February 12, 2008 – 6:28 pm
Among the other updates Apple has also released Apple TV Take 2 and it’s available for update through your Apple TV settings menu (or you can wait for it to happen automatically). I installed the update today. I took about two minutes to download and another five to do the actual installation.
There’s a new [...]
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January 24, 2008 – 1:52 am
When I rearranged my office recently my printer ended up about 8 feet from my computer and the cable was only 6 feet. USB cables were too expensive locally, close to thirty bucks for one long enough. So I ended up ordering a Belkin 16′ USB Cable for less than $8. Ok, they got [...]
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December 28, 2007 – 4:39 am
I was in Staples before Christmas and they had the Seagate FreeAgent Go external drives on sale. I’ve never bought a 2.5″ external drive before because of concerns over reliability. But at about fifty cents a gig and the small size I decided to get the 80GB version. The small size would make it easier [...]
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November 19, 2007 – 7:34 pm
Amazon announced their e-Book reader, called Kindle, today to much fanfare. I just don’t get it. To me, it seems like a solution in search of a problem.
I like gadgets as much as the next person, but if someone was to give me one of these I’m not sure I’d use it once the novelty [...]
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November 8, 2007 – 2:56 am
I recently fed my gadget habit by getting a Kingston Data Traveler Reader. It’s a combination of a 2GB USB drive and a memory card reader. It’s great to carry with a laptop so that digital pictures can be copied from a camera’s memory card to a laptop. The 2GB USB drive can also be [...]
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September 25, 2007 – 5:11 am
I needed a new USB keyboard for my iMac. Long story short - can’t boot from CD, alternate disk, or alternate partition with a wireless keyboard by holding the option or “c” keys. It’s a real pain to move a USB keyboard around and with Boot Camp being added to the iMac it was time [...]
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