I bought a used iMac on eBay. 24″, 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo, and about $300 less than what it would cost to buy the same thing refurbished from Apple. This one also is covered by AppleCare. It came to me with 10.5.2 Leopard installed, so I erased the disk and am installing 10.6 Snow…Continue Reading…
People aren’t comfortable when the problem isn’t given. This semester, I’m the Lab Assistant for ITP 499, iPhone App Development. This week, I felt that my style doesn’t mesh with the students. They care about definite assignments. They want to know exactly what to do, and exactly when they are done. But when I build…Continue Reading…
An Ajax-powered, browser-based text editor with syntax highlighting, speed and source code. And it’s installable at your own domain, in your own webspace. Awesome. I like web-based stuff. Nowadays it’s commonplace for people to run multiple browsers at once, just because they’re using so many different web apps simultaneously. It’s this month’s Dreamhost Site of…Continue Reading…
This was harder to find than I expected: https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do Given a Mac’s serial number, you can look up its warranty info online there. It’ll also let you know if the computer’s covered by AppleCare. It is an estimate, however. I’m not sure why it would happen, but some people report that it can be inaccurate….Continue Reading…
My mother’s blog — Adventures in Parenting.org — was hacked today. It took a couple hours to do the research and fix the site, but I think things have mostly settled down now. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know — without re-doing the entire site — that everything is completely clean. So comb through the site,…Continue Reading…
I just (finally!) upgraded my main computer, a MacBook Pro, to Snow Leopard (from 10.5.8 Leopard). It took 1 hour. My processor is a 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, I have 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, my hard drive has 53.26 GB free, and there are 98 files in my Applications folder. I’d…Continue Reading…