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Sorry for the super long post.  This ended up being a lot longer than i expected Given that I’m an Apple geek who loves gadgets and new technology it goes without saying that I picked up an iPad on launch day back in April. There is no shortage of reviews and demos of the iPad [...]

Finally!  The wait is over.  My $750 iPhone on steroids finally arrived this morning.  I must have been smokin’ crack when I decided that was the best thing to do with my money but none the less it is a pretty cool device.  Will the “oooh shinny” factor wear off quickly?  Time will tell but [...]

And now for something completely different….  I’ve mentioned before that I like it when my hobbies and interests collide, and one of my hobbies is shooting.  I shoot rifles and handguns for fun and sometimes competition.  At SHOT in Las Vegas Magpul, who make a lot of nice tactical weapon accessories, announced several new products, [...]

Well, it was formally announced.  The Apple tablet…the iPad…is here.  Like every other major announcement the reviews range from the Apple fanatics that love it no matter what to those that point out every single thing it doesn’t have, or was supposed to have depending on where you get your rumors.  It doesn’t have a [...]

It’s not unusual for a columnist to write an edgy piece and buck the norms and trends of an industry.  Sometimes they truly feel this way, sometimes it’s for hits, and sometimes it’s just to be the guy that’s different and if you’re right you hope to look like a genius (I’m looking at you [...]

I use my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro all the time. As a consultant it goes everywhere with me and I run a lot of different applications all at the same time. I’m happy with the 2.53GHz Core2Duo CPU and 4GB of RAM (though I want to up it to 8GB) the hard drive is [...]

So today Google announced new pricing for storage.  So if you need 16TB for Picasa or Gmail, they have you covered.  It’s cheap too…  16TB is $4096.  By the way, kudos for the Base-2 pricing, I love it.  I hope we see more of this in the future.  I’d love for Apple to let me [...]

I’m sure there are a lot of consultanty-type people out there like me that use Macs and WWAN adapters. One little reported feature of Snow Leopard is that it now directly supports a lot of WWAN adapters. This means you no longer need to use your cell providers software. This let me [...]

My worlds collide!  Great little tool for those EMC (and soon other arrays) people out there.  SANCalc is an iPhone/iPod Touch tool that lets you size up RAID Groups, LUNs, etc right on your phone.  It even understands Vault Drives.  Right now it supports the EMC CLARiiON AX4-5, CX3, and CX4 arrays.  Very handy.
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As reported here and here AT&T released their new 3G MicroCell yesterday in the Charlotte test market.  Hey!  That’s where I live!  I’ve been waiting on this device for a while.  Ask anyone I work with how my cell coverage is at home and you’ll find out it’s abysmal.  Calls are short, frustrating, and futile.  [...]

Snow Leopard is just the gift that keeps on giving!  For only $29 (or $49 for a Family Pack) it’s a great deal.  I applaud Apple for releasing an update with the primary focus being on speed and efficiency with some nice minor feature enhancements thrown in.  It’s much smoother and faster on both my [...]

After helping someone recover data from a corrupt virtual machine last night I thought this would be informative to many people.  A lot of us Mac users still have to run WIndows for one reason or another.  If you do I highly suggest you look at VMware’s Fusion that allows you to run it as [...]

Taking a different view on things tonight….  I just got back from the gym and as usual, used my iPhone while doing cardio for music and podcasts.  There are some really interesting podcasts out there for the technology  geek and it’s a great way to stay caught up or learn something new without sitting in [...]

If you use a Mac, and you should, for presentations you should check out the new Keynote Remote app for the iPhone.  It’s a very slick tool for controlling presentations and lets you view your notes right on your phone.  Available here.  It requires the new iWork ‘09 which was also released today.  The 30-day [...]