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WHS 2003 issues — looking for suggestions

November 23, 2011 6 Comments
WHS 2003 issues — looking for suggestions

This is actually a problem I’ve been dealing with — or, more accurately, ignoring and working around — for a few months, at least, so I thought I’d put a post up here to see if anyone has come up with an actual fix. Back in July 2010, I bought an Acer Aspire easyStore Home […]

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Why Apple wins

October 27, 2011 1 Comment
Why Apple wins

Last spring, I bought an Apple TV device to go along with a new large-screen TV in our living room. Setup was simple, and I kept discovering new things that I could do with it. It gets used a lot more than either the Blu Ray player or the DirecTV satellite box also attached to […]

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So long, Steve, and Godspeed.

October 5, 2011 0 Comments
So long, Steve, and Godspeed.

The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving […]

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ZAGGmate case with keyboard for iPad 1 (review)

April 19, 2011 5 Comments
ZAGGmate case with keyboard for iPad 1 (review)

A few months back, I bought an iPad portfolio case with a built-in bluetooth keyboard from ThinkGeek. (No manufacturer name appears on the case, but I’ve seen what appears to be an identical case offered on Amazon by Kensington.) That case is set up much like a traditional iPad portfolio case — slide the iPad […]

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Almost persuaded to drop DirecTV [updated]

April 15, 2011 1 Comment
Almost persuaded to drop DirecTV [updated]

I love it when technology converges. The first key step was buying a Windows Home Server box last summer. It took me a while to get all the kinks out (read my review at the link), but since then it was worked pretty much trouble-free, 24/7. Not only do my various computers get backed up […]

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