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Happy Holidays from Geeks R Us!

2009 has been a tenuous year for many of us. Some have been out of work, some have been on the verge of being out of work, many are starving while others are just plain nervous. While this sounds like a downer for a Holidays note, I urge us all to remind ourselves about what… Continue reading Happy Holidays from Geeks R Us!

AT&T’s Dropped Call App

Report dropped calls with AT&T’s new iPhone application. And yes, it will let you report them later when you’re back in an area with signal. iTunes Link

Google DNS breaks local screen sharing

If you set your Mac up to use Google’s new DNS service with IP 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4, you might find that you can no longer connect to other Macs on your local network with screen sharing. File sharing works, but screen sharing does not. Switching back to OpenDNS or Comcast DNS allows screen sharing to… Continue reading Google DNS breaks local screen sharing

Razer website fail

What’s with these idiotic companies whose management says “Hey, people like our mice, let’s put up a cyber monday deal. Let’s tell everyone ahead of time. Let’s only sell 300 items for $1. Let’s tell them it starts at 12am EST. Let’s run this deal on our $9/month web server. Let’s do this deal on… Continue reading Razer website fail

Dear Microsoft

“Dear Microsoft, I owe you an apology. For some time, decades in fact, I’ve often chided you for your products. I’ve poked fun at the quality and often sat agape with bewilderment as to why things were seemingly so awful. However recently things became clearer to me. I saw a couple of your advertisements on… Continue reading Dear Microsoft

Mac OS X 10.6.2 is shipping

I’ve been using 10.6.2 since 10.6.1 came out as a beta site and I can say this final release of 10.6.2 is very, very good. I’m sure some will have problems, that is par for the course, but for me: Boot time is much faster I can now run World of Warcraft and 10 other… Continue reading Mac OS X 10.6.2 is shipping

iMoo for the iPhone and iPod has shipped!

iMoo, a fun little iPhone/iPod app that lets you relive your fond childhood memories of a cow in a can is now available in the iTunes App Store! With iMoo you can have fun tipping your phone over to play your favorite moo, or you can record your own moo! Pass iMoo around to friends… Continue reading iMoo for the iPhone and iPod has shipped!

Windows 7 Upgrade experience – A tale of woe

I thought I’d post my upgrade experience from XP 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit. I had read that I’d need to install over a clean XP, so I formatted a 500MB drive in my Mac pro and installed XP last night. That failed, because the drive was formatted as a Mac volume, and… Continue reading Windows 7 Upgrade experience – A tale of woe

Microsoft Bing bug lets spammers through

BING! Another spammer passes their filter! BING! There is another one! “Microsoft works to fix a bug, discovered earlier this week by Webroot researchers, that let spammers piggyback onto Bing redirects and get through spam filters” Apparently, search results could take you to spam sites that look like the real site. Fun! I’ll stick with… Continue reading Microsoft Bing bug lets spammers through

SuperDuper 2.6.2 ships – Much faster!

Super Duper 2.6.2 ships as a free upgrade to 2.x owners and includes much better Snow Leopard support and is much faster at backing up!

DiskWarrior Check

Diagnosed Machine: MacBook Pro unibody 15″ 10.6.1 Diagnosed Drive: Internal 7200rpm Diagnosing Machine: Same via external boot drive Tools: DiskWarrior 4.2 directory repair Results: Some files had bad icons Some files had bad creation dates Some volume information was incorrect I replaced the directory to no immediate ill effects

Mercurial for source code management rocks

If you’re an engineer and use svn, but have not checked out mercurial do yourself a favor and do so. Basically, it is a kick ass source code control system that keeps everything in the working directory and supports distributed repositories. Can you say offline checkins? Sure, because there is no online! Everything is right… Continue reading Mercurial for source code management rocks

Yay for ClickToFlash

ClickToFlash is a great Safari plugin that blocks Flash from automatically loading and playing. All it takes is a single click to play the Flash. This will cause your pages to load faster, and crash less, if you are one of the many that believe the Flash plugin crashes often. This wonderful plugin goes even… Continue reading Yay for ClickToFlash

Application of the day: fseventer

Ever wanted to know which files are being opened on your Mac? Try fseventer You press the play button and it starts recording all fsevents. Press pause and it stops and gives you a tree diagram of all files accessed, renamed, etc. Every fsevent that happened! You can then filter the results to see what… Continue reading Application of the day: fseventer

Verizon wants metered internet

As reported by slashdot Verizon CEO Dick Lynch has said that ‘We’re going to have to consider pricing structures that allow us to sell packages of bytes, and at the end of the day the concept of a flat-rate infinitely expandable service is unachievable’ This kind of thinking is unacceptable, so I wrote them a… Continue reading Verizon wants metered internet

What’s on the Apple TV front?

There has been many rumors about a new Apple TV for some time now. Now we’re hearing about iMac and Mac Mini shortages, suggesting refreshes for those products are coming soon. So what is in store for the Apple TV? Always a hobby at Apple, the Apple TV is basically a stripped down Mac Mini… Continue reading What’s on the Apple TV front?

AT&T pleased with MMS launch – I’ve yet to send a MMS successfully

AT&T may be pleased with their MMS launch, but unless MMS stands for Missing Messaging Service, I can’t say I am pleased. I have yet to successfully send a video or photo to my brother, and he gets endless red exclamation marks in L.A. AT&T just says to “keep trying.” I’d hate to see what… Continue reading AT&T pleased with MMS launch – I’ve yet to send a MMS successfully