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Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Once the Dads finally got the show running, it went a little crazy with talk of social networks Vark.com, Farcebook, we review gaming on the iPhone and Steve’s penchant for musettes.…
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Upgrading Hard Drives – It’s Really This Easy
Let’s get the 320 GB hard drive upgrade, it should be enough space for awhile… …or not. When we ordered the MacBook Pro in February ’09 our entry option for the hard drive was 250 GB, so upgrading to 320…
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DadCast Episode 16 – Waiting for Mr Ben
Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads goof off in the Wendyhouse while waiting for Mr Ben get online. Francois gets banned for life, Steph gets an A is Psych, Steve retires to coaching…
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Storage is Cheap
I’ve been wrestling with our home backup strategy for over a year now. A little background: We made the switch from PC to Mac in February 2008. Since then I have shed away my previous strategy of using SyncToy with…
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How Form Actually Affects Function
I have been using the MacBook Pro and only the MacBook Pro for all of my work and personal stuff for about 3 weeks now. Sure I’ve had my fair share of annoyances in adjusting my workflows and my bad…
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Apple vs Adobe: When Your Favourite Aunt & Uncle Get Divorced
So this morning Adobe has launched a campaign to try to and reach out to the pro Apple crowd and the web community in general. They even tried to play the open market versus open standard card by making a…
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Using A MacBook Pro As Your Full-Time Work Computer
About four years ago, I decided I had enough of being the family tech support guy and through in my Windows towel for good. I checked out https://mytechnolojoy.com which is a great resource for PC help, but the Warning Signs…
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Apple MacBook Pro i5 Unboxing
This is my new 15 inch MacBook Pro with an i5 chipset, 256Mb NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M discreet graphics chip, 1/2Tb 7200RPM drive, 4Gb of Ram and the new high resolution (1680×1050) anti-glare led back lit display model number: MacBookPro6,2.…
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DadCast Episode 15 – Shamwows and Home Shenanigans
Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we review Le Salon de l’Habitation a.k.a The Montreal Home Show, go over the progress of Schultzter’s home renovation, help him figure out how much do plantation shutters cost…
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The Story of Bottled Water
A couple of years ago we featured the Story of Stuff video. It moved us all so much that we added eco-hacks to the list of pretty important stuff the 2 Fat Dads site would talk about. I guess you…