I have the dubious privilege of being an original iPhone user. This means that I am more elite than most iPhone users — I stood in line, I paid a small fortune, and for maybe 3 months, I had the best phone in the world before most anyone else I knew. I also have the [...]
We have an inkjet multi-function printer, that we figure is nearly 5 years old. Its an HP, and although their quality has declined recently, we have been happy with it. Its been limping along on its last legs for a couple years now, and yesterday it ran out of ink. We also have a Samsung [...]
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Technology can appear daunting. It seems like every time you buy something, it promptly becomes worthless. I used to sell computers to people (during college) and they’d often complain that what they bought would be obsolete in months anyway. And sometimes that’s true. I have two friends who bought plasma TVs, while we went LCD. [...]
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So I finally got a couple LaserDiscs to go with my new player. This technology, predating even the Compact Disc, was a truly wonderful and terrible invention. I used to have a MiniDisc player, back before iPods even existed, and I was a big fan of the format. The discs just looked so cool and [...]
In the late 1970s an incredible new video technology debuted. Originally called Discovision, it delivered high resolution movies on an optical platter roughly the size of an LP. Although it was an analog medium, movies frequently included a digital audio track (typically 3 channel DTS) along-side the stereo analog track. LaserDisc was significantly more expensive [...]
Turns out the easiest way to get your tax refund from your American bank to your Canadian one is just to drive to the States, get a money order made out to yourself, then drive back… So we’re off to Buffalo tomorrow to do just that. And since we’re there we figure we might as [...]
OK, that was fun. My voice barely made it, but I managed to talk for the better part of 2 hours, about nothing but geek stuff. In the mid 90s it was very hard to be a Mac fan. But this group of people, like many other faithful users, did it anyway. They bombed down [...]
Apple’s Forgotten Future Presented by Jon Wise In 1985 Steve Jobs was forced out of the company he co-founded, by a man he hired to run the business. While Apple carried on with the momentum set by the Macintosh, having their share of hits and misses along the way, what Jobs did next would help [...]
I apologize for the temporary geek-out interruption, but have you seen this thing?! This year’s MacWorld was a yawner. Palm, on the other hand, just blew everyone’s socks off. A long, long time ago, Palm used to be this uber-cool company putting out fantastic, simple and elegant little gadgets… right up until the Treo line [...]
One of the things we intend to do with our new house is to make it as self-reliant as possible. We’ve lived for a long time depending on the resources of a landlord or an organization to provide the functionality we need from a home. Although we’ll probably never be one of those people who [...]
