Archives for “Computers”

The Parts of the Computer

While digging through some old papers, Annie found this set of pages she colored when she was in second grade in 1986. ...


Dad’s Got Them Trained

Those of you who serve as tech support for your families will appreciate this. Every now and then someone in the extended family will send ...


Apple’s Cooking Something

This is (currently) the splash image on apple.com. Should be interesting to see what they've got planned.


How to Make VirtualPC and Synergy Get Along

Recently, I installed VirtualPC on my XP box so that I could still test IE6 after installing IE7. However, I immediately ran into a problem. ...


As a web developer who prefers to use a Macintosh, I struggled to find the least painful way to test my work on a PC. ...


An Event Apart Seattle: The After-Party

After dropping off our laptops at the hotel, we headed to the after-party at the Alibi Bar in Pike Place Market, thrown by Blue Flavor. ...


An Event Apart Seattle: Liveblogging the Event!

We're here! It's 8:50, and the big screen is showing a slideshow of photos that they guys must have taken yesterday when they got into ...


Yesterday, Ryan and I got off the train in Seattle around 4pm. We caught a bus up to Hotel Andre, where we found we had ...


Akismet Stops Comment Spam

I've been seeing more and more of the blogs I read lately complaining about comment spam attacks. Having had a bit of experience with this ...


I just took a survey, and one of the questions it asked was: "In an average month, how many times do you access the Internet ...


Raise The Phoenix Shield!

Last night's episode of 24 was excellent, except for one geeky problem. They fell into the classic trap of getting too descriptive with their technology. ...


Net Neutrality

I'd seen the phrase "network neutrality" getting tossed around a bit, but wasn't sure what it was all about. I looked it up, and while ...


No Mac OS X For PCs

Would it be exciting if Steve Jobs were to stand up at his next keynote address and say, “We’ve decided to license Mac OS X ...


USB Memory Box

The USB Memory Box is part of a larger project called Universal Connections by Dialog05. It takes computer plugs like USB and Firewire cables, and ...


Icons and Windows

The icon-and-window style of interacting with files on a computer was developed frantically over two weeks during the initial development on the Apple Lisa, and ...


MacWorld 2006

Boy, the rumors were WAY off this year. As usual, the Apple community spent the months leading up to MacWorld 2006 making predictions about what ...


Howto: Search for This and not That using TextWrangler

I've been doing a ton of search-and-replace operations at my job lately, and one of the worst ones I did had to do with searching ...


At work lately, I've been using the column view in Finder on my Mac OS X laptop. I've never used it very much before, and ...


Greetings from Hawthorne!

I am blogging from the (empty) floor of my new apartment's living room! What's the best kind of bandwidth? Stolen, of course. Bless whichever of ...


Hand Me That Shotgun, Buddy

Man, since I ripped all my other CDs, my iPod has been SO much more interesting. Before, I had ripped about 2/3 of our collection, ...


Mac Mini

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD. Macintosh. G4. 1.25 GHz. $500. We're getting one for Annie when the money comes in. Hell, if I get this contract gig I'm bidding for, I ...


Adjusting

Ah, there's nothing like adjusting to a different computer. After a full year on the laptop, my body has adjusted to using different keys and ...


Bad Timing

My mac laptop appears to have just fried itself. I installed the latest security patch last night, and then today, after about two minutes of ...


This is the geekiest computer peripheral I have ever seen, and it's one I wanted to see when I was in high school, with all ...


Upgrade

Well, the upgrade seems to have gone smoothly. Too early to tell yet whether this will clear up my crashing issues, but I already feel ...