Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
So, I lost my iPod... it will either turn up, or it was stolen, or it will be stolen, where ever it is lost at, or something else that I haven't though of yet.
Until then, I consider my new iPod nano a business expense, since I use it (or will, ...
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
for my MacBook Pro
SMC Fan Control
Update:
SMC Fan Control 2
Worked great on my first generation Mac Book Pro for a while. But then it started overheating to the point that even with the fan on max it would shut down.
After wrangling with Apple (e.g. showing it shut down when I used ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
I love my Powerbook (even if other people would call it a Mac Book Pro), but there are two things I can't figure out that bug me:
First, I have unchecked the box in Energy Saver that says "Automatically reduce the brightness of display before display sleep" and "Reduce the brightness ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
I love the idea, but what is the point if this doesn't carry over to my iPod?
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Takes a lickin (put through the washer and dryer) and keeps on tickin (still works when I plug it into my iPod)
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
I've burned lots of disks with Toast (versions 5-7) and got quite a few media errors, proportionately more in DVD's than CD's.
I've burned about 5 DVD's tonight from the Finder and haven't had a problem yet.
So... Toast = better at detecting errors & Finder = poor quality control or Toast ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
taken with the built in camera on my Powerbook* using the awesome little Photo Booth.app
*I don't like "MacBook Pro" so I'll call my computer a powerbook, thank you very much... even if it confuses people...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Sometime today they stopped being friendly... I am using the web-based gtalk client in gmail, but it doesn't make any sound, so if you have AIM, contact me there if you need me badly. Otherwise email is (usually) working!
Edit (7/25/06):
they seem to be working again...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
I'm looking for the definition. The Genius at the local Apple store couldn't help me... When I try to open applications, sometimes I get this error.
My terminal is useless... every shell I open has no cursor, and the window is called "completed command"
This literally happened over night. I haven't ...
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
Some keyboard short cuts* stopped working for some reason. So I relaunched Finder (control-command-esc) and they started working again.
*Command-Shift-N, Command-Delete, and Command-Shift-Delete
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
I am having problems keeping the iChat Jabber client connected to Google Talk. I just found an application called Chax that makes iChat reconnect automatically. I will keep you up to date on if it works.
I thought that it would not install, as it said "Installation failed" But then it ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
• It is really big... I got 416x132 more pixels in 3 inches wider space... I thought they sent me a 17" one at first...
• It is light... not sure, but maybe lighter than my old Powerbook 12"
• The track pad is wider (similar dimensions to the screen.) I occasionally ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
My MacBook Pro came in today, and I moved into my new apartment. Exciting times.
Two observations:
1) The MBP is huge... this coming from a 12" Powerbook user.
2) The cabinets in my new apartment are not huge, and they have doors, and these little support posts that make the cabinets effectively ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
It has been a weird couple of whiles... Apple just changed Mac Book Pro shipping estimates to 3-4 weeks. So I'm hoping that means that they started shipping to the people first in line.
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Another me update for those of you that care.
I am in North Carolina, living with my friends Adam and Elizabeth Dawson. I was planning on taking 9 hrs. at South Eastern, but now I am instead taking 12 hours of online prerequisites (Old Testament in February New Testament in March, ...
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Two ideas came to me yesterday, and they seemed really good to me yesterday. See what you think.
1. Ok, I'm watching Sopranos with Thomas and Kim. We are almost done with the fourth season, so maybe this won't work because of what has happened in subsequent episodes. I think they ...
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
I couldn't find any help on Google. When I hold down the play/pause button, nothing happens, and when I select "sleep" from the main menu, all it does is stop the music. I've had this problem before, and updating the firmware. For some reason the update stopped working...
So... if anyone ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
So I'm using my Mac today to upload pictures to flickr. It is almost painful how much better this little computer is than my PC laptop. There is something wrong with the internal HD/ HD connection though, so I can only use this when I boot from my external HD. ...
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
For the second time in a couple of weeks, an installer FROM APPLE has hung and caused I/O errors to keep me from being able to boot...
The first time it was the new XCode (2.1, I think, the one that first included X86 dev tools.) I had to wait ...
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
Well, I still haven't been able to fix my computer... If I was smart and carried my Tiger disks with me I'd be fine, but I don't. If I was even smarter and updated my backup image before running installer.app , I'd be even better off, but I really didn't ...
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