Yikes: Build A Fusion Reactor
I’ve tried a few thing to cut our electricity cost. I’ve priced out both a solar and wind powered system to power all of the computers we have in the house that run around the clock. I’ve also added timers everywhere to help with the soaring cost of electricity in our neck of the woods. [...]
VMWare Fusion 2.06
VMware rolled out another update today to their uber popular virtualization software for the mac, Fusion. The update, which was officially released yesterday, includes multiple fixes for running Fusion in a 32-bit Snow Leopard environment. Besides the usually assortment of bug fixes the release also includes enhancements for better 3D performance on Macs with Nvidia [...]
Mac Error Confusion
Last month I was in Vancouver for a round of taping of the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show when this somewhat odd error window pop’s up on my screen. “The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute.” I have never in my years seen this one, [...]
Apple’s market share hits 17.6 percent
With all of the iPhone hype over shadowing Apple’s primary financial source, their notebooks and desktops, consumers are clearly still interested in the company’s bread and butter. Data from one market research firm shows Apple’s notebook business broke 17 percent while another research firm says that Apple is now in third place among computer manufactures. [...]
iMobimac: Finally tethering for the Blackberry
The loud cries of the Mac Blackberry faithful have finally been heard. Where is our dial-up networking? We are paying for data service on these things called Blackberries and it’s EVDO, and everyone else is doing it, why not us? Now you could tether the unit in Windows via Parallels or VMWare fusion, but it’s [...]
First Looks: VMWare Fusion
In preparation for my monthly trips to Vancouver to appear on the Lab with Leo I installed the latest and greatest for the Mac from VMWare, Fusion. Suffice to say that only using this product for only the past 12 hours has already lead me to completely remove my install of Parallels. Now don’t get [...]
