Technology

Well, that was a fast way to spend $478! You won’t believe how long I agonized over what tires to buy. Then again, you might. The thing about pursuing the perfect car-nut tires when you’re living on the frontier is that one has to endure the cry of the Taos merchant: “We can order them [...]

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This is ostensibly a computer post, but hang in there. Yes, the topic has come up before. Forgive me. I’ve just been listening to Internet radio with an indispensible Mac app called RadioShift. It’s by the fine folks at Rogue Amoeba, and with a name like that, it has to be good or people will [...]

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This won’t make sense to the masses, ’cause it’s an inside joke in the Mac community. Knowing German makes me strain to understand the actual dialogue, which is pretty intense, and that kind of gets in the way of the comedy for me. But check it out in any case, and see further below for [...]

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It all started with a late evening email. Or maybe it started with the chair. I have a new one, you see. I’m sitting in it right now, and I don’t want to get up. (You can read more details here.) The office chair I’d picked up several years ago at a business moving sale [...]

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Have you ever had your computer shut down suddenly during a power outage and lose what you were working on? Or even worse, was there damage as a result? Well, I have the solution for you: the APC 750G 10-Outlet power-saving Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). This item is more than a surge protector: inside the [...]

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This is too good not to share, and besides, I need to try some new embed code. (This works extremely well in full-screen mode on a 24-inch iMac, I gotta say.) Behold, a silent wonder slipping through the sky:  

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I‘m still not sure what motivated me to do this, but I sure did it: I’m typing this now on a new 24″ iMac, and it’s pretty damn incredible. Right now I’m thinking, oh my God, it’s just too big! And maybe it is — after three years on a MacBook, this is like being [...]

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If they’d only had the printer I wanted, I’d have come home from Albuquerque with one of these! As some of you know, I’m posting this from an original MacBook (1.83 GHz, 2 MB RAM). For three years now I’ve been doing all my Web work on this laptop with its glossy 13″ screen. I [...]

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