The OS Quest — A Frustrating Journey

Google Wants Our Photos In The Cloud

December 11, 2009

Google currently has a deal going that offers a free Eye-Fi card when you lease 200GB of storage for them for a year. When I first saw it it seemed like a pretty good deal, and I hate to pass up a good deal. But it’s less of a deal if I don’t really need [...]

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 3

November 25, 2009

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 was released Tuesday and I’ve applied the upgrade. While I didn’t have any serious problems it didn’t go exactly as planned. Just problems enough to cause some momentary heart palpitations.

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The OS Quest Trail Log #45: Windows 7 Unleashed Edition

October 25, 2009

Microsoft seems to have found it’s pot of gold with the release of Windows 7. It seems to be getting universally positive reviews. My experience with it is still that it just works, which is what I want from an operating system. After all, let’s face it – all it is is an OS. Amazon [...]

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Microsoft Kills the Sidekick

October 12, 2009

This story has been kicking around a couple of days – T-Mobile Sidekick users appear to have lost all their personal data. Sidekick is a Microsoft product (through Danger, which they bought) and the data is on their servers, not T-Mobile’s.
Now the rumor of choice is that it was a failed SAN upgrade and Microsoft [...]

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Reviewing My Backup Strategy

October 11, 2009

The days of using a few floppy disks to backup important files are long gone. In going through my website I realized that the information about my backup strategy was a bit dated and didn’t reflect how I do things. Going through everything in order to write this article would also help me be sure [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #44: Long Overdue Edition

October 4, 2009

Egads! It’s been over 2 months since the last trail log. I also came across an old comment where I’d being doing the trail logs weekly. A week, two months, barely a difference. Unfortunately the real world has been intruding on the quest more than I’d like so while there have been a lot of [...]

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iTunes 9 Post Updated

September 17, 2009

I updated my post about my video sync problems with iTunes 9. I have a work-around for my video sync issues.

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iTunes 9 Brings Apple TV Problems [Updated]

September 14, 2009

I held off installing iTunes 9 since I figured it would bring problems. There were major changes to the UI, but even more of a potential problem is the switch (or at least greater use of) from Cocoa to Webkit which has been reported by some people.
But with my new iPod Touch on its [...]

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Apple Marketing Gets Me Again

September 14, 2009

I have to give Apple credit, they do a great job of segmenting their products into different price points and feature sets. Despite being one of the people saying no one needs that much space for music when the original iPods were announced I eventually bought one, which was my first Apple product. I’ve [...]

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Now You Can Install Snow Leopard – It’s Finished

September 10, 2009

Apple released OS X 10.6.1 today, updating the code they burned to DVD a couple of months ago and unleashed Aug 28th. I upgraded my iMac the weekend it was released but normally I would have waited a bit. But since I already had iMac issues I wanted to do a clean install with the [...]

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WordPress – The Windows of the Internet

September 7, 2009

It’s been widely reported that sites running the standalone version of WordPress are under “attack” and vulnerabilities are being exploited to insert malicious code into the site. I couldn’t help but notice similarities to Microsoft Windows.
While WordPress may not have the same market share as Windows it does have greater mindshare than any other single [...]

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