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Quiet good?

A week or so ago I told you about the iMac we took in. I’d described it as another one of the original Bondi Blue models, to go along with the other two we have already (one that works, and another that’s fried, but we keep for parts). Cheryl brought it home after getting in late that night and we put it on the only horizontal space available: the desk in Adam’s room. Adam woke…
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AppleComputer

Saving my sanity

How’s this for a testimonial: “I’d sign over my next paycheck to these folks, if my wife didn’t have any say in it.” Fat Cat Software and their little app: iPhoto Library Manager saved my bacon this evening. My iMac did something to me that an Apple computer hasn’t done to me in years: it crashed. It’s been so long I didn’t know what to do. If I was…
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AppleComputer

Ho-hum

I’ve got nothing better to do than to catalog my Macs, so here we go. (I’m a little bored.) Mr. T (a Mac Plus) I bought this one new from the UF bookstore in the Fall of 1989, tricked out with two, count ’em: TWO megabytes of RAM. Throw in an Imagewriter II and a 20 megabyte external hard drive, thanks to that ultra-fast, 2.1 MBps SCSI bus… and I was the envy of Hume Hall!
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ComputerWellbeing

Dangerous computing

Do you think it’s possible for laptop computers to be bad for you? I don’t mean bad for your budget or bad for your marriage… I mean bad for your health. Lately I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night, an intense dream just beyond recollection, suddenly in no mood for sleep. I keep my PowerBook on a table by the bed, so the internet is less than an arm’s…
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Computer

Multi-tasking

My wife thinks I’ve gotten a little out of hand. My daughter thinks I’m just a hair weirder. My son doesn’t have enough life experience to know what’s normal and what’s not. Me? I think I’ve stumbled upon the best thing since HTML and www. A few weeks ago I was getting a sore neck. The problem was my new iMac and it’s spatial relationship to the TV. As a…
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AppleComputer

iLife

My last copy of iPhoto dated way back to version four. (And yes, this is another Mac entry… it’s all I’ve got to talk about… I haven’t been doing anything else.) I haven’t fiddled with any of the other iLife apps, but the new version of iPhoto has really impressed me. There aren’t a lot more editing tools, but the ones I’ve used are better. In…
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