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Continue reading →: Lacie 80 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Updated 11/13/2011: I noticed a sudden interest in this post, which seems odd considering it mentions an older and fairly uninteresting hard drive from 2006. Some of the search keywords that may be bringing visitors here include “lacie” and “anykey”. I’m guessing that the “anykey” part is keying on the…
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Continue reading →: Pentax Optio E10 Digital Camera (6 MP)
I purchased a new digital camera. It was an impulse buy in the sense that I hadn’t planned to purchase a digital camera that day, but I did plan to buy one soon. Last May I decided to take my primary digital camera at that time, a Kodak EasyShare CX4230…
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Continue reading →: NSLU2 and ADS USB 2.0 External Drive Chasis
Linksys NSLU2 I recently hooked up my NSLU2 to an external hard drive. A 1 GB USB drive is connected in the back. The hard drive is housed in an ADS USB 2.0 External Drive chasis, which I had for several years. I originally used it with a different hard…
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Continue reading →: Cleaning House – OS X Maintenance Utilities
This weekend I spent several hours focusing on my G4. I work on the system every day, generally at night. However, it’s been several months since I last cleaned up old files and checked the general “health” of the system. Currently, I have two 160 GB drives installed (one drive…
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Continue reading →: Dia – Diagram Creation Program
Occasionally, I need a program such as Visio for flowcharting, etc. Last week I encountered Dia, an open source diagram creation program available for many different platforms. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
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Continue reading →: Retro Gaming on the Mac
I’ve toyed with console emulation many times over the past decade. This weekend I decided to give it another run, this time on my Mac. For reference, I’m running a Dual Processor G4 system with a 20″ Cinema Display. A while back, after I upgraded to Tiger, I experimented with…
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Continue reading →: Peter Maurer's Butler
I’ve been searching for an OS X utility to create program menus (similar to the Windows Start menu) so I could remove several Dock icons that I use infrequently. Granted, I could have simply removed them from the Dock and dug through the hard drive whenever I needed them, but…
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Continue reading →: Anagramarama
Anagramarama is a free, open source game for Windows, Linux, and BeOS. Best of all, it has a small footprint so it will easily run from a portable drive. If you love games like Bookworm, then you may want to give this game a try. http://www.coralquest.com/anagramarama/ By the way, the…
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Continue reading →: Sluggish iPod Nano and TuffWrap Woes
Ever since I executed the previous iPod nano firmware update mine seems more sluggish. Often I’ll tap a button to go to the next screen and it takes a second to respond. It sure would be nice to be able to purchase Tetris for my nano. I could load Linux…
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Continue reading →: Apple iTunes 7
After the release of iTunes 7 many users complained of bugs and crashes. So far I haven’t had any major problems and while I haven’t spent much time exploring it I haven’t noticed anything especially cool about the update. There are a few annoyances such as the forced organization of…
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