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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently we created a new website for people with celiac disease, All About Celiac, using a content management system, and designed to act as a news aggregator for information about celiac disease, gluten-free recipes, and gluten free food shopping information. Today Apple has posted our latest widget designed to pull any of 6 RSS feeds [...]

Recently I received one of the new aluminum Apple keyboards. It is the full size version with the cluster and it connects via USB. I’ve never used a keyboard in my entire life that I liked more than I like this one. It is fantastic.
I find that I’m able to type faster [...]

One of the most successful of my various websites is one for people with celiac disease, the Sensible Celiac. In case you did not know, celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the small intestine when a person eats wheat, rye or barley. I’ve got it. [...]

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 [...]

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 for [...]

Having felt recently that my Dual 2GHz G5 Power Mac was getting a bit outmoded, I decided to invest in a machine that would be so fast it might outlast any other I could buy, so my attention turned naturally to the 3.0GHz 8-core Mac Pro, possibly the fastest desktop computer made today. Looking [...]

Wal*Mart has begun to offer music downloads, but if you are using Mac OS X you’ll have to downgrade to the world’s least secure operating system first.
Using either Camino or Safari, try accessing the music downloads page at WalMart.com, and you’ll get this idiotic error message.
“We’re sorry, your operating system is incompatible. To provide the [...]

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. [...]

My lovely new MacBook Pro arrived today, and I took some photos as I unpacked it and used Target Disk Mode to transfer files from my MacBook.
Later I installed Parallels and used Parallels Transporter to import my old Sony VAIO VGN-S170 Windows XP notebook. In the course of just a few hours I have a [...]

This morning I had an email from Apple informing me they had shipped my new MacBook Pro. Among the many new features in this notebook are

LED backlight display for lower power consumption and longer life
Santa Rosa chipset for fast 800MHz frontside bus
A 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
4MB of L2 cache memory shared between [...]