chronobits

Last week I heard a violent clicking noise coming from my laptop. When I rebooted and saw folder with question mark emblazoned on it, I immediately knew my hard drive was screwed. I powered down my MacBook Pro hoping in my heart that the next restart...

Being a self-confessed technophile, I tend to pounce upon anything new and slick. While some people feel buyer's remorse, I feel late-adopter's regret. My most current pang of regret happened recently when Apple pulled the app NetShare by NullRiver from...

I understand that both Apple and Microsoft are evil. I find their maliciousness manifests itself in different ways. While Apple locks me with DRM'ed iTunes tracks, AppleTV, iPhone, and integrated iLife apps, I'm willing to forgive them. Its like having...

My battle against application creep wages on. There have been some heavy losses. In moment of weakness I  installed Microsoft Office 2008. I haven't used it yet, although some the chart templates in Word are tempting. Windows XP inflicted the greatest...

After a week of waiting, my MacBook Pro is finally here. It has been five years since I last plunked down some change to get a G4 Powerbook. The G4's hard drive had less than a gigabyte in space, the lower RAM slot was fried, and the warped case would pop...