computers

Apple’s War on Tech Specs

June 8, 2010

I’ve been meaning to jot down my thoughts on Apple’s continued assault on technical specifications.  There was a time where people really cared about *HZ (Hz, MHz, GHz, whatever) and RAM and cache size and blah blah.  Because computers used to suck.  Now they don’t.  Apple knows that we’re reaching a point of computing where [...]

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Apple vs. Adobe (or Thoughts on Section 3.3.1)

April 30, 2010

This post started life as a voice memo on April 13th, a few days after Apple announced the iPhone 4 OS and unleashed the much bandied about section 3.3.1 (“no 3rd party development platforms”) rule in the new iPhone SDK Agreement.  Since Steve Jobs himself decided to weigh in on this point, I figured it [...]

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Backup and Archive SDHC Cards

September 12, 2009

Continuing with my backup and archiving strategy, one of my goals was to get a grip on the growing number of SDHC cards I use with my video cameras; mainly my Canon HF10.  I’ve been ordering about five 4GB cards every couple months.  Besides being small and easy to lose, they are difficult to label and [...]

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Setup Time Machine on FreeNAS

September 5, 2009

Update 11/27/2009 — As HarryD notes in the comments, FreeNAS 0.7 (which was still in RC at time of this writing and did not contain this feature) allows a much easier way to setup Time Machine using AFP.  See his post here.  I’ve not tested this feature in 0.7 and currently using the approach as follows. [...]

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