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Author: steve_mtl

  • Snow Leopard’s coming (oh wait, it’s here!)

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    The latest installment of Apple’s big cat OS is on its way (literally, at the time of starting this post it was leaving the sorting hub and on its way to a delivery truck). At first I was skeptical about buying a (.0) OS release, but rumors are rampant that 10.6.1 is in the pipeline…

  • Maybe now we can actually sync a Blackberry with a Mac?

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    February 12 2009: MacBook Pro 15” ordered. February 20, 2009: Proud owners of our first MacBook ! Now the integration starts. I went on in length about the issues we had in translating everything from PC to Mac (http://www.2fatdads.com/2009/03/pc-to-mac-switching-pains-part-1/). The only issue we still are having is the lousy integration between Blackberry and Mac, which was…

  • TomTom Go 720 vs Garmin nüvi 255

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    Time for toy shopping. I’ve been looking into buying a GPS for awhile. My first instinct was to look into what Garmin had to offer. Why Garmin? Well I actually couldn’t find anyone who owned a TomTom to ask them about their experience. So off to the big box electronic store. We were going on…

  • Ninth Level of Programmers

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    Recently a tweet by Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) caught my eye. It was titled 8 Levels of Programmers, and describes the different kind of developers out there. I got to thinking, and I think he missed one: Painted In a Corner Developer. Its been my experience that more coders are in that category that would like…

  • PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)

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    So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!). The importing of existing videos from the external hard…

  • PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 1)

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    So we made the leap. Our HP Pavilion A1211N, which admittedly was bought off the shelf because it was at the right price-point, finally died a sudden and graceless death after three years of faithful (ok two good years, one not so good) service. Note: both the author and all members of the household have…

  • Where has the workmanship gone?

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    So I’m minding my business, reading through 2fatdads.com, when I stumble upon a post by Johnny Canuck detailing his awesome satellite dish rig. I was instantly transported to the summer of 2006, when we left Bell and went all in with Videotron’s version of the triple play offering. We already were using them for their…

  • The cost of hiring the wrong person, a cautionary tale

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    I’ve been interviewing candidates for some job openings both for one of my teams and for a colleague’s over the last few months. Now when I interview, I tend to want to see many candidates. I want to be sure that the person I am hiring is not only a good match on paper, but…