Month: November 2009

Meant to post these first. Opening the box Carmel experiencing difficulty putting plug through hole Wireless mouse assembly A familiar face First phase complete

Curses! So many things I must think about before launching in to play with my toy. I started with the setup assistant. How easy

Buying a new Mac is good for the soul. It’s been seven years since I bought a new Mac. What a wonderful morning. I

There is a ton of speculation out there right now about a possible tablet/netbook/whatever you want to call it from Apple. I hope it

It’s been a while since I’ve lobbed some free software your way. Since we don’t have an installation video this week, I figured this

While we don’t have an instructional video for you this week, we’ve got something just as educational, if not as animated. Not resting after designing OWC’s new

Cloud computing gets lots of attention these days. Apps for word processing, image manipulation, easy website creation and publishing, but one that seems to

Sometimes, when I feel the urge to tinker, I poke around the various ‘resource bundles’ of applications on my Mac. Its not always a

David Pogue posted an article about the annoyance of the extra 15 second instructions on voice mail messages, and also all the long user

Remember spin art? want to draw with words? Check out this Bright Hub article on two iPod/iPhone apps that are just plain fun. http://www.brighthub.com/computing/mac-platform/articles/44517.aspx

NetNewsWire Lite used to be my favorite RSS reader. So much so that I payed for the full version. Of course, shortly after I

Did you turn off your iPhone? If you didn’t, is it dead yet? I didn’t think so. There is a lot of buzz on

Take Back the Beep Campaign Last week, in The Times and on my blog, I’ve been ranting about one particularly blatant money-grab by U.S.

APPLE FANS PREPARE FOR WAR WITH MAC VERSION OF WARHAMMER ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING Beta Version of Warhammer Online for Mac Available Now for

I like this. Not for the production value, but the fact that, by the sound of his voice, the reviewer is very young, probably

Apple’s iDisk app has finally been released. You need a MobileMe account to use it. It doesn’t look very special, but I downloaded it.

Right after we got our ’06 Mustang GT in late November, the Oregon weather had turned “Terminal Grey,” as I call it. That daily,