Pix Picks
Picnik. Just tried this online image adjuster, useful for those times one doesn’t need an elephant gun to swat a mosquito. Someone had asked me to recommend a small app for sharpening images and I gave Picnic a try–in this…
Category Computing
Collaboration Station
Okay geeks and geekettes, here’s your chance to use your computer hack-trickery and knowledge to good purpose. I need your suggestions. Needs: a common place for a half dozen committee folks to submit relavant web links with comments; post ideas…
Wherefore WiFi?
I was sitting in a meeting at the Floyd High School one day recently with my laptop conspicuously up and running. (I’m not that much of a geek as I am painfully awful anymore at longhand and use OneNote on…
If It Works, Should I Fix It?
In anticipation of the Mac move I read for months about the relative merits and demerits of Parallels versus VMware Fusion to allow cross platform accessibility on the new machine. When MacMall added Parallels for free, installed and with the…
Computer Catechism Class Completed
Sorry, this is old news now, but I was in the midst of this terrible change of faiths when this was submitted for the February 08 edition of the Star Sentinel. I am happy to say that I now am…
Why Did I Get a Mac Exactly?
I’ve been asked here and around town this very question. So let me just address it here rather than in comments or emails. 1) The Dell XPS is 4.5 years old, out of warranty, needed a RAM upgrade badly as…
MacInations: Day 11
â—Š Country Living: It has its downside. After a young possum failed to move all day in spite of occasional benign torment from the dog, we decided it was ill, possibly infectious and apparently determined to die in place over…
Epson: Power Cord Not Included
I am generally a mild-mannered sort of guy and tolerant of a high level of ignorance, indifference and incompetence. I expect it, in fact. Cost cutting by quality compromise, planned obsolescence and crappy workmanship, too, I find not surprising. So…
Another day, Another Wee MacIssue
Sigh. Shutting things down as normal last night, and the machine hung. The little disk spun and spun on the screen and nothing happened. Kill it at the switch. This morning, the system seems to operate normally except that the…
Pavlov Where Are You?
If there are any regular readers (are any among them truly regular?) you might remember that on more than one occasion, our arboreally-named yellow lab Tsuga, has exhibited the most neurotic behavior on hearing computer tones. He especially dislikes the…
The Mac Minuet
 Don powdered wig. Motion to chamber musicians to begin. Take one stop forward, one step back, bow and flourish. Cuss and spit. So the disk drive tray opens. Finally. Adobe Creative Suite 3 is loaded. Finally. The moment of…
The Weakest Link
There’s this accidental damage to the international internet nervous system which was bad enough. But THREE cables severed in a few days? (CNN) — An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials…
If It Works…
Yeah, I know. But I did. I fixed it. By breaking it. Work Flow, a process, when it happens, to covet and protect. And when it’s gone, you’re an object at rest, a deer in the headlights, an inert and…
Not Exactly Doing Wheelies
I’m cooking in someone else’s kitchen this morning. Where are those darned hot pad holders anyway? I am so disoriented. Fred and his old PC: a stuntman like a bat out of hell standing on top of a speeding Corvette,…