Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Hulu today has finally taken the veil of secracy off of the new Hulu Plus subscription.
This is something I have been waiting for. I’m not a big fan of television and I very much dislike shelling out over $100 a month to our cable company for the few shows I watch. Now that I will have access to Hulu Plus from the iPad, iPhone and more devices with a much larger selection of episodes I can finally ditch the cable television service (hopefully my wife agrees).
Today my boss came into my office and told me that I need to start blogging. I figured no problem, and then I realized why I never did it in the first place. I never really have anything to write about. Well I am going to change that I am going to start posting about tech that I am currently using, evaluating and deploying at work for both our company and our clients. It seems that is what the boss wanted me to blog about anyway, so it’ll work out in the end.
I will be working on the design of the site as well. I’ve started work on my first custom wordpress theme, but I am still having some issues with it and styling is not my strong area.
This is a fairly simple process, but not everybody knows how to accomplish it.
1: Put the CD or DVD into the drive
2: Open Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities)
3: Select the disk, not the media
4: Select File -> New -> Disk Image (It should be the name of the disk you want to make an ISO of)
5: Select CD/DVD master from the “image format” drop down
6: Click save
7: This creates a .cdr extension which is the same as a .iso Just rename the file to .iso and your all done.
Today is the day that all my packages arrive. I am very exited. I broke down and ordered a Black MacBook 
with AppleCare and a MobileMe – Family Pack. I figured I didn’t need the power of the MacBook Pro yet, and I can wait until after MacWorld to get one if I decide that I need the power. I also wanted to save the extra money I would of spent on the MacBook Pro and use it toward the best package of them all.
The baby is coming home today. The 5 day long hospital stay is finally coming to an end, and little Juliana will finally get to come home and see her room and all of her toys and clothes. I can’t believe how much more stuff we have gotten since the baby was born. It seemed that everyday I came home I had another car full of stuff to bring into the house.
Technorati Tags: Apple, apple care, Family, MacBook, MacBookPro, mobileme
Tags: Apple, apple care, Family, MacBook, MacBookPro, mobileme
I first saw this posted via twitter by Cali Lewis. She posted it on Geek Brief TV. The picture is from a French Blog. Now I don’t speak French, but I do speed geek and the picture is lust worthy.
Now this is just another “leaked” picture which will more then likely turn out to be fake, but it has sealed my decision to wait for the 14th to purchase my new MacBook Pro. Just in case it’s real. From what you can see in the image below, is a new beveled edge and black keyboard which makes it look a lot more like the MacBook Air. Also is the much rumored glass trackpad with multi-touch. I’m not too sure I would like for the dock to be part of the multi-touch trackpad. I believe it would get in the way of normal use.
New MacBook Pro?
Technorati Tags: Apple, Leak, MacBookPro, Rumor
Tags: Apple, Leak, MacBookPro, Rumor
One thing that I rely heavily on is my Google Calendar and I was none too happy when I couldn’t easily sync it with my iPhone or iPhone 3G.
So I stumbled across a nice site called nuevasync. The site says it’s in Beta, but I signed up and was granted immediate access. So it’s not the web 2.0 beta I was expecting where I would need an invite code.
Once I was signed up and read through the privacy policy I gave the access to my Google Calendar and proceeded to setup my iPhone via their instructions.
I then disabled my calendar syncing to Mobile Me and within seconds had all my information from Google Calendar in the native iPhone calendar app.
Now it is very basic syncing, I don’t have all the different colored calendars like I have in my Google Calendar so I can identify what everything is with a quick glance, but at least all the information is synced up with the iPhone so I don’t have to rely on Edge, 3G, or WiFi to check my calendar online.
It also looks like you should be able to setup this sync with any phone that supports Exchange.
Technorati Tags: Calendar, Google, HowTo, iPhone, Sync
Tags: Calendar, Google, HowTo, iPhone, Sync
The folks over at Gizmodo have posted that 6 placeholder SKUs have shown up in the Inventory System of Future Shop a division of Best Buy.
Future Shop Mac SKU Place Holders
The fact that there are 6 place holder SKUS would lead one to believe that new MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s are on the way for the much rumored October 14th announcement.
I have made it two days so far without ordering my new MacBook Pro. I want to order it now, but am trying very hard to wait to see if there are any truth’s to all these rumors I keep posting about. It’s almost like I’ve become an Apple Rumor blog.
If you have any ideas of want to weigh in on the possibility of new MacBook & MacBook Pros feel free to do so in the comments.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Future Shop, MacBook, MacBookPro, Placeholder, Rumor
Tags: Apple, Future Shop, MacBook, MacBookPro, Placeholder, Rumor
Mac Soda claims to have knowledge of the new video card Apple will use in the new MacBooks. nVIDIA’s MCP7A-U is an integrated chipset, but don’t let that turn you off. It packs features such as low-power consumption, and HDMI-Out.
read more | digg story
Technorati Tags: Apple, Graphics, MacBook, MacBookAir, MacBookPro, Nvidia, Rumor
Tags: Apple, Graphics, MacBook, MacBookAir, MacBookPro, Nvidia, Rumor
According to tuaw the German retailer T-Systems (a division of Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile) which sells Apple computers posted a few new items for sale today which were then taken down shortly after everybody started talking about them. The new systems they posted may possibly be the new MacBook Pros based on the specs, and the picture posted.
Possible new MacBook Pro
The specs were listed as having either a 2.5GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard disk, and an nVidia GF 8600M GT video card. The interesting thing is that the prices listed when the item was still visible showed the prices being much cheaper then the current models. The Apple store starts with 1799 € for the MacBookPro while T-Com has systems for 1402€ (15″ – 2.4GHz-models). Larger systems are also much cheaper (1973€ vs. 2499€ for 17″).
I’m personally hoping that they announce new MacBook Pro’s soon. I am holding off on buying one, because I don’t want to buy it, and then have a new one come out a few weeks later. The other rumor’s I’ve heard point to an October 14th announcement.
People are all worried that the Large Hardron Collider will bring about the end of the world. Personally I think the experiment will be safe. What I do worry about is some hacker group penetrating the security of the network, and messing around with things.
This exact scenario played out between September 9th & 10th at CERN. A group calling themselves Greek Security Team was able to deface one of the sites that is part of the LHC network. The site has been since unreachable to the public.
You can read the entire story here.
Technorati Tags: hack, LHC
Tags: hack, LHC
