Category Archives: Apple

Building a Hackintoshed Netbook

Last weekend, my Thinkpad was having some trouble. Its battery was shot, the DVD drive was beginning to sound like a jet engine, and my hard drive was getting Disk I/O errors. In the weeks before that, I had started … Continue reading

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That's an expensive Kitty

Earlier today, I was talking with a friend about the differences between the Nvidia Geforce and Quadro lines of video cards.  In reality, there’s very little difference, aside from the drivers.  For example, my Quadro 570M is almost hardware-identical to … Continue reading

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More Frustrations

Trying again to deal with XPe only lead to more frustrations today.  I managed to get the virtual disk marked as bootable, and the virtual machine did start up, but then I was faced with another problem.  As is, the … Continue reading

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DO WANT

When the iPhone first came out, I had absolutely no interest in it.  It was expensive, locked in to a single network, and worst of all, did not allow for the development of third party apps. Today, however, I’m having … Continue reading

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The Fall of Apple

First off, to clarify: I don’t think Apple is going downhill as a company. In fact, there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. However, they’ve certainly fallen from their place as a “Do No Evil” company. I was all in … Continue reading

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The iPod that wouldn't die

It seems again that I’ve declared my iPod dead prematurely.  It just decided to boot up again for the first time since my last post.  As you can imagine, I’m very happy to have my little music player back, as … Continue reading

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RIP iPod: 2005-2007

Well, my iPod has kicked the bucket, and this time, I think it’s beyond my repair.  I had loaded Rockbox on it, and it wasn’t charging.  After it ran all the way down and powered off, it still wouldn’t charge, … Continue reading

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iPod Near-Disaster

Today, for the second time since I’ve had it, my iPod died. Trying to boot it first yielded a “sad face” iPod icon, and then didn’t do anything at all. It also wouldn’t mount on a computer, not even under … Continue reading

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Bypass the iTunes “5 connections per day” limit: Share your music with Firefly

On college campuses, sharing music using iTunes is becoming extremely popular. Ever since the 4.0 release of their iTunes music player, Apple has allowed its users to share music over a local network so that other users could listen to, … Continue reading

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Been a while…

It’s been a while since my last post, so while I’ve got some time to burn at 3am, I thought I’d type up a few of my reactions to some of the technology news as of late. The AMD/ATI merger … Continue reading

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