of laptops as "Pro" (MacBook Pro), and then they ignore one of the most important tools for a pro laptop... a docking station or port [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Dec 1st, 2006
My cell phone contract is up next year, and though it's still a few months away, I've been looking at phones and services.
I'm currently a Cingular customer, and when I upgrade, I was thinking of getting a phone that can double as a modem for my laptop. Thinking Cingular only offered their GPRS/EDGE network [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gizmos, Techno Thoughts on Nov 25th, 2006
I was over at my friend Leo's web site where he answers tech questions. In an article about malfunctioning keyboards, I found a link to an article he wrote about the Dvorak keyboard layout, and in the related links on that, he linked to my friend Randy's Dvorak keyboard primer.
Now I am a very [...]