October 14th was a good day for Mac fans with the release of the updated macbooks. The 17 inch didn’t see any love, rumor sites say they found some troubles in the lab with them. Too bad. The 15 inch models got some love, no blu-ray because of licensing issues, and no price drop, and […]

…not even Microsoft itself can wean itself off the Mac… read more | digg story This is silly. Microsoft paid an advertising firm to make the content. It’s not uncommon for creative shops to use Macs. The US Air Force doesn’t allow Macs on their networks but their portal front page had a screen shot […]

I was in the Berlin Wal-Mart and stopped by the Unicel kiosk. I asked the sales associate what was going on with the Verizon/Unicel/AT&T deal. He said that AT&T could be in the state as soon as November. The associate’s understanding was that once the Verizon/Unicel deal was free of imperial entanglements (i.e. state of […]

Today I’m free. Today is the last day of my Verizon wireless contract and in a few short weeks I’ll be a happy iPhone user and an AT&T customer. The company is horrid. My fairly cool Razr isn’t cool at all. My nephews Cingular/AT&T Razr can do all sorts of cool stuff and will communicate […]

I was very disappointed with the initial release of Pirates! The Firaxis guys always seemed to get games out for the Mac fairly quickly, but Pirates! and Civ4 were sort of a downward trend for them. I had given up hope of playing Pirates! on anything other than my son’s Xbox, but a completely unrelated […]

The big news this 9th of September is that we have new iPod nanos, a new iPod touch, and new iPod software. There’s some HD content on the iTunes store and iTunes 8 is being released sometime today. Software Update doesn’t see the new iTunes software (as of 2:30PM Eastern). I was really hoping for […]

I was intrigued by Spore. I’m generally a sucker for strategy/action games (I’ve purchased nearly every game Sid Meiers has sold) I get disappointed fast with games that don’t live up to the hype. I bought Age of Sail II on the pre-release reviews and it was wretched. All the hype around Spore made me […]

After some testing I have been able to write posts for my blog on my iPod, on the web, and in MacJournal. Anything that’s on the web site will sync down to the iPod, but MacJournal doesn’t seem to receive changes from the blog after downloading the initial blog post. I’ll post on the macjournal […]

I have been trying to find a note taking or journaling application for the iPod Touch. I use MacJournal on the laptop and it’s really a great program. I, like many MacJournal users, am patiently waiting for the iPod Touch/iPhone version of MacJournal. I tried out WordPress for the iPod Touch and the free wordpress […]

So August 22nd is the release date for the iPhone in many central American and some small central European countries. We still don’t have them in Vermont. Like many things the state of Vermont lags far behind the rest of the country. Now we lag behind some third world countries. Why is that? In state […]