Things I love: Griffin SmartShare USB slim hub

A year and a half ago I bought my way into the cool club buy purchasing a Macbook.  It’s been serving me very well and I’ve been so happy with it I actually sold my Windows desktop this past fall, the Macbook is now my only computer.  The one thing I always felt slighted about [...]

Use Understudy to stream TV / Movies to your television using Front Row on a Mac

Just over a week ago I published the complete list of websites to stream full TV shows and movies from, the legal way to stream content to your computer.   The problem is, I don’t want to watch videos on my computer, I have a 42” plasma that I’d much prefer to watch TV and movies [...]

Finally! Streaming Netflix on my Mac

For the better part of this year I’ve been subscribing to and generally enjoying Netflix, but one feature I could never take full advantage of was the streaming on demand content.  That all changed today when I finally got the email from Netflix letting me know that I could now enjoy streaming on-demand video content [...]

Review: Crumpler The Considerable Embarrassment Laptop Bag

More than has passed since I bought my way into the cool club by purchasing a Macbook laptop and I couldn’t be happier.  At the time of purchase, I also ordered a Crumpler The Considerable Embarrassment Laptop Bag for it, based almost soley on the name and reputation of the company. Since I own one [...]

Reclaim disk space on your Mac in 5 minutes

Last year I bought my way into the cool club with a Macbook and haven’t looked back.  At the time of purchase there was a pretty hefty difference between the 120gb hard drive I got and the 160gb drive on the upgraded models, nothing else was readily available for the Macbooks and I figured the [...]

How addicted to Apple are you?

In the spirit of the Macworld 2008 keynote address which announced four new products and services, all of which can be recapped through this live feed from Gizmodo, I present to you the simple question, How addicted to Apple are you?

I’m not that addicted and doubt that I’ll increase my score anytime soon.
Personally, I’m bored [...]

I’m Afraid of My MacBook

As of 5pm EST, I became the proud owner of a brand spankin’ new 13.3″ screen, white, 2.2GHz something, 120 GB of something, and 2 GB of something else MacBook laptop.  It’s super freaking cool.  It is sexy and light and totally full of memory and I have yet to take it out of the box.  And [...]

My Christmas List

Now that I’m (kind of) an adult, I don’t really get to make a Christmas list anymore. There are fewer presents under the tree and more cards with some cash in them. It’s not that I’m complaining - money is great - but it’s more fun to open gifts than to buy them [...]

Mac users taking over the world

OK not really the world, but the market share is up a good 40% from last year. Mac users, don’t get to excited, Windows still owns 91% of the marketplace. Yahoo news reported today,
Mac’s worldwide market share among Web users increased to 6.6 percent in September, compared to 4.7 percent a year ago
It’s [...]

My $2400 Crush

Now, I know that humans invented shit like Craig’s List for stuff like this… and I also know that’s it’s stupid to spend $2400 just because you have a 30-second crush on someone, but I had an experience today that defies the logic of both of these things.  Today after work I stopped into the [...]