Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Happy 30th Birthday, Macintosh!

« 25 January 2014 | 22:52 | Apple | 3 Comments »

Yesterday, January 24th, was the 30th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer. I wasn’t aware of that until my browser brought up its default page, apple.com. I was pleasantly surprised and greeted with (expectedly) the great advertising that Apple is known for (click here for 30 Years of The Mac). Seeing this immediately took me […]



He makes the jump….to the iPhone 4.

« 14 October 2011 | 9:23 | Apple, Technology | 7 Comments »

Yes…the time has come for all good men…no, no…ok. Yes, I made the jump to the iPhone 4 today. The purchase experience was great. The same Verizon store salesperson that helped me with both Blackberries over the last 3 years, was there to assist, and everything went smoothly. For those who are not on AT&T […]



Call me a neo-Luddite (old tech wins this round….)

« 27 June 2009 | 2:20 | Apple, Macintosh, Music Production/Studio Recording, Technology | 2 Comments »

In my recording studio, I have a very old sampler, a Yamaha TX16W. This sampler has a 3.5″ disk drive that reads Yamaha’s proprietary format sample lilbrary. I have at least three cases of sample disks that I’d like to convert before possibly selling them with the sampler. I really didn’t want to fire up […]



Seems like the perfect combo: A Hackintosh’d Dell Mini 9

« 23 February 2009 | 21:47 | Apple, Macintosh, Technology | No Comments »

For the longest time I’ve been considering a netbook. Why, for the obvious reasons…ultraportable computing and a good cross between a standard size laptop and the smaller Sony Vaio. I’ve had online discussions and tweets with Roddykat and Kenya and still really think about getting another high end Powerbook Aluminum or better yet cheap Macbook […]