Jun 26
- As a dog lover, I found this interesting – A Majority of Canine Injuries Occur on the Weekend – Here's the Reason Why: http://bit.ly/cCsvy #
Jun 19
- Lovin' the iPhone 3.0 update, just wish they allowed the Nike+ application to work onthe 3G and not just on the 3GS. #
Jun 12
- tweet tweet!!! #
- Petition: AT&T to offer reasonable iPhone 3GS upgrade prices http://twitition.com/f96aq @ryanbarr #
- Please sign this petition to stop AT&T from overcharging existing iPhone users for upgrading http://twitition.com/f96aq #
Jun 04
I’ve finally decided that it’s about time to start using the Time Machine system that is built into Mac OS X. I’ve heard a lot of great things about it, but haven’t really had the time or desire to play with it up until this point. When I began looking into the options for setting up Time Machine, I realized that the supported options were fairly slim. I could:
- Purchase a Time Capsule from the Mac store that would cost me in excess of $400
- Purchase an external hard drive that could be plugged into my MacBook Pro
Though both of these options would work, and would be ready to go “out-of-the-box”, neither of these situation was going to accomplish what I was looking to do. Which brings me to my third option: Setup a dedicated drive on my Windows PC that could be used as a Mac Time Capsule through my Mac OS X software. This is basically going to be the best option for me because there will be no out of pocket expense; I already have a PC that has an extra 250GB drive installed. The trouble is going to bee getting Mac OS X and the Time Machine software to recognize the drive on my Windows PC as a supported network drive.
I had a friend of mine ask me, “Why would you even want to do that [Use Apple's Time Machine] anyway?”. And the answer is really simple… Just in case. Just in case what? Just in case anything ever happens to my MacBook, to my data, to my music, to my documents, to my applications, etc.
The Time Machine software creates an entire backup of your system the first time it runs, then ongoing, it creates incremental backups every hour, and every week. The beauty of incremental backups is that they don’t take up nearly as much space as full backups do, yet you get the same security and piece of mind.
Let’s say for instance that I start my backup and I have my wedding album in my iPhoto library. 2 months go by and everything is fine and good, but then I somehow accidentally delete my wedding album from my iPhoto library on July 30, 2009. All Time Machine backups going forward will not contain a link to my wedding album, however if I go to any Time Machine backup prior to July 30, 2009 I’ll be able to retrieve a complete copy of my iPhoto wedding album. Pretty cool right?
Well stay posted as I start my journey to create a Windows PC that acts as a Time Capsule to be used with the Time Machine software on my MacBook Pro.
Mar 17
Well folks, the day is finally here… The guys over at Apple decided that it was about time that they added Copy and Paste functionality for the iPhone. After months, if not years, of people requesting the functionality, Apple has finally decided to integrate it into there newest version of the iPhone software. Such as in the request list on the i.nconspicuo.us blog.
If you ask me, it couldn’t have come at a better time. Apples stock has been down over the last few months (along with the rest of the stock market) and the release of this new 3.0 iPhone firmware will come at just the right time to give Apple stock a well needed boost.
Here are just a couple of the new features that will be added to the iPhone with the release of the OS 3.0 software:
- Search your iPhone
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Send photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
- Read and compose email and text messages in landscape
Nov 02
Apple has just released an update to iPhoto, version 7.1.5 which according to the Apple website, “…improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the iPhoto printing service.” A similar update for Aperture was released about a week prior to the iPhoto 7.1.5 update.
To learn more about iPhoto and/or the iPhoto 7.1.5 update, visit the Apple information page here.
Oct 30
Now that Starbucks has finally begun to offer WiFi access to iPhone customers, it was only a matter of time before those iPhone customers started to look for a way to make the iPhone access work on laptop computers, such as the MacBook or MacBook Pro (this should also work for PC’s). With a little tweaking and configuration, you’ll be able to “trick” the Starbucks wifi network into thinking that your laptop is actually an iPhone.
Here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Select attwifi from the available networks list.
- Open your web browser, it should redirect you to an AT&T page.
- Enter your 10 digit mobile phone number.
- You will receive a text message from AT&T (the text is free) with a secure link to the AT&T wifi hotspot.
- Type this link into the web browser on your laptop and you’re good to go.
- Enjoy your free wifi.
Oct 26
As a PC convert, I was an avid Picasa user. Picasa is Google’s own photo management tool that does a great job organizing and managing files, and it also has a lot of editing options built into it. Picasa’s ability to handle and manage a large amount of images while maintaining its speed is unparalled, and I can only imaging that it would be even more impressive on the Apple OS X operating system. I have 10’s of thousands of images in my Picasa library on my PC and Picasa works without a hitch. It’s never even crashed on me… It works like software should.
When will Picasa be available for the Mac?
Apparently a Google employee let the cat out of the bag that Picasa for the Mac will be available in late 2008. This news was originally made public back in January, and now in late October, there is still no new information regarding Picasa on the Mac. I’d just like to throw my name out there and let Google know that if they need any alpha or beta testers for Picasa for Mac, I’m whole-heartedly available.
Update: Picasa3
Now that Picasa 3 has been released for Windows users, maybe the Picasa team will be able to allocate some time to releasing a version of Picasa for the Mac. Let’s just hope that it will be soon… hopefully before Christmas. In fact, that’s all I want for Christmas. Google, Picasa, please grant me this one Christmas wish. At least a beta version of Picasa for Mac. Please….
Oct 25
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Oct 25
I have slowly been learning my around my new MacBook Pro, and in doing so, I’ve been searching for software and applications that allow me to do the same tasks that I was able to accomplish on a PC. Thus far, I’ve been able to find replacements that are as good, if not better than their PC counterparts. In this series, I’m going to attempt to outline my desktop setup and my software setup that I allows me to be my most productive while blogging.
As with most of you, the blogging platform is the most important part of your blog, in my case, that platform is Wordpress. Without our blogging platform, we’d have no blogs. There are 10’s if not hundreds of blogging platforms out there, it is more or less just a matter of choosing one that you like. I’ve chosen Wordpress for two primary reasons:
- Wordpress is a free software, and very powerful. It does what it says it does.
- Wordpress is community driven. This is probably the best feature because it means for hundreds of thousands of available themes and plugins, and the Wordpress platform itself is updated constantly.
Initially, my primary method of publishing posts to my blog was through the built in Wordpress web admin system, but as I became a more “seasoned blogger”, I began using local tools that would allow me to write and save posts to my local machine prior to publishing them to my blog. The first tool that I began using was on a PC, and it was offered by Microsoft – it was called Windows Live Writer. This tool was great and really introduced me to the idea of “offline blogging”. Since converting to a Mac, I’ve found a comparable software that makes offline blogging an absolute breeze. That program is called ecto and it is actually available for both Windows and OSX users.
