Tag: "Computer Geekery"
R.I.P. Steve Jobs — Visionary, Genius, Maker of Lovely Things that Work Well
This is big news that just came across my Twitter feed. He was 56 years old. BREAKING: Apple says Steve Jobs has died.Wed Oct 05 23:36:26 via CoTweetThe Associated PressAP He had been battling pancreatic cancer for several months at least and was not doing well when he stepped down as CEO of Apple. Yesterday’s [...]
Come On Apple, Cut Me A Break, Huh?
If Apple’s new OS is going to require me to use the App Store for any new program I buy, I’ll ditch it so fast it leaves a sonic boom. Hopefully, I’ll be able to use Leopard for a good long time because, from the look of this writeup on the new OS called Lion, [...]
Science Geeks, Fire Up Your Browsers and Stock Up the Dew!
When I was a kid, I used to love leafing through my Dad’s old collection of Popular Science magazines. He didn’t have quite as many of them as he did National Geographic, but he had more than plenty to keep a curious Science Geek in Training busy for many hours*. I got away from PopSci [...]
I Have L’Amour for Technology
Oh how lightly we take the mighty power at our fingertips. Sometimes, it’s worth pausing to consider the everyday wonders we have at our fingert…oh, look! An orange singing opera!
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, Will You Do The TRS-80?
This is incredibly cool, even if you’re not a geek. If you are, you’ll probably miss half the song trying to identify all the equipment involved (the video maker provided the parts list at the video’s YouTube page) (via The Chorister)
Snow Leopard Without Leopard? Yes You Can!
Well, isn’t this interesting? Even though Apple suggests Mac users without Leopard buy the $169 Mac box set to get Snow Leopard, anyone can purchase the $29 Snow Leopard disc and install Snow Leopard in its entirety without having already installed Leopard. This means the $29 Snow Leopard DVD isn’t an “upgrade” at all; it’s [...]
Private Innovation Strikes Again!
This looks like it could be a pretty big deal, especially for people intertested in looking at bankruptcy filings (think that might be important with the current economic situation and this adminstration’s penchant for corruption?). Access to the nation’s federal law proceedings just got a public interest hack, thanks to programmers from Princeton, Harvard and [...]
What? No Blogging Today?
It turned out that a day that was supposed to be 60-ish degrees and raining in the afternoon was 70-ish and partly cloudy, which means that sitting inside and blogging took a distant third place to ridding the car of accumulated winter detritus and running a couple errands with the sunroof open. By the way, [...]
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