There is a famous story about pianist extraordinaire Art Tatum that has made the rounds for years. Fats Waller was playing a gig at some club in New York. He stopped upon seeing someone enter the club. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Waller said. “I can play piano, but God has just entered the room.” The one Waller called “God” was Art Tatum.
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Gene Puerling died a few weeks ago at age 78, and sadly, most obituary editors of newspapers around the nation chose to ignore this
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George Van Eps with his original Epiphone Deluxe 7-string guitar One of my all-time favorite guitarists is the late George Van Eps (1913-1998). Van
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I have a little problem, partly of my own making. My department creates product manuals for consumer products that have custom keyboards and LCD
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My siblings and I spent several weeks with our sister and brother, Jan and Art, in McLean, VA, every summer. On one of these
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Most summers, I travel up to the mid-Atlantic states to see many of my siblings, who are clustered in the Washington D.C. area. I
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This is an unsolicited endorsement–it just worked out that I used a MyMac advertiser’s products to satisfy a need. I just wanted to share
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MyMac Magazine’s own John Nemo asked me to blog about this insane topic… Why am I still in S. Florida? Beats the c**p out
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I’ve been watching the portable Mac announcement saga on Engadget (refresh…refresh…refresh…etc.) for the last few minutes. Some neat new stuff coming out. The best
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I haven’t done one of these in a while, and I have a few days off from work, so what better time to catch
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I’ve been involved in genealogy for the last 20 years or so, and have performed extensive research on my branch of the Rhode Island-based
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This book replaced Taylor’s Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages book as my primary HTML reference at home and at the office. It’s well worth the 45 dollar price-tag. I can only find fault with the fact that it doesn’t have enough chunks of sample HTML and illustrations of how the HTML will render.
Most of you probably have at least one person in your extended families trying to find out more about their ancestors so they can share that information with the rest of their family, and if they are doing their work on the Macintosh, MacFamilyTree could be just the product for them.
After my disappointing experience with a NAS I tested a few weeks ago, I was really looking forward to evaluating this unit. To recap, a network attached storage (NAS) device is a shared disk drive that uses your internal network, or in some cases the internet to share data with multiple computers. It’s a great place to store backups, large media files (such as for home theater systems), archived multimedia projects, or anything else that requires larger than average amounts of storage space.
This book does a great job demystifying the techniques of creating attractive documents with InDesign using content encoded in XML. It starts with the most basic definition of XML, with many examples of source code.
Larry looks at the printed catalog of the contents of the Adobe Font Folio CD, and definitive reference guide to Adobe font technology. Is it worth owning at $45? Read the review to find out.
The idea is that a NAS device securely sits out on your network and makes itself available to anyone authorized to use the network. Typical applications for a NAS include a central backup system, iTunes server, movie server, shared file server, and so on. This is a file server (and more) for the rest of us…or is it? Keep reading.
Sitting on his bully pulpit, PBS’s technodarling Robert X. Cringely has made the prediction that Steve Jobs will be announcing that Apple will be
Read MoreI am reminded of the amusing video of Steve Ballmer of Microsoft pacing back and forth across the stage at a big Microsoft developer’s
Read MoreDay two of Macworld Expo started off with the MyMac.com team feeling a tad left out with the media pass situation, but that’s been
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