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White Macbook just fine with us
In: Review
8 Jan 2009Folks 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 [...]
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- Tags: Amazon, apple
Silverlight, Bravo!
In: Geek Finds|Review
3 Nov 2008Not 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. [...]
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- Tags: mac, netflix, silverlight, windows
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 [...]
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- Tags: movie, sustainability
The Future of Food
22 Jun 2008This 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 [...]
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- Tags: movie, sustainability
Archive Entourage email?
21 Jun 2008We 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 [...]
Leopard review pt 3: Put a fork in it.
In: Review
3 Apr 2008Overdue 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 [...]
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- Tags: leopard, mac
Monster Outlets to Go 3
In: Geek Finds|Review
19 Jan 2008Until 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 [...]
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- Tags: power, travel
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 [...]
Leopord review pt 2: “Compliment Sandwich”
In: Review
6 Dec 2007Keeping 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 [...]
Leopard review: Part 1 of many
In: Review
23 Nov 2007As 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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