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 …
My New SSD
My next computer will be a MacBook Air, that I've already stated. When I talked about it last, I said that I'd keep using my MacBook Pro for the next couple of years and that my next upgrade would be to replace my hard drive with a much faster SSD. Well that day has come. …
Christmas 2012
Merry Christmas, the holidays are over! The big day has come and gone and it definitely felt as if our life was filled with a never-ending list of tasks and todos. We were lucky to start out the season pretty well by purchasing most of our gifts online. It made our house look like a …
Random Notes: Pre-Holiday Edition
It's been a little while since I posted about the boys. The holidays are here, works has ramped up, winter illnesses have started visiting us again, and sleeping has been a little bit more difficult. Luckily we are past most of that now so let's get to it! Not-So-Silent Nights Ever since the boys were …
Relatively Ambitious 