I have been using Dish Network DVR for the past couple of months now that I've been living at home again. It works OK but I have a couple of complaints against it. First it doesn't seem to be very intelligent when it comes to automatic recording. It works best when what is playing totally jives with the TV Guide schedule but if it doesn't you end ( Read more... )

Someone at the Mac Users LJ community was asking what people thought of the current Mac Mini with Superdrive. Some of them said things like, "My friend told me that it's only good for light web surfing and word processing and it can't even handle streaming video". That's simply untrue.... I've had the older Mac Mini since 2005 and it can do those ( Read more... )

There's some rumblings on the internet about a recent job posting for "Touch interface QA personnel". This has lead people to speculate that Apple is going to release the "Mac Touch" soon. On the surface it may sound good but I also am not positive about other things like the graphics card situation ( Read more... )

I'd get this one... it's a GeForce 8800 GT and it's around 200-250 bucks. They say it offers a good value because it's cheaper and it's even better than some of the more expensive cards in some ways. Kind of makes me glad I wasn't able to buy an 8600 or below when they first came out. By the time I can get something they'll have something even ( Read more... )

I was out today with my family. We did the usual things we do when they come over. That's go out and eat and do other things like shopping. They got me the new apple keyboard for my Mac (the wired one). It took about zero minutes for me to get used to typing with it compared to the older keyboard.. I just have to get used to how they rearranged the ( Read more... )

Here they talk about a new keyboard that Apple is supposed to be making for the new iMac coming soon. While the keyboard on the MacBook does look nice I wouldn't like it if they just made it like they chopped it off and put it on the iMac. The new keyboard should have all the keys that the old keyboard has and it should have less area around the ( Read more... )