Tech Talk

In the process of installing the Windows 7 beta, I have come across a few things that don’t quite work well out of the box on my MacBook Pro.  Here are some notes from my experiences that may help someone else:

Partitioned the drive using Boot Camp Assistant.  Install takes up about 9GB, so you’ll want [...]

About 1:59pm today, I finally received my invitation to the Quicken Finanical Life beta program.  The software is currently downloading in the background and I anticipate installing it and giving it a test drive here shortly.
Update:
There is a confidentiality agreement for testers, so I won’t be providing any details, but I will be playing.  Good [...]

File this under “its about time.”  AppleInsider is reporting from “reliable” sources that redesigned MacBooks and MacBook Pros will be surfacing middle of October.  I’m ready to upgrade my trusty Powerbook for a nice shiny MacBook Pro.  I have been holding out for a redesign.  The design has largely stayed the same through the Intel [...]

Heard on the radio this morning that ole Microsoft is in the midst of producing an advertising campaign to counter the Mac/PC ads from Apple. They have enlisted comedian Jerry Seinfield to star in the campaign along side Bill Gates. I can only imagine how this one will go. For Microsoft’s sake, [...]

In my original post, I completely neglected the Back To My Mac feature introduced with OS X Leopard’s release. It was another big feature of .Mac and now MobileMe that I really like to make use of. BTTM worked as somewhat of a mystery to me, until yesterday. AppleInsider has a great [...]

Well, its taken years, but it’s finally happened. I can actually walk into a store and buy a Mac in MYRTLE BEACH! I knew Best Buy was expanding their Apple mini-store program… It took me by surprise because I had no idea that a lower level market like Myrtle would be getting [...]

Its been a little while since MobileMe has been released and the dust has started the settle. There was a lot of attention to the botched launch and even the Steve has weighed in on it with an internal email circulated through Apple. And while the launch had major issues, the service is [...]