Tech Talk

Quicken has again pushed back its release date for Quicken Financial Life for Mac, now anticipating its release in February of 2010 .  This is about the third time that Quicken has pushed back the release of this new software.  It was originally debuted (in much the same form as today) back in January, 2008, [...]

One month and two days ago, I posted about my experience with online backup solution Mozy.  I’d tried the product once before and been disappointed with the backup speeds, and so I abandoned it, only to begin again last month.  After a month of backing up, I’ve almost got my initial 60GB plus a month’s [...]

I’m trying to go paperless at home… well, not really.  I’m really trying to make sure some important documents don’t get destroyed if we ever had a fire or other disaster at home.  I don’t know why, but that sort of things concerns me now.  Maybe it was Hurricane Katrina and memories of Hurricane Hugo [...]

To the Napster (real, not pay-for) generation, such as my self, the peer-to-peer thing has always been enticing.  That’s why I was so impressed when I stumbled upon CrashPlan last week.  It immediately struck me as a great idea for backup.  Peer to Peer backup really puts you in control of your data backup and [...]

Ok, its been months… I’m kind of bummed.  I signed up for the Quicken Financial Life for Mac beta program back in February of 2008, shortly after AppleInsider’s first coverage of the product.  While I’ve waited patiently and while I’ve signed up on the their beta signup for several time over the months that followed, [...]

One of the perks at my full-time employeer is the ability to do an employee computer purchase during the year.  With just 15% down, the company will finance the rest of a computer and payroll deduct the remaining amount from your paycheck.  In addition, they usually get pretty decent discount because of quantity with the [...]

Well, after a week of issues with the Parallels Desktop 4.0 upgrade, I trashed my VM that I have lovingly used for the past year and I have started over with a fresh import from the Virutal PC VHD file I keep on hand.  See, here is my history with Windows virtualization on the Mac:  [...]

Sorry for the update shortages.  I have had a tough week with the death of a great-aunt last week.  I hope to be back online posting daily from here on out.

I apologize for slow updates on this blog.  I feel like I got a false start on it and then left it hanging for a couple weeks.  During that time, I’ve had some personal things going on that have taken much of my attention, but I’m going to be trying hard to post and keep [...]

In light of HP’s crap support yesterday, today I thought I’d relay something more positive towards a company I admire. This time its not Apple. Its USAA – the United States Automobile Association.
USAA is a bank/insurance/financial company which is a member’s only corporation serving active and former members of the armed [...]