The "New" iPad was announced a week ago yesterday. While it looks essentially the same as the iPad 2, it boasts a significantly better screen, an improved camera, improved graphics and performance, and 4G LTE networking. It ships in the same capacities and configurations as before – 16, 32, or 64 GB and WiFi only …
Destroy Zombie iCloud Bookmarks for Good
I have a bunch of Apple products so I was really excited when Apple introduced iCloud with Safari bookmarking. It allows me to sync my bookmarks between my two Macs (running a total of three installations of Mac OS X), iPhone, and iPad. Each time I make changes to my bookmarks on one device it …
The Boys Are a Riot
The boys are a riot and here's why: Zach loves to be chased – he'll crawl as fast as he can for a few steps then turn around to make sure you're still following him. Then he'll keep going. Adam loves to make monster noises, almost like a zombie. Zach knocks down anything that is …
Taming Twins: 10 Things I Learned this Week
You can get poop on your couch. Adam likes to agitate Zach by poking him in the face. Zach does not like being agitated or poked in the face. Milk makes Adam cranky (er). Zach has a temper. Do not engage it. Going outside make the whole family feel better. Walkers make a good bulldozer. Zach …
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Google Play
Google announced its music store, Google Music, in November 2011. It is similar to the iTunes store, except it also allows you to stream your purchased music online and even upload your own music to stream as well (like Amazon Cloud Player). At the time I wasn’t interested because the pricing was similar to the …
New Web Server
One of the consequences of Sally getting a new Mac is that her old Mac is now available. While it may be six years old, it's still newer and faster than the PowerBook G4 that I've been using as a web server. It has about 3x the processing power, twice the memory, more storage, and …
The "New" iPad
After months of rumors and speculation, Apple announced the iPad 3, formally referred to as "The New iPad", to the world. Most of the functionality had been rumored previously, which makes the update somehow boring and unimpressive to many technology pundits who have absolutely terrible track records predicting anything that Apple does. The new iPad is …
My 100th Post & Sally's New Computer
What better way to celebrate my 100th post (that's 100 posts in the two years since I switched to WordPress ~ 4 posts a month) than to announce the purchase of Sally's new computer, an "Early 2011" 13" MacBook Pro! It took a lot of convincing but I finally wore her down with specs, comparisons, …
Tax Season
We love tax season. Common myth would have us believe that nobody likes to fill out their taxes and nobody does it until the last minute. That may be true for some people – maybe they have complex finances that take a lot of effort to file, maybe they owe, or maybe they just hate filling out …
Mac Museum Latest Additions
PowerBook 540c & Accessories The PowerBook 5oo series was released in 1994 to replace the 100 series introduced in 1991. It was the first redesign of the PowerBook since the introduction of the Duo line in 1992. The series consisted of two models – the 520 and 540. Each included a Motorola 68040 processor (think …
Relatively Ambitious 