Archive for December, 2008

A little over a week ago, NVIDIA finally expanded their support of mobile chipsets with ForceWare drivers. Previously, only a couple of graphics cards in NVIDIA-powered laptops could use NVIDIA’s stock driver. Sure, there has always been laptopvideo2go.com (which hacks the desktop ForceWare drivers to work on laptops), but this has at times caused problems… [...]

So, you were all happy that the new HP MediaSmart home servers finally gave you a choice other than the anti-trust Time Capsule to do backups remotely… in the home. And, you are now ready to run out and buy one, blindfolds on to any compatibility issues. Sorry, I once again have to burst your [...]

The Crunchies nominees were announced yesterday. And, TechCrunches’s debacle of an award process has just gone critical. Not only did Crunchies delete every single comment which called into question many of this year’s tactics… but they ignored that the problems even happened. The Crunchies web site does not address any of the reasons for delay, [...]

While I’m usually say that store-bought Windows Home Servers are a bit of a waste… this new one has me questioning that. The new line of MediaSmart ex485 & ex487 “Encore” servers offer a few features that are new. Now, MediaSmart servers have always had additional enhancements like built-in virus scanning and media encoding… but [...]

Over Christmas, the wireless ISP link at my vacation home failed. It took 2.5 days to get the rural ISP to fix the relay point upstream… and I had to “re-educate” technicians about the problem several times. Looking at the lost productivity, even factoring out Christmas as a day off (despite my plan to give [...]

Here’s a Christmas gift I wasn’t expecting… Kega Fusion has been ported to Mac OS X! Kega Fusion is one of the most popular SEGA Genesis + CD + 32X emulators out there, and the developer has just finished porting it as his first Mac app. This really opens up a lot of potential for [...]

Unfortunately, time is running out for the Crunchies. They’re a week past-due with announcing the nominees, one of which may be MechaWorks. First, the Crunchies team announced that voting would begin last Monday. Then, they announced that voting was delayed, but would begin before the end of the week. Well, next week started… yesterday. Still [...]

Gotta point the finger of blame at The Unofficial Apple Weblog from dropping this link on my desk. Basically, there’s a grass roots effort to erase all applause from the final Apple-hosted Macworld Expo keynote, in protest of the lineup changes, and the outright abandonment of the show from Apple. Sound off in the comments. [...]

I’m writing this post so that people will not immediately jump to the typical Apple CEO Healthwatch, as the media will immediately fixate and drool on. As I’ve written on this blog many times, Macworld’s decay has stemmed from one key thing: Apple and IDG World Expo just do not get along. They haven’t gotten [...]

I’m really surprised at how many sites are “breaking” the rumor that there will be a new Mac mini at Macworld Expo. I was telling people at public meetings weeks ago that it was a lock for Macworld… and I’ve been talking about the new mini since the MacBook went GeForce 9400M. The Mac mini [...]