The Christmas season is nearly upon us (if we go by the music they're playing in most retail stores, it's already here), and as usual I'm already scheming on what to get for my family and closest friends. And of course, they're all asking me what I want as well. And for the first time in a long time, I'm really stumped.

Usually by this time, there's ( Read more... )

So, as a lot of you know, my wife is having a baby soon. By soon, I mean she's full term, so literally any day now.

Now, I consider myself a fairly modern, tech-savvy kind of guy. I've got a Twitter account and a Facebook account. I listen to tech podcasts. Heck, I've even got a blog (though admittedly I don't post very often).

So, given that a lot ( Read more... )

I had such high hopes for MacWorld Expo 2010. And not unrealistic hopes, I thought. I believed the pundits who said that the focus of MacWorld was just going to have to shift from Apple's big keynote to a place for Mac fans to gather together. I was inspired by Paul Kent's encouraging words about the upcoming Expo on MacBreak Weekly. I believed the ( Read more... )

It's been a little over a week since the announcement of Apple's iPad. On the day of the event, I listened to the live feed from TWiT.tv with bate breath. Afterwards, I watched the Quicktime video of the event and pored over the iPad specs page. In the days that followed, I listened to what various pundits had to say about it and mulled over the ( Read more... )

So, here we are, on the eve of Apple's Big Announcement (see Gizmodo's copy of the invite). It's all I've heard for months on the various tech podcasts I listen to, and the speculation has reached a fever pitch in the last 2 weeks since CES. Everyone's making predictions about what this revolutionary product will be (it's Apple, so it's got to be ( Read more... )

I'm on a quest. Not for the Holy Grail, but for a solid, high-capcity replacement battery for the one currently in my 15" MacBook Pro (which doesn't seem to be able to hold a charge anymore).

Not as easy as it may seem. This is a pretty popular laptop, and a lot of people are making replacement batteries for it.

My criteria:

• high capacity
• decent ( Read more... )

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