Out of Control®

Before the holidays I started to use Apple’s Aperture photo management software. Mainly because my new camera lets me shoot in Raw, and I also wanted more control over editing and organizing all my photos. The following bugged me for awhile, so I am posting it here as a reminder to myself: How to bulk [...]

[Updated: 2009/09/25 1:45pm] Just to clarify before you start reading, I love Apple and their computers, and this is one of the first times I have experienced such poor service. I did call customer support, twice, and they apparently had no other solution for me. The following is what I sent to Apple, based on [...]

Apple just announced their new laptop or notebook. They are claiming the worlds thinnest notebook with the thinnest area at a mere 0.16 inches thick. This looks like an awesome little machine which includes a 13.3 inch wide screen. A little disappointing was the price though, at $1799 it fits in between the MacBook and [...]

digg_url = “http://digg.com/apple/Is_Apple_using_Microsoft_NET_servers_for_their_sites” Last week I bought a new iMac 20 inch to replace my old G5 Dual 2.7GHz machine. A promo came with the new iMac for a Free iPod Nano from Apple. While filling in the promo rebate form (http://www.apple.com/promo/rebate) I made a mistake and need to go back one page. Without thinking [...]

Well, it’s been a little longer than a couple of days, but as promised here is the second installment of my Kill-A-Watt story. Those of you just tuning in, I bought a Kill-A-Watt meter. Basically you plug it into an outlet, and plug your electric device into the Kill-A-Watt, and presto, it will tell you [...]

No no, this is not an article about how much land fill is being created by Apple. Nor is this about how much toxins are being dumped into our soil by Apple. This is Part I of a blog on the power consumption of my computer. Why am I doing this? Simple: I bought a [...]

A buddy pointed me to MacFUSE from Google today. This is a very cool little app headed up by Amit Singh at Google Inc. Note that the little how-to I am going to show you here is based on the fact that I am using OS X. MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible [...]