I was thinking the other day, you know what my site needs? More rants. That is exactly what I bring you today cause I am finally fed up with something in the technology industry. What exactly am I fed up with? Well, a lot of things, but this particular post is about the complete disregard …
June 11, 2010 – 09:48
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By Rothgar
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Posted in Android, PDA, Review, Thoughts, iOS, webOS
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Tagged Android, Apple, comparison, google, iOS, palm, webOS
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It was fun doing this last year. So I thought I would have another go at it and see what I come up with. Computers: 1. Netbooks/sub-12″ laptops will be even bigger than before because they will finally be useful. Atom/ULV processors, Ion/Tegra graphics, and touch enabled devices will make having a 17″ laptop a …
January 1, 2010 – 12:47
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By Rothgar
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Posted in Apple, Automotive, Microsoft, Thoughts, Video Games
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Tagged 2010, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, predictions, Video Games
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I thought I would follow up on my predictions for last year and see how I did. Computers: 1. Multitouch – While this didn’t make as big of a push as I hoped, hardware development is very slow in a recession, there have been announcements of hardware coming out in 2010 that defiantly take advantage …
January 1, 2010 – 11:36
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By Rothgar
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Posted in Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Thoughts, Video Games, Zune
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Tagged 2009, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, predictions, Video Games
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After my post on modifying default user settings in Vista I thought I should follow up with how to accomplish a similar thing in OSX. For OSX there is only one way to accomplish this, and that way is the manual way. Just like with the manual way in Vista set up two user accounts, …
Of course the easy answer is yes, and I know that when you buy DRM’d music (or even non-DRM’d CD’s) you technically don’t “own” the music. You just own the rights to play the music. I thankfully have never bought a single song from iTunes but their announcement about paying to free your library of …
I have never done this before but I thought I would take a swing and making some predictions at what I think is going to happen this year with technology. Computers: 1. Smaller, faster, better. Duh. That is obvious but I think there will be some big improvements in “alternate” input for computers. Apple is …
January 1, 2009 – 12:46
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By Rothgar
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Posted in 7, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, PDA, Thoughts, Ubuntu, Video Games
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Tagged 2009, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, predictions, Video Games
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I saw this at The Unofficial Apple Weblog and thought it was nice because I hate that you can’t see what folder you are in by default. Open a terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES And you have your location at the top of the window. I don’t even have a Apple …
I bought the mac mini for a few reasons: 1. It is very small and very quiet 2. It looks good with my AV equipment 3. There are a lot of accessories that match the looks of the mini 4. It came with good enough specs for video playback and recording The main problem I …
November 17, 2008 – 22:57
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By Rothgar
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Posted in MythTV, OSX, Projects, Review, Thoughts
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Tagged diy, dvr, htpc, Linux, MythTV, pvr, Stupid Apple
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After my last post I realized I have never explained (or documented for myself) how to create a user template in OSX. The best how-to I found was on Jim Epler’s Blog which I found via google. Here are his steps slightly modified 1. Tweak your default account including setting dock, clearing cache, recent items, …
We decided to have our Apple computers joined to our Active Directory server so we have a little more control and our users have a little more continuity and features when using different machines. We also finally figured out how to set up a user template similar to Windows default user profile. A problem we …