Month: November 2006

(sorry, I seem to be blogging in pairs lately…) Last week I blogged about the fact that Monday Night Football has essentially moved to

“Police issued a statement Tuesday evening saying the suspicious package ‘has been identified as an electronic device commonly known as an iPod’…” http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6a11bd67-f717-4aa3-80a9-840c07949730&k=28503 I’d

Some batteries made by Sony turned out to have contamination problems, which can lead to shorts inside the battery. These shorts can cause over-heating

Okay, I read, yesterday, one, two, three articles about the “trouble with .mac” and while there’s much to agree with, I can’t say I’m

From Owen Rubin – San Francisco I have Comcast… Let me do my best “technical support” impersonation of Comcast: Hello, Comcast technical support? Hi,

(Because Tim made me do it…) On this week’s broadcast of iProng Radio, the official podcast of iProng.com, co-hosts Shelly Brisbin and Bill Palmer

I haven’t posted a 15 Tips article in a while, so I thought I’d contribute some tips for an application I use a couple

So, we’re going back to the Moon. By we, I mean humanity. The last time we were there was way back in 1972. Richard

I grabbed this photo off Engadget.com, simply to point out the differences between the Mac and the PC. No right-minded MacBook or PowerBook user

Will I live to be 90? I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I

Yes, another GRACK! Boy, howdy. This one’s so cool, I even got a compliment from Del Miller. If you don’t know that name, you

No, it is not October yet. Not Halloween either. Yet when I am done here, you will wish it was. Charley is my neighbor.

I’ve written before here about how HD-DVD may get the jump on Blu-Ray and win the format war. I’ve changed my mind. What got

Yes, my MacBook moos like a cow when it’s been sitting idling for an extended period of time. And so do a lot of

Apple Computer like virtually all computer manufacturers, depends on foreign manufacturing, particularly in the Far East, where labour is much cheaper. This is, of

The article description says it all. My beautiful new MacBook essentially died after about six weeks of heavy use, and now it’s on its

The fragile cease-fire in Lebanon seems to be holding. The Lebanese citizens driven from their homes are returning to see what is left of