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Posted in Main on Feb 29th, 2008
My comments in this blog seem to offend some. For better or for worse, I speak what is on my mind. It sometimes gets me in trouble, but most of the time helps me get stuff off my mind. I will admit that I’m a Mac snob and want applications to have a Mac user [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 29th, 2008
Today I had the opportunity to be interviewed on the T4 Show. I’ve never done an audio interview before (I was interviewed back in high school for the recycling project I started for the local paper), so I was a little nervous. I tried to focus and think before speaking. After a few false starts [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 29th, 2008
I have the daunting task of writing the documentation for ReceiptWallet. While I have some as well as some knowledge base articles, the docs need an overhaul. I wrote the previous version of the docs for Apple Help by hand. This time, I was going to look for a tool to do it. I found [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 27th, 2008
There are two types of computer users, those that have lost data and those that will. Yes, I know this is a profound statement, but computers are prone to fail (they are made by humans, who do, of course, make mistakes). I’m very religious about my backups as I have lost data in the past, [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 27th, 2008
Periodically I get inquiries from Apple employees about discounts. Sometimes I respond, “what kind of discount can you give me?”, but usually I give them the line that ReceiptWallet is priced low enough that it is affordable and if it saves time, isn’t it worth the cost?
I can understand educational users asking for discounts, but [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 27th, 2008
Yesterday, I went to see about contacting support for VMWare Fusion to see why my el cheapo negative and slide scanner wouldn’t work as no one responded to my forum post (on their forums). After poking around the site, I discovered that they only offer 30 days of complimentary email support. After that I have [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 27th, 2008
After my calendar didn’t sync today using BusySync, I started poking around. The BusySync log gave a Google error saying that I had exceeded my quota. I’m not sure what it was pushing or pulling, but I took the opportunity to clean up my calendars. I had events back to 2002 in it that I [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 26th, 2008
I see that Apple released new MacBook Pro machines today. The upgrade seems quite minor. I was hoping for more. While I will get a new machine (after I pay the tax man and see what is left), I really wanted something faster than 2.5 GHz (the 2.6 GHz upgrade for $250 is a waste [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 24th, 2008
This shouldn’t be news to most, but our government is quite hypocritical. Today I was reading about a bunch of men that were arrested in Saudi Arabia for flirting with women. They were arrested by the religious police. Here is a country that has no religious freedom and is a dictatorship, ummm, I mean kingdom. [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 24th, 2008
Yesterday I went to use my Sony Reader and it said “Low Battery”. This was very strange as it had been plugged into the charger for 2 days, so it should be charged. I looked at the Reader and it said it used a 5.2 V charger. I looked at the charger and it said [...]
