It’s been about two and a half years since I made the switch from being a dedicated Windows user to buying my first Mac. I have really enjoyed my MacBook and wanted to take a few moments to discuss some of the differences and similarities I’ve found with the Mac ownership experience, compared to my [...]
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Mac vs. PC :: Will my next computer be a Mac?
May 18th, 2009 4 Comments
Tags: Apple · apple vs. microsoft · Gadgets · Geeky · Hardware · Mac OS X · mac vs. pc · mac vs. windows · MacBook · Microsoft · os x · review · software · Technology · Windows
Replacing my MacBook’s Hard Drive
September 11th, 2008 4 Comments
What do you do when you get sick of choosing between whether you have easy access to either your 35 GB music collection or your 60 GB photo collection? Buy more storage. I decided it was finally time to put a new larger hard drive in my Mac Book. The unit is nearly two years [...]
Tags: Apple · DIY · Gadgets · Geek Projects · MacBook
iPhone 3G Jailbroken — Ha!
July 21st, 2008 1 Comment
Well that didn’t take long. In a short post titled “Thanks for waiting ” released yesterday, the iPhone Dev Team released Pwnage 2.0 for jailbreaking iPhones running the iPhone firmware version 2.0. It should be noted that this doesn’t unlock your iPhone, it only opens up all the things that the old Jailbreak used to [...]
New Desk – Recycling for Geeks
July 8th, 2008 7 Comments
Getting organized… setting up your geek space. These are things that some of us find very scary propositions. My physical life has always been something of an organized mess. Recently I made (or was suggested to make) a drastic change in the way that my office was laid out (read: it was time to clean [...]
Tags: Gadgets · Geeky · Hardware · Miscellany · Technology
Hardy for the Home – Part One: Gearing Up
June 25th, 2008 No Comments
One of the projects that’s kept me busy for the past couple of months (30 minutes at a time…) has been the realization of my home server strategy. I’ve decided to start a multi-part series on both the hardware and software setup that I’ve chosen and will link to some key resources for anyone who [...]
Tags: Gadgets · Geeky · Hardware · Open Source · Technology · Ubuntu