Category Archives: Apple

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – The Upgrade

Posted on September 3, 2009 by alan

As always I have three backups of critical data ( in different locations). I also make a drive copy, using SuperDuper, before I start an OS upgrade. It’s a good thing I did. The upgrade of the iMac went smoothly. … Continue reading →

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Colloquy for the iPhone

Posted on January 22, 2009 by alan

The best IRC client for OS X just became officially available for the iPhone. Mobile Colloquy has been available through the jailbreak, but now it’s in the App Store. I’ve played with it a little and I already love it.

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OS X 10.5.6 – mail crash

Posted on December 15, 2008 by alan

The Mail app update in 10.5.6 is crashing for a lot of people. In my case it was the GPGMail plugin. If you are running plugins with mail, you’ll probably need to update them. If you are running gpg with … Continue reading →

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Parallels 4 – Beware the VM conversion

Posted on November 12, 2008 by alan

Make sure you have a backup of your VM before you let Parallels start the conversion from version 3 to version 4.   The conversion of my Win2K VM went well.  The conversion of the WInXP VM crashed and when … Continue reading →

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iPhone Shot Timer

Posted on November 10, 2008 by alan

Surefire has put a shot timer iPhone app up on the iTunes App store. Features include sensitivity adjustment, par time and it will email you the results. Finally I can put guns and iPhone categories on the same post.   … Continue reading →

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Mini Geekette – Her First Notebook

Posted on November 8, 2008 by alan

It’s an Apple Macbook Pro of course. The Monkey has had an iMac for a couple of years, but lately she’s been asking for a notebook.  She wanted to be able to have a computer with her when she travels. … Continue reading →

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Like I said – AT&T's 3G coverage sucks.

Posted on July 15, 2008 by alan

Imagine that: People are reporting that AT&T’s 3G service is slow even where coverage is supposed to be good. Like I said, AT&T 3G service is NOT a good enough reason to buy a new iPhone if you already have … Continue reading →

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In Apple's Defense

Posted on July 11, 2008 by alan

There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth on teh Interwebz over Apple’s (or AT&T’s) 3G iPhone activation problems. Yes, Apple should have expected a large number of activation attempts today.  Yes, they could have built a system that could … Continue reading →

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iPhone 2.0 OS instability

Posted on July 11, 2008 by alan

Uh, Mr. Jobs? Steve, can I call you Steve? This new iPhone 2.0 OS is kinda unstable. In fact, my iPhone is locking up and restarting itself more often than Windows ME. I mean, I never had a problem with … Continue reading →

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Apple's Mobile Me – Off to a shaky start.

Posted on July 11, 2008 by alan

After a couple of days of outages, Apple’s Mobile Me, or me.com while technically up, is so slow that it’s unusable. A major complaint of the 3G iPhone has been the activation process, with in store times running from 20 … Continue reading →

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