Reason #2 Why Windows is Wonderful

Drive letters assigned to hard disks, floppies, thumb drives and network shares are ancient technology and we need to preserve the past at all costs.
The confusion that drive letters cause help keep IT support people employed. Please, for our sakes, don’t get a Mac! The economy would crash due to massive unemployment.
It’s also good that [...]

Reason #1 Windows is Wonderful

Daily warnings that “Your computer might be at risk”. This is good, because you need to know that in the 10 seconds your computer has been running, your anti-virus software hasn’t had time to update its definitions.

The Browser Wars Continue

Firefox 3.5 is to be released tomorrow morning Pacific time. You can check here for the news. Since I last mentioned Firefox, Safari 4 has been released as well as Internet Explorer 8. Safari 4 stills seems buggy to me. Frequently when I launch it, it just hangs. I changed the home page from Apple’s [...]

Blu-ray Titles

It’s been interesting to watch the new titles arrive in blu-ray disk format. As I said earlier, I’m not in a rush to replace my DVDs, but for posterity’s sake, there are a few that I’m ready to replace.
One is The Right Stuff. I’ve owned every home video release of this classic movie. There was [...]

Wireless Gigabit Networking?

I ran across this article on Ars Technica concerning wireless gigabit networking. It seems at present that we can’t get these fast network speeds to go through walls. You may be happy with your wireless G (802.11g) with it’s 54 Mb/s speeds which is still faster than your internet connection. But what about moving files [...]

Mac and Right Click

MacHaters, Get over it!
I read a lot of PC vs. Mac stuff in my travels and one thing that comes up time and again from PC nuts is that there is no right click on a Mac. Yes, I said “PC nuts”. Remember how people used to like Macs and hate Mac people? They’re just [...]

Mac Home Media Center, Part 3

Last Friday, I received my new 320 GB hard drive and Elgato EyeTV 250 and installed them. As an aside, replacing the hard drive in a Mac Mini is not for the timid. You might do better to add a Firewire or USB 2.0 external drive. I’d recommend Firewire. The EyeTV installation was a cake [...]

Mac Home Media Center, Part 2

In my last post, I was setting up a new media center computer on my recently acquired Mac Mini. Currently, it is up and running with Front Row accessing all media in iTunes including movies, TV shows and of course music. The next step was to view streaming media from web resources like Netflix and [...]

Mac Home Media Center

The Mac OS boots up nicely and Front Row really makes my DVDs, downloaded TV shows and video podcasts look marvelous. Oh, and it’s actually a decent computer too that displays very well on a 1080p TV.

Blu-Ray vs. DVD

When you buy your new HDTV, you must at least get a new DVD player that has an HDMI port if you’re not ready to get a new Blu-Ray player.