Archive for December, 2009

Seems like every few months we get an Apple update that fixes the problem that certain MacBook users get where the first letter typed does not appear. it happened again after the 10.6.1. update for me and looks like Apple has acknowledged the problem again, and issued a firmware update for the keyboard, again. Check [...]

You have to just believe

Posted: 26th December 2009 by tcg in Uncategorized
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“I told you there was no Santa Claus”. These words rang out from my daughters lips during a family viewing of the movie “Four Christmases” after Vince Vaughn’s character makes a comment about there not being a Santa, and I tried not to react but it hit me, that was the end of the magic [...]

Christmas and Tech

Posted: 22nd December 2009 by tcg in technology
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The past few years around our house have been pretty tech-centric and it’s shaping up that this year will be no different. I won’t get into specifics just in case someone in the house decides to read my blog.  That would be a terrible way to spoil the surprise. I’m not sure if it’s a [...]

I have to admit, at first I thought “meh, I’ll never use it, but it’s good to have”. I’m talking of course about the app I’m typing this on WordPress for iPhone and I find it to be extremely handy.  Yep, i admit it, i was wrong. I was using version 1.2 and just as I [...]

32-bit in a 64-bit world

Posted: 8th December 2009 by tcg in Apple, hardware, Mac OSX, software
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I was about to update a program i use quite often and had the option of grabbing the 64-bit version or the 32-bit version, and thats when i realized i wasn’t sure if i was running 64-bit or not.  Snow Leopard is a 64-bit OS but does not natively boot into 64-bit out of the [...]