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Storage is power.
A few years ago when we upgraded our servers at work to greater capacity - some 200 gigabytes (gB) if I recall - I asked our head of IT what the word was for the next greater unit of storage.
Why, a Terabyte (tB), came the reply. That’s 1,000 gB.
Who would ever need […]

A great source for Indie films.
You can read about my experiences with Apple TV here.
One of the criticisms leveled against Apple TV is that the movie download library is small, and while it will doubtless grow with time, the criticism is justified.
Well, there’s another download service which specializes in Independent movies - smaller budget productions […]

Great idea, lousy quality, poor design.
The quality of construction is poor, my first one was faulty, it costs too much, the color doesn’t match but I use it daily.
That’s the BookEndz docking station for the MacBook in a nutshell.
For reasons solely known to Steve Jobs, Apple has not made docking stations for its laptops in […]

Finally worked this out. And forget about Time Machine.
Since installing that monster hard drive in my MacBook, daily automated scheduled back-ups have become very simple. The internal drive is simply cloned to a like-sized Lacie mains-powered drive which makes its home out of sight somewhere in the office. I think it’s in […]

Some more thoughts
I wrote of my first experience with Apple TV a while back. Since that time Apple has provided enhanced software which makes the device capable of downloading movies and TV shows.

That adds real value as the wife was getting a tad upset when the home’s DVD collection crossed the 500 count. My argument […]

This time a yet larger hard drive
When I bought my MacBook I opted for the bottom of the line configuration. The last I checked, Apple does not make disk drives or RAM so there was little point in paying up for the maxed-out version. How many levels of mark-ups do you want to pay […]