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Dell Mini 9 – Just Over 1 week In

JT — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:11:23 +0000

It forces you to make compromises - which in the end, doesn't really affect the quality of your work, but may end up saving you a ton money. ...I hadn't plan on doing any photo editing or major graphic work on the machine, so my needs are pretty basic - word processor and small spreadsheets.

My New Dell Mini 9

JT — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:21:00 +0000

I finally got my Dell Mini 9 that had I ordered last week!! Spent a few hours setting it up last night and a couple of hours this morning tweaking it to mimic the functionality of my desktop.

Makeup Photo! – Automatic online photo retouching

JT — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:07:37 +0000

Makeup Pho.to allows you to upload or retrieve a portrait image from the internet and it will perform a number of image enhancements to that image automatically. ... Once your picture has been touched up, the site gives you several options : you can manually touch up the picture using their online tools, you can simply save it to your machine, or "shared" the picture on the net by allowing the picture to be hosted by Pho.to and the site provides all the necessary http/embedded code to help link to the picture, or you can save to a Pho.to account.

First Look: Amazon Kindle for iPhone

JT — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:46:09 +0000

I was going to write about this on my blog as I just downloaded the application today... but I I like the way The Apple Blog put it: That sound you heard across the Internet late Tuesday night was every tech blogger on the planet clicking on iTunes to download the new Kindle for iPhone app. ... The only two cents I have to add is that I connected both my wife's 3G and my 2G iPhones to the same Amazon account and we can now share any online purchases.

Got My Spanning Sync – Get Your’s

JT — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:02:49 +0000

I highly recommend that you get the product if you've encountered all the limitations I've found in trying to get an easy solution for sharing a family calendar across multiple Macs and iPhones. I like the product so much, I've left a permanent link on my blog to save anyone else who is interested $5 on the software (full disclosure: I get the same kick back - not too shabby.)

iPhone, Calendar and Google Calendar Syncing

JT — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:59:12 +0000

I have spent months looking for a solution that would allow my family share a calendar on all the Macs and iPhones that are in the house. ... Unfortunately life isn't standing still as I try to resolve this issue so I've had to break down and look at some premium services that would allow me to make all my synchronization issues go away.

WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO

JT — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:00:20 +0000

While a lot of the pictures concentrate on the PC or Mac that is located in the office (I'm assuming that most of the people just live on their PCs/Mac like me...), there are quite a few that are unique and don't feature high-tech hardware. ... Do yourself a favor and add it to your favorite RSS reader -- If you're like me, you'll enjoy spending some time seeing where people do the things that they do.

OpenDNS Finally Configured

JT — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:11:51 +0000

Finally got around to spending 5 minutes configuring my home network to use OpenDNS. I figured that it is just one more layer of protection I can give my network. OpenDNS gives you the ability to perform internet filtering and gives you an additional layer of protection from phishing sites for free

Ecto 3 – Windows Live Writer Killer (for me)

JT — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:00:39 +0000

Disregard my last post about Back in the Saddle with Live Writer -- I've found Nirvana in Ecto v3 for the Mac. No longer will I have that icky feeling firing up a Windows VM to run a blog editor. Now I can concentrate on just producing content and not worry about interoperability or resource consumption. I think I'm going to cry.

Netflix Woes

JT — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:56:54 +0000

[Edit: If you are here to get some ideas on how to get Netflix streaming working, go to this article instead to see what finally worked for me.] I’ve been meaning to post this article for awhile, but RL got in the way. In any event, after performing my 10.5.6 upgrade I was very happy [...]