Tag: hardware
Daily Random Sh*t: Drobo Death
Damn, my old Drobo FireWire/USB backup drive died today. Anticipating my summer travels, I had...
Read MoreTweaking Tech & The How Much Is Your Time Worth
I have a co-worker whom I tease endlessly because when he switched from iPhone to a Samsung phone,...
Read MoreMoving Media Around the House
By definition, this is a “first world” problem. In the news gap between CES and the Apple event next week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I might manage my media collections between all of my computers. The...
Read MoreInteractive IKEA Catalog – Apple iPad?
Apple reserved presentation space for the end of January and the rumor mills is cranking up around...
Read MoreWeak – Laptop Hunter Picks PC for Video Editing
Come on, Microsoft. Clearly you’ve forgotten one of the first tenets of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, To not attack the enemy where they’re strongest, but where they are weakest. You had a good foothold emphasizing...
Read MoreTeleport & Share-screen for Ultimate MacGeek Control Out of the Office
Sitting in my dining area I want more screen real-estate and want to control my iTunes playing on...
Read MoreThe Quest for the Perfect Laptop Bag
You can tell I’ve just gotten back from traveling because I seem to find myself on laptop bag websites trying to figure out what is going to work best for my next flight (in two weeks!). When I switched up from my little...
Read MoreSmaller but Available Everywhere: more DIY Netbook Thoughts
Clearly I have small netbooks on the brain. After writing the DIY blog entry I found the following entry about how to do “netbooks” with something like an iPhone that I wrote on my flight a week ago to LA: Just spent...
Read MoreDIY Mac Netbooks?
While every mac-fan podcaster I know continues to pine away for Apple to introduce a low-cost...
Read MoreThe Lie of the 4th Screen
The following video was brought to my attention by a coworker as we both love watching stuff being presented at the TED conference. Alas, this video continues what I believe is a false cultural perception about the increasing...
Read MoreMy Year with the OLPC – NR4PT
Around this time last year I was very excited to receive my OLPC (One Laptop per Child), called the XO-1. Having drunk the Negroponte gatorade I was endlessly frustrated with Dvorak and other tech journalists who kept their...
Read MoreShuffling Three Monitors
I love screen real estate. Duh. Like many other things there is no such thing as too much screen...
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