Well, it looks like it was just the power adapter after all, thankfully. The guys at MBS left the MacBook connected to a known good power supply overnight, and eventually it charged up. Plus, I got my new power supply via Airborne this morning— and surprisingly enough, they actually rang the doorbell and handed it …
Even better than Macintel, I am enjoying the new acronym ICBM— in this case meaning Intel Chip Based Mac. Which begs the question: Is it really an acronym if you can’t actually pronounce it, or is it then just an abbreviation? If so, is there another special term for those? (rummage). Well, looks like Merriam …
So, yay! —upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Expecting the minions of hell to overrun my system any time now, but for the moment, it feels good, it feels clean. I hope the spammers aren’t drawn to its scent. Colophon’s screwed up, but… Meh. I’ll fix it at some point. It’s probably not even accurate anymore.
Soon after I had plugged in my brand new MacBook Pro, it died. Sorta. Film at 11. UPDATE As best we can piece it together, what happened was this: Thursday morning, when I first plugged in the MagSafe connector from the power adapter, it went from green to red, not amber like I thought. I …
It finally shipped!
My first 48 hours with the new Intel CoreDuo Mac mini have unfortunately been somewhat disappointing. Don’t get me wrong—The mini itself is great, I love Front Row, and the fact that I’ve got an optical audio out built-in instead of an Edirol box hanging off the side of the mini is amazing. (BTW, if …
Here, I was, all ready to do a clever video tutorial on how to use Handbrake to rip video from your DVDs to your 5G iPod (aka, iPod with video), and I see there’s a clever app called iSquint that is optimized for doing just that. Except— wait. No it isn’t. You’d have to decrypt …
