As I’ve said in many past posts, I’ve become primarily a Mac user. However, I’m not one of those snobby Mac users that must only buy Apple products. I’m someone who likes to get value for my money where I can. So when I needed a larger monitor for my new Mac Pro (this was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
TIVO Support – Fixing Channel Guide Info
I have a Tivo Series 3 and a Tivo HD. On both of my systems, I was seeing channels that had a number in front of them (i.e. “1 Womens HD”). Any of these channels that had a number in front of them had no channel guide information and just stated “To Be Announced”.
I sent [...]
Snow Leopard – First Impressions
I received Snow Leopard yesterday. We currently have 5 Macs. I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro (15″). Each of the boys have an iMac. And lastly, I have a MacMini connected to our Home Theater setup where we can replay movies that are on a very large Drobo with 4 drives that [...]
T-Mobile Customer Support Rocks!
A few days ago, Kathy and I went to a local T-Mobile store to look at the new MyTouch 3G which we had seen via a friend (who actually works at T-Mobile). We wanted to play with it a bit longer and really explore the keyboard, browser and ask a few questions around synching.
We had [...]
Wordpress 2.7
Wordpress is the blogging software I use on this blog. They have done a major rework of the management interface and some other bugs, features, tuning work.
The UI is pretty good. I’ve been running it since RC1 and it’s stable and has some nifty features. If you are a blogger, I’d recommend [...]
Wordpress on iPod Touch
I am trying the new Wordpress application for the iPod Touch/iPhone. It as simple to set up. The keyboard makes it hard enough that I am not likely to post very often.
Vista and Fusion
I’ve just setup up a new virtual machine under VMWare’s Fusion. Since Kathy has been having good luck with Vista, I decided to take the plunge too and used Vista SP1 for this new virtual machine.
My purpose for this installation is to run a few simple programs that I have yet to shed myself [...]
Wordpress Upgrade
Upgraded both my blog and our Family Twitter blog to the latest Wordpress release which is version 2.6.
I immediately had a problem with a plugin (WP-DowloadManager from GamerZ). After going to the plugin site which had a discussion forum, they had already found out that WP 2.6 is now using the same function name [...]
Apple’s iPod Touch and Mobile Me
Like many users of an iPod Touch (or iPhone though I don’t have one of those – because of AT&T) and Mac computers, I’ve been waiting for some updates.
For the Mac computers, we’ve been waiting for Mobile Me updates which will allow for push updates of mail, calendar, contacts across multiple computers and updated iPod [...]
Pixar doesn’t care about Copyrights
What a great post that Crunchgear made regarding how Pixar violated copyright law.
Apparently, they don’t respect the current copyright laws and are, by example, telling us to not respect the laws either. Maybe we should re-write the existing laws so they work in today’s world to increase content creation rather than limit it.
The Pixar [...]
Browser News: Download Firefox 3 Today
At 10am (PST), Mozilla (makers of Firefox) is asking it’s existing and new users to help it with a challenge.
Their challenge is to establish a new world record for the most downloads of something for the internet in a single day. Since it’s a new record, anything measurable establishes the record but they [...]
Wordpress Upgrade – Feed (Atom, RSS) Breaks
BIG ISSUE for feed subscribers.
I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1 and it broke all my links to the various Wordpress Feeds (Atom, RSS, RSS2). I am still researching this and trying to find a way to fix it for those who won’t be back here (like my Mom) but I am not [...]
Mac Mini
A few days ago, I bought a new Mac Mini (it will be quite upsetting if Apple suddenly, in the next 2 weeks or so comes out with a new version!) for my kids to use.
Mitchell has been primarily using my old Powerbook so he’s already familiar with OS X and likes it [...]
Our Family Twitter
Ok, this isn’t exactly Twitter but I’m going to keep calling it that because at this point I’m not signing up for it. I’ve instead set up a separate Wordpress blog with the Prologue theme so that my family can have a very personal twitter like interaction.
I’ve mentioned this in a past post. [...]
Themes
I tried a new theme today but I’ve since taken it down. My problem with some themes is that I like the basics but the authors do such a great job at putting technology into them that they make it hard for people like me to come along and customize them a bit more.
The [...]