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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Need a (free) web based movie player?
Here’s the skinny…
If you hadn’t heard, my sister and brother in law just had (well, he’s 1 now) a baby boy, congrats!. Given how tech savvy they both are they take a ton of movies and photos and post them online for relatives from all around the country to watch. This is an awesome way [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Playing Around, Web by Aaron
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Out with the Mac, in with the Samsung!
So as I’ve written before, I’ve had plenty of problems with my (work) computer, and below is just another example. I have no idea why, no idea how but any CD I insert into my Macbook Pro just gets spat right back out. How annoying!
Anyways, myself and a couple of friends went in on a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Rant by Aaron
Monday, February 9th, 2009
PS3++
So this weekend I decided to install linux on my PS3 (more on that later), so what better time to upgrade the hard drive! I commend Sony on making swapping out the drive so easy. Because it literally is that easy. Before you start, be sure to backup your data via System [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets, Playing Around by Aaron
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
The first program I might actually buy for my phone.
So most of the apps for my phone thus far have been free. But recently I came into possession of a (trial!) program of panoman. The user interface for it is insanely easy. So far I’ve only used it twice but the results have been extremely awesome. Example below! Especially check out the high-res [...]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Nokia, Ovi and my phone
So in a previous post I mentioned my recent acquisition of a Nokia N78 phone. Like I said, I wanted something not super expensive; yet something I could play around with. The N78 just happened to be the right fit. At any rate I don’t think I have the patience to write up an all-out [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets by Aaron
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
MacBuntu
It’s done! I now finally have ubuntu on my MacBook Pro(4,1)! The initial partitioning of my drives (in order to keep my bootcamp’d windows and os x) was made out to be a lot harder than it actually was. I wasn’t quite sure what to do due to the fact that OS X seems very [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets, Rant by Aaron
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
rEFItting the Mac
If you don’t know, Ubuntu 8.10 dropped today. As promised I will be attempting to install it this evening. I say “attempting” because you never know what might go wrong. Anyways, I came across an awesome program called rEFI that enables you to actually control and partition your mac hard drive without [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
3 More Days
If you can’t tell… I’m really excited about throwing ubuntu on here, and my Mac must be too… since it keeps hinting that it wants to be fixed (image below). I even plan on ordering some [3D] stickers and a physical copy of the OS!
2 Comments » - Posted in Rant by Aaron
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
More Mac Woes
So this morning I woke up and decided to check my email. Oh look, there’s a few messages I would like to move to another folder! Apparently Mac Mail decided to make this difficult for me, oh well at least it just works.
Note: Not only is the drop target range very slim, but [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Rant by Aaron
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Taking the plunge
I know I’ve talked a lot of talk to those who are constantly around myself and my Mac, so I’m finally going to do something about it. In 15 days I’m vowing to take the pluge and attempt to toss ubuntu on my bootcamp partition. Lets hope it works