One more robot learns to be something more than a machine…

13″ MacBook Pro

The search for a new laptop is over.  I’m now the owner of a beautiful new MacBook Pro. When I first read a rumor about Apple converting the 13″ unibody MacBook into a Pro model, I was worried, assuming that meant the price point would be going up. Surprisingly, the price dropped!  Within 7 hours [...]

I’m Giving Apple Support an A+

And to think I was considering getting a non-Apple laptop as a replacement for my iBook… After returning from vacation last week, I noticed that a portion of the screen on my iPhone was not responding to touch. It covered the whole width of the screen, but less then a quarter of the screen height. [...]

So Long, iTramp

I’m sad to say that my first Mac, a 12″ iBook G4, is dead.  I’ll never forget lap dances from the ol’ iTramp…  It was definitely one of the best computers I have ever owned. After taking a spill, the internal display no longer works, which some certified repair technicians tell me would probably cost [...]

Quest for a Low-Power Home Server

For quite awhile I’ve been interested in setting up a low-power machine to do my home server tasks and allow for some geeky linux experiments. After doing the initial cost-benefit analysis it didn’t appear that I’d be able to build anything that would be cheap enough to give a reasonable return on investment, in terms [...]

Information Disclosure Via iPhone Backups?

Could someone acquire your corporate data by accessing iPhone backup data that resides on a user’s computer? This question came up during a discussion a few days ago and I felt compelled to find the answer. Apple included the ability to remotely wipe an iPhone when they released version 2.0 with Exchange support. They also [...]