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A few months without Steve is a good thing…

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:January 17, 2009
Post category:Geek Miscellany Rants
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One of the big news items during the past week has been the fact that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is taking a medical leave of absence for several months. The media has been frothing at the mouth over this: speculation regarding the death of Apple in the absence of this one man, guesses regarding the nature of Mr. Jobs’ illness, and even retrospectives of the man’s life as if he is already dead. Frankly, it is too much, and I personally think everyone, the media, the investors, and the public, should be ashamed. I also think that Steve’s leave will be a good thing for him and for the company itself.

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RealPlayer causes Mac Leopard network problems?

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:August 6, 2008
Post category:Gear
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I was visiting a news site with my OSX Leopard based MacBook Pro two days ago and was prompted to install RealPlayer in order to watch a video. I’ve never had any particular problems with RealPlayer in the past, so I said “yes”, and didn’t really think much more of it.

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A new family member… the iMac

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:June 14, 2008
Post category:Gear
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I received my second Macintosh a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d share some photos and thoughts regarding the new arrival.

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Faintly ironic…

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:May 30, 2008
Post category:Gear Geek Miscellany
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I’m sitting here in front of my second computer, more commonly known as “Irene’s game computer.” It is going through the process of installing Windows Vista at the moment, for the third time in less than a week due to various hardware and driver issues.

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New server mostly up and running

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:January 30, 2008
Post category:Gear Site news
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I seem to have reversed the forces of entropy! The new server is basically operational, and this blog is now being served by fresh, clean hardware. I’ll post something detailing the innards of the new box this upcoming weekend.

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MacWorld stuff: Time Capsule and Apple TV v2.0

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:January 15, 2008
Post category:Gear
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Steve Jobs and his reality distortion field apparently put on a relatively quiet show at MacWorld today. Apple stock dropped about $10 on comparatively underwhelming (to the analysts) product announcements- basically, there was no iPhone this year.

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“Send your email as HTML” just a suggestion on the Mac

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:December 9, 2007
Post category:Gear
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I have a deep, dark secret to admit: I often send email using HTML/rich text features. I know, it is shocking: but I fear the seductive features of things like fonts, bold facing, and colour have turned me from the true path of pure text.

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Stupid Mac tricks…

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:November 19, 2007
Post category:Gear
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In computers, bugs are a fact of life. No matter how much someone might claim that an application or operating system is “perfect”, the truth is always quite different.

Take the Macintosh, for example. I’ve been using my MacBook Pro for a while, and am pretty impressed with its behavior. But “bug free? Heck no. Here are a few recent examples of “unexplained” behavior:

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The Macintosh is cheaper…??

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:November 7, 2007
Post category:Gear
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As anyone reading this blog knows, I bought a Macintosh recently. Heck, all I’ve written about during the last couple of weeks has been my MacBook Pro. I am pretty happy with my new computer, but I’m the first to admit that a Macintosh isn’t exactly an economical alternative to a PC.

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Adding memory to a MacBook Pro

Post author:Kelly Adams
Post published:November 3, 2007
Post category:Gear
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I can never leave well enough alone. If 2 GB of RAM in my MacBook Pro is good, 4 GB of RAM would be better, right? Well, as a matter of fact, yes. So I set out to expand the memory of my new Macintosh, and have a few tidbits to share.

Can your MacBook Pro be expanded?

As I understand it, there have been a total of two “releases” of Intel-based MacBook Pro. The first came out late in 2006 and was in distribution until approximately June of 2007. That version used a version of the Intel chipset that, for reasons that remain unclear to me, could only address 3 GB of RAM. Note that you could *install* 4 GB, but that the machine itself wouldn’t actually use the memory above the 3 GB boundary due to mapping conflicts. I believe this first version of the MacBook Pro came with 1 GB of RAM standard.

Apple quietly updated the MacBook Pro during the June time frame of 2007. The new models use the Intel “Santa Rosa” chipset, and can now support up to 4 GB of RAM. These newer MacBook Pros come standard with 2 GB of RAM, with of the two slots in the machine filled (I.E.: two 1 GB SODIMM chips).

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