May 14, 2008

Engineered

As a computer consultant I get to walk into and clean up a lot of messes. Sometimes these are messes created by months of misunderstanding or simple neglect: logical misarrangement or the organic detritus of any natural process over time. Sometimes these messes are caused by a single catastrophic mistake...

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Posted by "Mac Rory" Bowman at 07:09 AM |

January 07, 2008

Macworld 2008 San Francisco

Every culture has its holidays: the oscars, fashion week, March madness or the world series. For Mac lovers, each December brings a frenzy of rumored speculation about our Superbowl, the Macworld Conference and Expo which takes place each January in San Francisco's Moscone Center. This year's conference takes place from...

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December 07, 2007

Apple Hardware December 2007

WIth the holiday buying season (and fiscal year-end) upon us, it seems a good time to review the current Apple product line, focusing on computers and handhelds and ignoring odd products such as the Apple TV and X-Serve. Below are currently shipping Apple computers as of December 2007, organized by...

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November 07, 2007

Learning to Love Leopard Mail

October 2007 saw the release of Mac OS 10.5, known popularly as "Leopard." Like most commercial software, it has been heralded with praise for the genius of its "time machine" backup strategy and concerns about how gray and translucent parts of the interface have become. There will be lots of...

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October 07, 2007

FAQ: Which Version of Mac OS X Do I Have?

And why does it always seem to be named after a cat?...

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September 07, 2007

Backup Basics

One of the things that sucks about my job is sometimes having to explain to people who are first calling me that, for whatever reason, huge amounts of their electronic life are forever lost. I get one of these calls every two or three months, and it is rarely easy....

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June 07, 2007

Social Networking Sites 2007

A few years ago the word "blog" was just an ugly neologism and no one in politics had coined the phrase "netroots." Part of what buzzing technorati call "web 2.0" both of these are tied to the concepts of social networking. Some of the larger social networking sites include MySpace,...

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