Archive for the Computers category

Firefox Download Day

Well for those how haven’t been paying attention, today Mozilla released FireFox version 3. As part of the release of the new version they are trying to break the record for total number of copies downloaded in a single day. For your download to count you must get it by 11:16 PDT or 18:16 UTC [...]

XP given the Ax

Well Micosoft is giving their best selling operating system ever the Ax. As of June 30th large PC makers will no longer be able to sell Windows XP machines. Retailers will also have only until their current supply is exhausted to sell boxed copies of the operating system. But there are still ways to get [...]

Firefox 3 release Announcement.

The the folks over at Mozilla have announced that the new version of the the Firefox browser will be coming out next Tuesday the 17th of June. As part of the release of the new browser Mozilla is attempting to the break the Guinness World Record for most downloads in a day, over a million [...]

Das New iPhone

Well all the Apple rumors were true. Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone today. The new iPhone is 3G and included a real GPS unit and with the new 2.0 software suite 3rd party apps will now be available without having to hack the phone. With the new phone also comes new pricing a 8gig [...]

Mac Vs PC MST3K Style

Saw this over at TUAW and had to share. It seem that the Mac Vs PC debate had even effected the Satellite of Love at one point. MST3K has got to be one of the all time classic geek shows, and made an art out of talking durning a movie, much to the chagrin of [...]

Firefox to take over the World

Well maybe not the world but at lest a World Record. The Firefox team is trying to set a new Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a 24 hour period. The launch day has not yet been set but most likely will be some time in June. The total number of pledges [...]

Wacom Tablet

Well I got my government economic stimulus check that other day and I’ve been debating on using part of it to finance the purachase of a Wacom 6×11tablet. I’ve been look at the 6″ by 11″ version for a couple of reasons. One being price of course, though a 9″ x 12″ gets you [...]

Wiiiide Screen

Saw this insane rig setup over on TUAW today. The pic is up on Flikr with all the rigs marked. They guy is using an application called Synergy to seamlessly move the mouse and keyboard from one computer to the next with out using a KVM. The set up uses Five Macs, Three Windows boxes, [...]

Mars Edit

For the last few posts I have been experment with a offline editor called MarsEdit. With the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 made some good changes to how their editor works, the most notable being multi image upload. There are still some problem with it. After I made the upgrade I had to fight to [...]

Newest iMacs

Apple has release the newest specs for their iMac series of computers. The iMac is Apples midpriced model of computers with prices starting at $1200 for the 20inch 2.4Ghz version up to $2200 for the 24inch 3.06Ghz version. When I was planing my Mac purchase I deside not to go with the iMac mainly [...]

The Power of Automator

One of the worries of anyone running a website on a computer they don’t control is what happens if when the computer fails. For a long while (pre Mac days) I handled it by, at least once a month downloading a mirror of everything on the site’s server, and backuping the database manually once [...]

Steampunk Mac Mini

There are those of us who like Mac. There are those of us who like Steampunk. There are those of us who like both then there are those of us who like both and have the skill to do something about it. What you see in the pic above is re-skined MacMini and not [...]