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iPad? iLove!

Dan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:37:20 +0000

Ok, so it’s a cheesy title, but the sentiment is true. I reserved my iPad the day Apple started taking preorders/reserves. I joined the crowd of people lined up outside my closest Apple store Saturday morning, and within an hour I was on my way home with the latest bit of Appley goodness. So [...]

No more Word!

Dan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:48:41 +0000

Ok, so… it’s not completely gone, so we’ll still have to deal with the bloated monstrosity that passes for a word processor until everyone (read that as ‘businesses’) comes to their senses and switches to something else. However, M$ did just receive the smack down (again) for doing bad things in word, specifically, stealing someone else’s [...]

Snow Leopard

Dan — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:57:50 +0000

Snow Leopard was officially released yesterday. I took half a day off from work to try and get an opportunity to play with it. Initial impressions: 64 Bit Safari… is Fast! But, the adblock extension for Safari isn’t 64 bit, so to use it, I’ve got to run Safari in 32 bit mode, where, it’s still fast..but [...]

Format wars are over!

Dan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:49:57 +0000

Well, mostly anyway. Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced that they will be exclusively releasing their titles on Blue Ray DVD only, and abandoning the sucky ass HD-DVD platform completly. Thier press release: (January 4, 2008 – Burbank, CA) – In response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray disc [...]

Safari 3

Dan — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:37:55 +0000

One of the items released to the public at today’s WWDC keynote, was a public beta of Safari v3.. now bringing speedy W3c compliant web browsing to the boring ass windows platform. Beta available here.. haven’t heard a actual release date yet. The blurb about it look good, and I’ll be giving the Mac version a [...]

Time for a Change

Dan — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:15:40 +0000

Looks like its time to change blogging software..... SixApart has apparently been busy censoring the users of their LiveJournal service.... I'm going to actively look into switching to another blogging software...

They want me to pay????

Dan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:21:11 +0000

Yes, the day has finally arrived when we can share this much anticipated news with our most loyal, passionate, and oh-so-patient Mac friends: We've partnered with Roxio to enable TiVoToGo in Toast 8 Titanium, available TODAY! Yes, you can now transfer your favorite TiVo recordings to your Mac, watch them in a player, burn them to DVD, and convert them for playback on iPod or PSP Right...so.. lets see if I have this right: 1 - Over two years after first announced 2 - Not from TiVo 3 - A product I have to purchase from a different company, to use a feature included in my monthly subscription fee to TiVo.

Free Laptops!

Dan — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:17:54 +0000

I was reading ArsTechnica today at work, and apparently, while I was on vacation, there was a torrid scandal in the blogosphere about Microsoft giving some bloggers early copies of Vista to review.. of course, thats mainly because they gave them fully loaded Acer Ferrari laptops as "review units", and apparently didn't require the units to be returned. Who knew that providing top of the line hardware to ensure the reviewers have a good experience (or, at least so they have a chance at a good experience - this is still a Windows OS they were reviewing so right off the bat you know its not going to be a really good thing) was so horrible.

TiVoToGo – Mac Edition

Dan — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:47:02 +0000

One of my favorite vaporware products, is Tivo’s TivoToGo for the Mac. TiVo first introduced TivoToGo almost 2 years ago for windows. And, like many companies, they immediately announced that they were still working on the Mac version, and, it would be available “Soon”. 2 years later… nuthin, not even a crappy beta that only works [...]

New TV

Dan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:51:36 +0000

For those of you who are starting to try and decide what you want to get me for Hannukah, or Christmas… here’s something for your list. JVC has introduced a new model HDTV… here’s a short blurb on it.