17" MacBookPro is a good deal

The 17″ MacBook Pro was announced today at NAB for $2800. It has the following differences from the high-end 15.4″ MacBook Pro ($2500 retail): 17″ 1680×1050 display vs. 15.4″ 1440×900 display (my current 1.5Ghz Powerbook G4 is a 17″ 1440×900 display). Firewire 800 an extra USB port 8x dual layer SuperDrive instead of a 4x […]

Taking your Aperture keywords with you

Here is a small Aperture tip I forgot to mention. I work on Aperture on two machines, my Powerbook G4 and my girlfriend’s PowerMac G5 when I can sneak in some time. One problem I ran into was finding that the keywords (and also various export settings) I have set up in Aperture are not […]

Adobe Flash Player 8.5b1

If you have a Macintosh, don’t install Adobe Flash Player beta (formerly Macromedia Flash). It will crash Safari (and other applications that use the entire WebKit like DEVONthink) after my Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.4.6) wakes from sleep.

Considering an entry level camera

I received an e-mail today about a new camera purchase. Here is an excerpt: About the camera stuff, I am in the market for a “prosumer” digital camera and considering the Canon Rebel XT (350D). I think it’s quite a bit lower level than the D70 but do you have any thoughts on the camera […]

Immigrants are the new gay

Conservative blogger, John Cole, has an insightful article on immigration being the new wedge issue for the midterm elections. It is weird because I thought that this was an issue that would just backfire against the Republicans. Hispanics, after all, are not voting “traditionally democrat” anymore than Catholics are (I believe the numbers in the […]