Archives for the 'Apple' Category
Sony VAIO Z with auto switching dual video cards
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Brad
Yo Apple, pay attention! Sony has a new VAIO Z series coming out that has dual video cards (one NVIDIA® GeForce® GT330M graphics chipset with 1GB GDDR3 VRAM and one Intel integrated HD chipset) with a physical switch that has an “auto” mode that allows the system to automatically switch video cards based on usage.
The [...]
iPhone double tap for period feature
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Brad
Every operating system in existence should have the iPhone’s double-tap-spacebar-to-place-a-period-then-start-a-new-sentence feature. I find myself trying to use it while typing emails and stuff in Outlook at work and other various applictions. It’s a very natural mechanic.
How-to: Rename a batch of files in 10.6 Snow Leopard
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Brad
If this How-to looks familiar it’s because I wrote a similar How-to back in April of ‘09. That How-to used an Automator workflow that was saved as a Finder plug-in and enabled you to select multiple files and then control-click those files and choose an action from the “more” sub-menu and from there the Automator [...]
Why is a Droid on Verizon better exactly?
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Brad
I’m trying to figure out why, after doing just a little research, anyone would pick the Motorola Droid on Verizon over an iPhone on AT&T. Recently there’s been a couple commercials that state that Verizon has a “better” network than AT&T and that you should choose your network first and then choose a phone. Well, [...]
Documentaries, Captain Crunch, and Apple Computers
Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Jon
Yeah, they actually do have something in common. I watched “Welcome to Macintosh”, a somewhat light documentary about Apple and how they got to where they are. While the film just barely scratched the surface at what has happened over the years, it did provide some insight into the 30+ years of the evolution of [...]