I've had success installing both CF-to-IDE adapters and 2.5" SSD-to-IDE drives in my older computers, but those only cover about ⅔ of my collection. The rest of my machines, Macs from the late '80s and early '90s, don't use IDE at all; they use SCSI – an older and more expensive interface. Replacing SCSI drives …
This is How I Feel About the iPhone 4s
I was going to write a big article about the hoopla around the iPhone 4s, but John Gruber beat me to it. I agree with him completely and I am one of those 3GS users to whom the 4s is a huge upgrade. I'm also a photographer and I appreciate all the work that Apple …
My iPhone 5
This was originally supposed to be a post about what new iPhone models I thought Apple would announce on Tuesday. I thought that they'd announce two models - a low-end model that looks like the iPhone 4 and a high-end model that had a new case design. Then I read John Gruber's thoughts in his …
Mac Museum
I got into Macs when I was in middle school typing class. We mostly had green-screened console-driven Apple IIs but there were also five graphical mouse-able Macs that we rotated through. The Macs were old even for that time, consisting mostly of Mac Classic, LC, and II models. Some were color, some were black and …
Aperture vs. Lightroom – An Easy Way to Confuse Myself
I take a lot of photos – or at least I want to take a lot of photos. I used to keep all of my photos in iPhoto, but once I started taking “professional” photos (with my SLR), I began to want to separate them from my “home” photos. I tried both Apple Aperture and Adobe …
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