I work with two different organizations here in the city that work with homeless youth, people with disabilities and the LGBT community to set them up with computer labs for client and student use. If you have a computer you would like to dispose of and would like to donate it, I will securely wipe [...]
For my friends who don’t already know, Lifehacker is my absolute favorite website on this earth. My main computer is the Lifehacker Hackintosh that I tweaked ever so slightly that it runs about 50% faster than the fastest Mac I have ever owned. So when I send them a question, I’m going to blog it [...]
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From a post I made on lifehacker.com about hosting companies. I will not work with DreamHost in anything but a single individual WordPress installation. STAY AWAY from DreamHost. They use a proprietary interface that even their technicians don’t know how to use or troubleshoot. I had a terrible, terrible time dealing with them and after [...]
What I say here is generally my take on facebook. I was saying it to a friend who was seeing some inspiration in the Mark Zuckerberg story. (this is edited from the original post.) …that takes a position that Facebook has any staying power. Remember when everyone was on AOL? Facebook is overvalued. Will it [...]
Hmm, Yelp to the rescue again! I popped on Yelp to find a messenger service with a good reputation and within 10 minutes I’ve got my new messenger service – Samurai – taking care of my delivery so I can get back to work. I got an email lickety split (which is how we like [...]
Day One Journal App – Review of a Review… #FAIL
fwiw: If you’re looking for a publication with some class & integrity for Mac & iPhone related topics, I suggest macstories.net. I find them helpful, informative and reasoned. There was a review of a personal diary program, Day One, today on AppStorm, a site I visit from time to time. It was an awful review [...]
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