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As a computer nerd who has been born again in the spirit of high technology it is natural and normal that I would wish to geek out at every opportunity. I also love digital photography. Recently I bought a GPS trip navigator for our pickup truck. It did not take very long before I put [...]

Roxio. What are they all about? Toast 9 is a very good program, it does succeed at burning discs. I hardly ever use it anymore since USB thumb drives are so fast, huge, and universally supported these days. But every year when I do my taxes I always print the returns to a PDF file [...]

I recently bought the HDHomeRun network HDTV tuner made by Silicon Dust. This product has two HDTV tuners onboard, each is capable of receiving QAM unencrypted cable TV high definition channels or ATSC broadcast high definition channels. I have one tuner connected to our local CATV and the other to an indoor HDTV antenna. The [...]

For the last ten years of my career in corporate America I used Adobe nee Macromedia Dreamweaver for a living. It sucked. There is not a webserver with enough storage capacity for me to list all of the things I hate about Dreamweaver, but I knew how to use it, and the support it offered [...]

Macs Are Great! has tested the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card, a truly unique concept that brings 2012 technology to the 2007 holiday shopping season. This ordinary sized SD memory card contains a wi-fi chipset. After using your Mac or PC to configure it with the details of your open, WEP, or WPA protected wireless network, [...]

For years we have been using SuperDuper to create bootable clone backups of all of our Macs. Each Mac has its own external hard drive reserved for backups, and in the event of a massive failure we can be back up and running quickly. The author of SuperDuper is hard at work on a Leopard [...]

I’ve been anxiously awaiting Leopard, and over the weekend I upgraded 3 of my computers, a 20″ CoreDuo iMac, a 2.2GHz Macbook Pro, and my super mega 8-core Mac Pro. Each upgrade went very smoothly, and so far I have not found any installed applications that no longer work. I was looking forward to using [...]

In response to user feedback received in email, we have designed and programmed a pair of simple Automator scripts into a package we call JPEG Consolidator. There are two versions, one will copy all of the files it finds, and the other will move files. By default these scripts will search a specified path recursively [...]

Sling Media produces a line of Slingbox products that accept video input to a proprietary codec with a UDP video server you can access across your home LAN, or with reduced quality from anywhere, using their Slingplayer client program. Of course you need to open a port in your firewall to access Slingbox remotely. The [...]

Although I’ve never regretted switching from MS Wormware to OS X a few years ago, there are a few things that bother me about life in the Mac world. One of them is the reliability and speed of the Apple default web browser, Safari. I keep about 6 or 7 browser windows open all of [...]

I ended up ordering the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium upgrade (for Mac) instead of the Web Standard Upgrade. This decision was based on the fact that the Premium version includes Photoshop and costs only $100 more. I have installed the software on both my PowerMac Dual G5 and my Intel iMac, Adobe allows [...]

Adobe will be releasing their Creative Suite 3 on April 20. I’ve spent some time in the last few days trying to figure out which update, if any, I should buy. I’m leaning toward the Web Standard CS3 Upgrade, for Mac of course. I do own Photoshop too, but i do not use it much. [...]

I own registered copies of both Adobe’s recently released Lightroom and Apple Aperture version 1.5. After using Lightroom for a week or so, I find that I like it much more than Aperture, and it also seems to be a superior tool for working with photos. The user interface for Aperture is butt-ugly, dreadful, very [...]

Besides having Parallels Desktop for Mac on my Intel iMac, I also have an installation of Windows XP created using Apple’s Boot Camp. Because of the famously draconian software validation practices used by the Evil Empire, I’ve only been able to use my Windows XP installation via Boot Camp. I’ve been using Windows 2000 up [...]