One thing I hate about my iMac is having to feel around behind it to plug in a USB cable or thumb drive. Aukey has an inexpensive solution that matches Apple’s aluminum design, offering three USB 3.0 ports plus and RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port. Not bad for 20 bucks.
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According to Apple’s Senior VP of Marketing, having an older computer is shameful. You know what I think is shameful? That attitude. In fact, I think it’s downright harmful.
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I don’t know what it is about Macs and optical drives. Anything recent from Apple has ditched the optical drive altogether and when Macs and MacBooks did ship with the drives, that was always the first component to fail. If your Mac’s optical drive bit the dust (or it never came with one), LG’s portable USB DVD Writer is an inexpensive workaround that doesn’t require a costly replacement.
Continue ReadingBeauty and power together with this week’s Geekaway–the iMac 5k Retina Display Giveaway Contest.
Continue ReadingWith the latest round of super thin iMacs it introduced last year, Apple did away with optical drives in its all-in-one desktop PCs. Good riddance, so far as I’m concerned. In my experience, the optical drive is often the first …
Continue ReadingI began working in children’s media not long after Steve Jobs returned to Apple. Those were the days of CD-ROMs, when we had to fight those who controlled the purse strings to allow us to make Mac-compatible games even though it was such a small part of the computer market. There was always a sense […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been writing quite a bit in recent years, especially in the past two years as I’ve transitioned from part time to full time writing. A quick look at the output from last year comes in at over 500,000 words …
Continue ReadingA few disclaimers up front. I am Canadian; Stratford, Ontario (the same city that spawned Justin Bieber) is my home town; I have stacks of comic books squirreled away throughout the house; I’m all over (most) comic book inspired movies, …
Continue ReadingOne of the things about being a guy who’s fairly deeply immersed in technology -who frequently tests electronics, gadgets, gizmos, gear and games- is that there’s a certain expectation among some people that the inside of my home resembles an …
Continue ReadingAs someone who has subscribed to National Geographic frequently through the years, amassed several shelves of the magazine, reaches for it first at any dentist office visit (my dentist doesn’t subscribe to Wired) and continues to make use of the …
Continue ReadingI don’t know how you spent the extra hour gained over the weekend thanks to Daylight Saving Time, but I was taking care of a few outdoor winterizing odds and ends. Packing up the trailer and filling its plumbing lines …
Continue ReadingNow that we’re officially in summer, I’m hoping it’s safe to look back on what’s been an interesting spring around my household, especially when it comes to technology. Interesting, in this case, being a euphemism for aggravating and bloody expensive. …
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