I acquired a Snow iMac several years ago when someone found it at a store and picked it up for me. I already had a bunch of iMacs but not one in Apple's Snow color. I find Snow to be rather boring, but it's still an official color and it belongs in my collection. Mine …
Excited for iPhone 12
I'm really excited for the iPhone 12, which Apple will be announcing next Tuesday 10/13. It's been three years since I bought my iPhone X and I'm ready for the upgrade. This is the first time I've waited this long to buy a new phone. Despite its longer battery life and improved camera features I …
My Emulator Mac
I often refer to my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet as my "Bridge Mac" for my Mac Museum because it allows me to move data from my new Macs to my old ones. It does this because it can read Compact Flash cards through its PC Card slot, read CDs through its CD module, write floppy disks …
My Xserve (Early 2008)
Apple started building datacenter-ready machines back in 2002 with the release of the Xserve G4. The Xserve was designed as a 1U rack-mountable machine running Mac OS X Server. Over their lifespan they offered either 3 or 4 hot-swappable drives, two PCI or PCI Express expansion slots, a CD or DVD drive, slots for 2 …
Quick Thoughts From Apple’s Time Flies Event
These are just my thoughts about the products that Apple released today. If you want to know what they are, read this summary from Gizmodo. Apple revealed a few things today, some of which will be available as early as Friday, others that will be available later. There was the Apple Watch Series 6, the …
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The Story of My Titanic
It all started back in 2016 when I was staying in a hotel in Redmond, Washington. I was there on business working about 15 minutes away in Kirkland, on the outskirts of Seattle. I worked from Kirkland for two weeks, flew home for a weekend, then flew back. That left every other weekend on my …
Behind the Photo: Backlit Tulips
I was really into photography back in June. It was an opportunity to photograph lots of different things to break the monotony of being home. It was also summer, which is when I typically get re-interested in photography. I shot a bunch of tulips and I loved them, but it was toward the end of …
My Broken Keyboard Saga
I own a 2016 MacBook Pro with Apple's famous(ly unreliable) butterfly keyboard. It's fine to type on but is prone to failure, so much that I bought an extended warranty just to deal with it. Apple eventually opened a free repair keyboard program to repair them outside of warranty. Mine was humming along just fine …
My Recycled PC
I went to our local recycling center recently to drop off some wood that we couldn’t burn. I always like to stop at the electronics “trailer” where people dispose of TVs, microwaves, printers, and computers. I found a working Power Mac G4 Cube there several years ago so I know it can result in quality …
Nikon D100 Review
The D100 was Nikon's fourth digital SLR (after the D1, D1H, and D1X), but introduced its second DSLR body style. Released in 2002, It eschewed the extra battery grip and some of the extra buttons and connections from the D1 series for a more streamlined standard camera body. It cost $1,999 and was one of …
