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Tag: Mac

  • Storage is Cheap

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    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 an external USB hard drive, combined with a slew of 16GB thumb drives held at…

  • Apple MacBook Pro i5 Unboxing

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    Johnny Canuck
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    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. For the record I’m upgrading from this:

  • Dear Steve, Where’s my I5 MacBook Pro?

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    Dear Steve, I have been a pretty loyal FanBoy / Apologist / Web Developer for the past 4 years. In fact, I was one of first Wintel Geeks North of the Border to switch to the new super cool Intel MacBooks. Despite the cooling issues, replacing the logic board a couple of times  and the…

  • Three Weeks With an Android: Part ONE

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Just before Christmas, I was given the chance to test out the brand new Samsung Galaxy on Bell’s brand spanking new HSPA+ network. This was a really cool demo opportunity too.  Basically it went like this:  No Strings Attached, I get a Galaxy for my personal use, unlimited local minutes, unlimited SMS and most important…

  • The DadCast Episode 7 – The Search for Schultzter

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    Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Season 2 is in full swing and we’re still looking for The Schultzter. This week the Dads explore HDTV, PVRs, Blue Ray and up scaling DVDs. We run down some of the current TV shows we’ve been watching, and superficially review some of the summer flicks…

  • 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…

  • Snow Leopard: Hands On

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    Johnny Canuck
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      Before I even get started with this, let me just that this hands on review will not rival John Siracusa’s in depth analysis of the latest flavour of Mac OS X. If you need that much detail, please go ahead and read his article here. It’s no secret that most of the Fat Dads…

  • We are the Knights who say *Nix

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    Schultzter
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    Unlike all the other posts/rants on the topic of Linux vs. Windows vs. FreeBSD this one will explore my take on the issue from my point of view.

  • The Dadcast Goes into Pre Beta

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    Johnny Canuck
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    We recently started toying with the idea of putting together a DadCast, a 2FatDads podcast, so I dusted off the old mic stand and put away my reels of spliced tape and decided to put WireTap Pro to the test of recording a Skype conference call between three or more of the Fat Dads. Unfortunately…

  • Firefox Renders Like Crap

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    Johnny Canuck
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    The proof is in the pudding… The middle image was rendered by Firefox 3 on Windows XP and it looks all washed out. To the left is the original RAW processed to JPG in CS3 Bridge and the right most picture is in Safari for Windows. Which actually looks the most like the original… The…