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I’m Going, Going, Back, Back to Cali, Cali
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps, The Life of Me / March 10, 2010Oh wait... not "back" to Cali... but I am going to California. The week of the 21st this month I will be going to California for work. It'll be for the whole week to do some IT stuff at one of our ...
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Damn You MacBook!
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / November 19, 2009Just when I thought I got all of my computer problems straightened out... The "combo drive" (CDRW+DVDROM) in my Macbook decides to shit the bed. OK, so it's not totally dead - but it makes some awf...
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Thank You Apple
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / November 4, 2009If you've been following along here, you may have read by now that I've set up both Jen and myself with Time Machine backups for our laptops. I have an external hard drive connected to the Airport Bas...
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Apple Magsafe Power Cord Issues
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / September 12, 2009Not sure what the issue is yet, but the power adapter for my Macbook has developed a quirk. The little light on it has a mind of its own. Normally it should be green when fully charged and amber/oran...
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I’m Above Average
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / September 9, 2009With regards to iPhone user App purchases anyway... anything else is up for debate. A story on TUAW says that the average iPhone user has spent about $80 on apps with an average of 65 apps per user...
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Apple Update Day
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / September 9, 2009Lots of new from Apple today (as just about every other blog on the internet is going to report). Real quick, here's what I got out of it... though I'm sure there were more details that I don't care a...
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Just Own Up to it Already!
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / September 8, 2009In the ongoing App Store saga of approved/rejected Apps... Manomio's Commodore 64 Emulator (official version) was just pulled from the App Store recently for containing a BASIC code interpreter that i...
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It's Not Even Winter Yet!
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / September 4, 2009And I'm officially upgraded to Snow Leopard (SL) on my Macbook. To be honest, I haven't really noticed much of a performance difference yet. I didn't really do any tests before and after... but thing...
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5 Reasons I'd Rather Have My iPhone
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / September 2, 2009Got a "tweet" from @all4blackberry pointing to an article of 5 Reasons Why Blackberry is Still Better than the iPhone. Thought "hmm... I have a BB and an iPhone, should take a look." Actually I've ow...
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Accessing the Internets, How I Roll
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / August 5, 2009Being an IT person, I guess I could share what I actually use for my computers daily... nothing fancy or anything, but they get me from a to b on the internets. I have two systems... a desktop that I ...
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