It's the Blizzard of '13 people, watch out! Starting tomorrow morning, the East Coast is going to be pummeled with up to two feet of snow depending on how the storm moves. If it lives up to its reputation, this storm will be worse than the Blizzard of '77 which was New Hampshire's last mega-blizzard. …
Thoughts on Tech: Surface Pro
Microsoft is set to release its second tablet this weekend, Surface Pro, which attempts to be a "best of both worlds" tablet – a powerful computer that converts from tablet to laptop with the click of a keyboard. It sports an Intel Core i5 CPU, Intel HD 4000 graphics, 4 GB of RAM, and 64 …
The Mac Museum Officially Welcomes the 24" iMac
All of my Macs are technically part of the Mac Museum, but only the Macs that physically reside in it truly meet the criteria (i.e. are relatively old and no longer in active use). Thus it was an exciting/sad day a couple of weeks ago when Sally's 24" iMac moved down to the basement to join …
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I Love
when Zachary reads "Funny Farm" and points out every individual pig on the page – "its zee peeg, zee peeg, zee piig. peeg" when Adam walks into the office and requests that I play music on my Mac and dances to it when the boys point at a picture of a computer and say "Daddy" …
"iPhone Math"
Aside from not making a lot of sense since Apple just changed the screen size of the iPhone, this has to be one of the most horrible product names I've ever heard of, even if it's internal. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/20/apple-rumored-to-debut-4-8-inch-iphone-math-in-june/
One Man's Trash is Another Man's Addition to the Mac Museum
I look in a variety of places for additions to the Mac Museum – eBay, Craigslist, FreeCycle, other online venues, friends, yard sales, local thrift stores – but sometimes I find things in places I'd never think of, like the Dover Recycling Center. I went there yesterday to drop off a printer and a case …
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Thoughts on Tech – Ultra HD
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) recently finished up and one of the big topics this year was "Ultra HD" (formerly known as 4k) resolution for TVs. The big draw of Ultra HD is that it has four times the pixels of 1080p HD and is just that much more clear and amazing. Think of …
Taming Twins: A Break from Tech
I've made lots of tech posts lately, so now its back to the boys. They are the cutest mannerless children around. They both walk around as if they have every right to get into every item in their environment. Look interesting? Sure, just walk up to it and take it. They randomly open doors, look …
PowerBook Through the Years: The 5300 Series
It should have been famous because it was the first PowerPC PowerBook but the 5300 was instead famous for a string of manufacturing and quality issues that gave it one of the worst reputations of any Apple product. Despite its flaws it still made improvements over its predecessor in the form of larger screens with …
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Mac Plus Resurrection
Once upon a time I purchased a working original Macintosh and Mac Plus for the Mac Museum. They came with a large device that was said to be a "modem" but didn't have a phone jack on it. After being unable to figure out how to connect this odd device to a phone line, I …
Relatively Ambitious 