Monthly Archives: January 2006

Better than the Sony Reader?

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Scott Gruby

The other day I mentioned the Sony Reader for reading stuff on the go. After a little more research and wading through tons of negative comments about Sony’s offering, I came across The iLiad. Similar concept, but may be better … Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Recovery complete

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Scott Gruby

I restored my PowerBook’s hard drive to the state it was on Saturday before it crashed using the most excellent SuperDuper!. If you aren’t doing regular backups (daily), then you are asking for trouble. There are 2 kinds of computer … Continue reading →

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Digital Books and Sony Reader

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Scott Gruby

I have a pile of stuff to read on my computer’s desktop (technical stuff) that I just haven’t gotten around to reading. I don’t want to print it out and I don’t want to read it on my computer. I … Continue reading →

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Living in hell (must be real hot)

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Scott Gruby

Today on my way to run some errands, I passed by Serra High School and read their fairly new electronic sign. One of the messages on it had the current temperature listed as +266 degrees F. Wow! That is really … Continue reading →

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Surgery complete!

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Scott Gruby

I managed to replace the hard drive in my PowerBook with a Hitatchi Travelstar 7200 RPM, 80 GB drive. The instructions from www.pbfixit.com were excellent as well as their screw guide which I used to dutifully place and tape all … Continue reading →

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Fry’s – The good, the bad, and the ugly

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Scott Gruby

As I had some time to kill today, I decided to go ahead and get a new hard drive for my PowerBook and replace it without waiting until tomorrow. The choices on a Sunday for getting a laptop hard drive … Continue reading →

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Hard drive failure

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Scott Gruby

One of the worst things that could happen to a computer happened today to me. The hard drive on my PowerBook failed. It started making funny noises yesterday and then today it stopped spinning. Given that I’m a bit paranoid … Continue reading →

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Stuffit Archives and .hqx encoded files

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Scott Gruby

Stuffit products have been on my Macs for years and have done a wonderful job of compressing and decompressing. Stuffit Expander shipped with all versions of the Mac up until OS X Tiger. Now that zip is built into the … Continue reading →

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Passing off Windows software as Mac software

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Scott Gruby

It amazes me that companies recompile their code to work on the Mac (either using cross platform GUI libraries or trying to make a Mac interface without basically ever using a Mac) and expect Mac users to not be offended … Continue reading →

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HTML Email

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Scott Gruby

Yesterday I received a message from the Palm developer program; it looked liked there was nothing in the message, so I poked around and found that it was an HTML formatted email. I’m a bit of a luddite when it … Continue reading →

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