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Normally when someone asks me about getting a computer, I say, buy a MacBook with Applecare (three year warranty because it runs Windows and Mac OS X. And while it might seem expensive to start, they certainly are durable and the support is terrific. We have MacBooks bought in 2009…

FCP.co posted a 24-hour hands on with the new Mac Pro. They found read speeds of 880MB/s from the Mac Pro’s solid state storage, with impressive write numbers of 985.5MB/s. Further, the team discovered that new machine could post full 4K video with multiple color corrections, effects and transitions playing back all…

Well we already had Drobo Pro, so now here is XBMC. YOu need a pre build of Frodo 12.2 for it to work. 

So if you don’t have an unlimited hoster (like bluehost) and don’t want to maintain your own gallery (like zenphoto), here is what you can do. There are a zillion of these things according to wikipedia: * Flickr. This is 1TB of storage which is pretty close to unlimited for…

MacBook Pro this morning turned on but no bong and the screen is black. Google searches leads to either a motherboard failure or try a PRAM reset. That means hold down the on and then p, r and the option and command key. Quite hard to do but it worked!

Well every release of OS X seems to break our trusty old Drobo Pro. The things that really don’t work: iSCSI initiator. The one they use needs an old Java 6 and is pretty flaky, but there are not complaints like the Firewire and USB. I’ve had lots of prior…

Now that world is moving to 4K displays, it’s interesting to see what hardware actually works where. This is 4x more pixels than a 1080p display and double (about) that of a retina display (which is 2.8K or 1800p depending on the measurement system). So here is what seems to…

Weird assymetry, you can control an iTunes from an iOS device, but not from any Mac OS X computer… Here’s how to fix that… lion – How can I control iTunes from another Mac? – Ask Different I’ve got a Mac Mini running Lion that stores my iTunes library. It’s…

PSQX4645ZA_TD7695_OI – KXTD7695.pdf This phone’s off mode is pretty obscure, but one day one then another of our phones looked dead. The battery showed fully charged, but when you pulled out of the charger, the screen went completely blank. Well, it turns out that unlike most devices, this just means…

Well, if you had a bunch of time on your hands and just wanted to fly somewhere (loving adventure), then you’d want to maybe fly in the best first class seats in the world, so here they are: Etihad Airways continues winning streak as it’s First Class seats are named…