Archive for January, 2009
« Previous EntriesIntelliScanner Mini Makes Fast Work of Collection Cataloging
Friday, January 30th, 2009Maybe it’s just a geek thing, but I love to database stuff. Lists, catalogs, and data sets that can provide good useful reports are catnip to me. Whether it’s a complete rundown of all my DVDs, my books on British history, all the songs I have loaded into iTunes, or the growing stack of comics [...]
iPhoto ‘09 – Putting Faces Through Its Paces
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009I spent last night installing iLife ‘09 and trying out the Faces facial recognition feature in the new version of iPhoto. The usability in the application is excellent. I’m a terrible one for reading instructions. My preference is to just jump in and see how much of a device or piece of software I can [...]
Quick, Easy Access to Bare Hard Drives
Monday, January 26th, 2009I’ve had remarkably good luck with hard drives in my years of computing experience. Almost always, another part of a system dies on me first, and if not easily replaced, I’m looking to port the data on the still good drive some where else. This past weekend, I had the opportunity to use a nifty [...]
GeekBrief.TV Hits #500
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Today marks the release of GeekBrief.TV’s 500th episode. If you’ve never seen Geek Brief, you should stop reading this right now and go watch it. It’s one of the longest running and most influential video podcasts on the web. Although, nominally a show about gadgets and new technology (and it’s an excellent source of such [...]
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