(photo from Apple’s website) Anyone who knows me or reads my blogs (there might even be a few who fit in both categories), has to know i’m pretty keen on Apple products. I’m not quite “drank-the-apple-koolaid” keen, but in using them as much as i do, i usually find them to be better than the [...]
Archive for January, 2010
iPad: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the hype – oh, the hype
Posted: 28th January 2010 by tcg in Apple, hardware, software, technologyTags: Apple, hype, iPad
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Connect360 for Mac OS X: making sharing media files easier
Posted: 26th January 2010 by tcg in Mac OSX, software, technologyTags: Connect360, Mac, sharing digital media, xbox360
I’m all about trying to make it easier to get my media shared, and since the xbox360 is so capable of playing movies and music, i wanted to eliminate the task of transferring files from my Mac to a USB thumb drive and then plugging that into my xbox console. You see, as much as [...]
ORB and Privacy: Part Two – making it secure.
Posted: 17th January 2010 by tcg in Mac OSX, software, WindowsTags: MyCast, ORB, remote access, video sharing
Never one to leave questions hanging out there, i decided i needed to know if the security issues that i had discovered in ORB on a windows PC were the same on a Mac. Short Answer: Yep. Long answer… well, read on. Let me walk you through the install and setup on a Mac (the [...]
Orb: Great if you don’t like your privacy
Posted: 16th January 2010 by tcg in hardware, iphone, Mac OSX, technology, WindowsTags: iphone, Opera, ORB, privacy, Wii
We were over at my niece’s house and talking with her husband, got into a discussion about getting movies onto the Wii which led to discussing Opera on the Wii, and then ORB (www.orb.com) on a windows box streaming the movies to the Wii – and anyone else you wanted to share them with. The [...]
Easy fix to MS Outlook Contacts not appearing
Posted: 6th January 2010 by tcg in hardware, software, WindowsTags: MS Office, Outlook, pst files
If you’ve ever bought a new PC and copied your contacts and emails over from the old one to the new one (i do this often it seems, but for some reason have a mental block where the little dickens are hidden away), you have probably run into this little glitch, you know the one, [...]