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Optimize Productivity on Your Mac

October 6, 2009

Macs are born awesome, but add some of these applications and watch your productivity soar. Dropbox. An online harddrive, like an IDisk/MobileMe drive, but oh so much better. Dropbox is much, much faster than IDisk. You can install it on multiple computers and sync all of your files. It does a fantastic job of updating [...]

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Faceoff: Apple Macbook v. Lenovo ThinkPad T400 v. Dell Precision M2400

April 22, 2009

My old ThinkPad T43 is dead and I have been shopping for a new laptop. I value three things above all: portability, durability, and performance. I take my laptops everywhere, so they need to be thin and light. That means they also take a lot of abuse. And I like to keep my laptops for [...]

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Death of a ThinkPad

April 17, 2009

I am sad to report that my ThinkPad has died. Or rather it is in the midst of its dying throes at the moment. The hard drive is crunching away like a pepper grinder while I attempt to nuke the remaining data before recycling it. I am hard on my laptops. I took my ThinkPad [...]

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Macs are awfully tempting

July 3, 2008

We bought my wife a Macbook a couple of weeks ago after she finally agreed that her broken-screened, dead-USB, no-battery laptop was nearly unusable. (Most of those conditions were my fault, albeit by accident.) So we picked up a $1,099 white Macbook. My wife is not a technophobe, but she is no geek, either. She [...]

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iPhone 3G . . . blah blah blah

June 12, 2008

The internet is abuzz with news of the iPhone 3G, the most powerful feature of which seems to be a price tag that finally brings the iPhone into direct competition with other smartphones. I am not giving up my BlackBerry Pearl any time soon, though. What I want to know is when is Apple going [...]

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