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Two Hours With The New Macbook Pro

As most people know, my old Macbook Pro was basically at the end of its life a few weeks ago. The display was always wonky on it, and even after a recent LCD replacement, had a hot pixel in the center. The backslash key stopped working a while ago (and obviously the [...]

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New Macbook and Macbook Pros Announced

I’m sure it’s old news by new, but Apple announced updates for their Macbook lines today. They look pretty snazzy, sporting thinner aluminum cases and black plastic near the monitor. I’m not sure I’m sold on the decision to make the monitor glossy (as this makes it more difficult editing photos, IMO), but [...]

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New LCD For My Macbook Pro

My new LCD arrived via FedEx this morning. I picked it up on the way to work, along with a Torx screwdriver to remove some of the internal pieces. I decided to take a stab at fixing it when I arrived, but it turns out it was far more involved than I thought.
Ripped [...]

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The Case Of The Disappearing Hard Drive

Ever since I upgraded to Leopard a few months ago, I’ve been plagued with disk space issues on my Macbook Pro. Normally, when shooting photographs, you use your hard drive as permanent storage and your compact flash cards as temporary storage. I had so little space on my hard drive during the [...]

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Ten Reasons Why I Need A Girlfriend

I just realized I don’t own any glasses, just mugs
My plants are all dead or dying
My christmas tree is still up
I don’t look at bills before I pay them, I typically just pay a random amount and hope it’s right
I’ve lived in my current apartment for two and a half years, and I still don’t [...]

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My Computer Can Kick Your Computer’s Ass

I was walking around my apartment this evening, and came to the realization that I have a ton of computer equipment. So much in fact that some of it is piled is various corners of my place. Here’s a small list of what I have sitting around:
1) iMac Core2-Duo 2.0 GHz Desktop
2) Macbook [...]

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New Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro Announced

Today Apple officially unveiled the new Apple MacBook and MacBook pro laptops. Not a whole lot of excitement with the announcements, since many people were expecting a new form factor, but it looks like there are a few small improvements. Of note is the addition of the multi-touch track pad that is part [...]

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Laptop Update

I know everyone is absolutely dying to know the current state of my laptop, so here’s an update. I called down this afternoon and they said the LCD is toast on it which is why I’ve probably been having a pile of problems with sleep and things of that nature. A new [...]

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