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Folks have asked us whether we recommend the new aluminum Macbooks vs the good ol’ white MacBook that we’ve purchased regularly now for the last couple of years. At this point we still lean towards the white MacBook. The specs are good. The price is right. We recently bought a replacement laptop for the Roadhouse [...]

Not a single XBox owner in the crowd. Silverlight, Micrsoft’s media delivery platform now used by Netflix, is a win for both Macs and PCs. Macs, you can now Watch Instantly.  Welcome to the club.  High-fives from the PCs. Windows users, things just got better.  The annoying media acquisition & digital rights prompts are gone.  [...]

King Corn

In: Food|Review

14 Aug 2008

I watched another food-focused documentary this past weeked called King Corn.  It’s the story of two friends from Boston who decide to grow one acre of corn in Greene, Iowa and follow it from seed to plate.  They quickly realize farming isn’t as romantic as they had thought, learning the sad irony that a farmer [...]

The Future of Food

In: Food|Review

22 Jun 2008

This weekend I watched The Future of Food, a documentary about genetically modified/engineered foods. The synopsis from the film’s website describes it best: …an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade…The health implications, government policies and push [...]

We ran into an issue with a user who’s Exchange mailbox had grown to a size that was very large, too large in fact. We needed to find a way to shrink it and usually this means to archive a significant portion of the messages. But as we were about to find out, this wasn’t [...]

Overdue post… I’ve been using 10.5 since it came out in November. In that time there have been 2 major (10.5.x) updates and handfuls of software, firmware, and security updates, all of which have steadied the ship (sorry to mix metaphors). Some have criticized, some are still complaining. But guess what? *ding!* It’s ready. Serve [...]

Until recently I would end up in travel situations, that were otherwise going along swimmingly, sitting in frustration in a hotel room, or a friend’s guest room, trying to figure out where to plug in my various electronic gear to charge. Then I spotted one of these mini power strips from Monster called Outlets To [...]

Helvetica

In: Review

31 Dec 2007

After our last IT dinner, we all watched Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica. A film about a font sounds like a real snore, but it is surprisingly enjoyable, told with ease and fluid coherence. Hustwit interviewed graphic designers from around the world who tell of the font’s Swiss origins, its early implementation, the revolt again its [...]

Keeping it short and sweet this time: + is good, – is…not so good. [+]The Dictionary application has been improved (Yates, this one’s for you). The Dictionary interface has been updated with tabs for searching dictionary, thesaurus, Apple.com, and…Wikipedia! Now you can get correct spellings, definitions and all the encyclopedic information you’ve ever wanted in [...]

As promised IT is giving a review of the latest release of OS X, 10.5 aka Leopard. Here’s my (very) rough take on a couple of favorite features, in no order whatsoever. First, the Look & Feel. Aesthetically Leopard is very pleasing, but not radically different from the previous version. There are some variations on [...]


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