computers

Moving Your iTunes Library to an External Drive on an Airport Basestation

8 September 2010

If you have a laptop one of the big problems is that there never seems to be enough room on the hard drive for all your stuff. Movies and music for itunes can end up taking a huge amount of space. Moving your iTunes library to an external drive is a good solution but then [...]

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How To Setup an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station with a Time Machine Disk

27 August 2010

There are 2 kinds of computer users: those who have lost data because of a hard drive crash and those who will. I haven’t used a film camera in a decade. Keeping my precious photos of my child and other important documents is getting to be a big deal.
Apple has made it very easy to keep [...]

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How to Solve the iTunes Slow Download Problem

4 March 2010

I love my iPod touch, it’s an amazing tool. I can surf the web, read email, read ebooks, read pdfs, listen to music, audiobooks and podcasts, and watch movies and TV shows. You can even go to iTunesU and watch courses from schools and universities from around the country. Its also a great place to [...]

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The iPad Will Change Something

28 January 2010

There are a lot of nerds complaining about what the iPad can’t do, and while those things are true they also don’t seem to have anything to do with reality.
It doesn’t have a camera: Fine by me. I’ve got a camera on my phone on my laptop and guess what my camera is a camera [...]

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“1984″ goes down the Memory Hole

18 July 2009

Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com: “This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.”
Irony, thy name is Amazon right now. [...]

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Raph’s Website Embed virtual worlds anywhere

30 June 2009

Raph’s Website Embed virtual worlds anywhere: “We’ve released a feature that I personally think is highly significant for both Metaplace and for virtual worlds in general. As of now, you can embed a virtual world on pretty much any webpage, just like any other widget.”
I had the craziest thought, or may just a little [...]

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Rocks Don’t Need to Be Backed Up

28 March 2009

Rocks Don't Need to Be Backed Up: “As we stood wondering at this archaeological marvel, my wife, ever mindful of how I spend the bulk of my time, blurted out, ‘Rocks do not need backing up!’”
Well, that is not quite correct. I’ve been to Egypt and there is a lot of sand there and there [...]

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