update 2006.09.05: SOLD! I’m trading in my PowerBook for a bottom of the barrel white MacBook (I plan to add a 7200 RPM drive and 2GB of RAM sometime after purchase). If you need a PowerPC laptop, give mine a gander over @ eBay: 15″ PowerBook 1.67 Ghz 80GB 1.5GB SuperDrive Airport If you “buy it now” […]

I’ve had two batteries for my PowerBook for about three weeks now. Every time I went to switch out the dead battery for the charged one I would fumble around for something to release the old battery with (nickels and quarters work well. In a pinch, a credit card works too). Just a few minutes […]

My iMac sits in my bedroom. There are certain rules: 1) always mute it 2) don’t use the CD-ROM (it’s quieter than my PowerBook, but still annoying) 3) don’t update it’s firmware (this one is new - learned minutes ago) I just snagged the firmware update and did the install. If your Intel based […]

Last we heard, my fourth iPod was on its way. Well, that one has been replaced and now number 5 is here. What happened to number 4? Things were looking good. I received it on a Saturday morning and it still had some charge in it. I plugged it in, […]

On January 30th I purchased a video iPod. Since then, I’ve held three different video iPods, each were considered “mine”. Each of these were enjoyable for about one day. At the end of that enjoyable day I realized the battery life was horrible. As soon as I notice and come to […]

I ordered my stock 17″ iMac on Friday via Amazon. UPS says it’ll show up today. Conveniently, today is a US holiday so I’ll be home all day doing miscellaneous things and working on rooVid beta 3 (well under way). Beta 3 will almost certainly be a Universal Binary. The first […]

DHL dropped off my replacement iPod today, it’s syncing now. The replacement seems to be in good working order, but only time will tell. To recap, here’s a timeline of events: Wed Feb 8th: Filed my problem report with Apple Thu Feb 9th: DHL dropped off the packaging to send the iPod back […]

I often have an external display attached to my PowerBook. Just recently I wished my “primary” display, the one with the menu, was my external display. After about five minutes of poking at the display preferences pane I realized you can drag the little menu from the display it’s on to whichever display […]

Filing the “my iPod’s battery is useless” complaint was easy. Enter your serial number, explain the problem[1], wait. Next day a box shows up at my door. Open it, read the instructions, pack up the ‘pod, tape up the box, hand package off to DHL and wait some more. Kudos to Apple on […]

The app I’m working on has the ability to easily take your iMovie project or QuickTime movie and push it over to iTunes where it can then be synced with your iPod. In order to ensure this feature worked I purchased a 30G iPod video (aka 5th gen iPod). It was about a week ago […]