I know. A story about problems with Dell and customer support aren’t new. I know about Jeff Jarvis, his experience and the “been there, done that” feel of another blogger writing about Dell issues. But coming back from a trip and finding my recently repaired Dell desktop failing to boot as has been the case [...]
With my desktop out of action, I’m currently on my new MacBook Pro as I’ve written, making use of its internal screen to run things on the Mac side and one of my external screens to run Windows apps. It annoys me that my two other monitors as you can see in the picture above [...]
Loving the new Macbook Pro. Simply loving it. OK, there are a lot of things I really dislike (no task bar, stupid keyboard shortcuts). I’ll get back to those later. But someone told me that the Mac is one of the best ways to run Windows XP, and they were totally correct. I have both [...]
Who knew that I would buy a Mac before finishing my yet-to-come “25 Reasons I Hate Apple” list. Yes, if hell is freezing over — if dogs and cats are playing together — if blackhat and whitehat SEOs are holding hands, perhaps I shifted the universe with my purchase. Here’s the deal. All the Search [...]
I was thinking about the $100 laptop project this morning, then amazingly there was news about it today, on how you can buy two with one to give away to those in need. The laptop is still priced above $100, there there’s no need to wait for that price to come down. Want to get [...]
I know Dell takes grief over their customer service. Heck, three or four years ago, I went through Dell Hell myself trying to get an order corrected. Despite that, I ended up ordering another computer with them. About a year ago, I came back from a trip and the system wouldn’t boot. I got a [...]
I almost bought a Macbook this weekend. It would be nice to see how the other 3 percent lives. I’m going to get all ranty on Apple and why I have such an irrational (to some) hatred of them, but let me start off with what inspired today’s post — the Official Google Mac Blog. [...]
I’m three hours into a marathon session of trying to get my computer to work again the way it used to before Microsoft shoved a ton of security updates at me. System Restore, my old trusty friend, hasn’t been able to help. That makes me think Microsoft has done some things to override how System [...]
I love spreadsheets. When I taught myself 1-2-3 years and years ago back in college, I had no idea how important they’d be to me. I used them all the time as a newspaper reporter, once even penning an article for the IRE Journal explaining how any reporter could tap into spreadsheets as an easy [...]
I have two external hard drives, my older Maxtor 5000DV 160GB unit and the newer LinkStation 250GB unit I got about a year ago. Until recently, the Maxtor was my main backup drive. I got the LinkStation mainly to work as a network print server, so that I could have one printer available to any [...]