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Macbook Pro hard drive upgrade
In lieu of upgrading to one of the new Macbook pros that recently came out I opted for an upgrade of my existing notebook. I purchased a Hitachi 320GB 7200rpm drive and had it installed by Mac Fusion in Long Beach, CA. The Hitachi drives have had consistently great reviews and so far it has [...]
CVS Videocamera Hack Update
Here’s an update to what has proved to be one of the most popular items on the blog: my CVS Camera Hack post. I posted that almost exactly one year ago and I thought I’d do a quick update after actually using the camera in real life for a while.
First of all, the landscape of [...]
Beta test for financial planning site
I’m helping a friend launch a new financial planning website. You can register for the beta test at http://pennypuddle.com/signup.php and the first ~25 users will get a free financial plan prepared. If you’d like to test out the site without sharing your real financial information just register and make up some reasonable numbers. If [...]
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NY Times article re: Twitter, Facebook, and why bad tweets are OK
A good friend sent me a link to this New York Times article on social networking. While the focus is on Facebook and Twitter it’s broadly applicable across the myriad of similar sites and services. The piece refers to a social science concept called “ambient awareness”; it’s an interesting idea but I’m still going to [...]
More rumors about Apple’s fall lineup
CNN is re-posting details from an Apple Insider post about the upcoming changes to the MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and various other members of the Apple family. If the rumors are correct, one of my biggest compaints about the MacBook Pro has been addressed, i.e. the lack of a user-upgradable hard disk (I ran out of [...]
Ubiquity, a totally new web interface from Mozilla
In case you haven’t heard the buzz about Ubiquity yet, you might check it out and see what you think. It’s a new project from the Mozilla labs, and while it’s still in a prototype state it looks really intriguing. The project’s goal is to allow you to interact with the browser (and by extension [...]
Great news for Google Calendar users on Macs
Lifehacker is reporting that Google Calendar now supports CalDAV, allowing you to sync iCal with GCal. This was already possible, but only via paid 3rd party tools from what I could determine.
I really like Google Calendars, since it’s available online and lets you create multiple shared calendars. However, while it may be a bit old-school [...]
Wordpress 2.7 is hot off the press