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A few friends of mine and I ‘volunteered’ to put together a movie for a couple of friends of ours that are getting married this weekend. I got roped in because I’m the one that owns a Macintosh, which means I have iMovie and iDVD… The goal: a 10-20 minute video that gives the couple’s [...]

If any of you out there are iPod nano fans, you’ve gotta go check out my buddy Josh’s news: Go to: http://www.janicek.com/ You’re gonna love it. Congrats Josh and Elise!

I visited Amazon.com today, to buy a book that a colleague recommended to me, and while there, I figured I’d surf around a bit inside Amazon and see if there was anything else I should buy, so I clicked on the “John’s Store” tab at the top of the page. I then looked at “new [...]

Gruber does it again (brings a smile to my face) with his witty analysis of the Dell DJ Ditty 14. Sit back and recall, with tremendously smug satisfaction, a decade’s worth of tech industry punditry holding that superior design would never get Apple anywhere, and that Apple should instead, you know, be more like Dell.

I bought a new Rainbird sprinkler system controller a few weeks ago, and I blew the fuse that came with it during installation… but luckily, it came with a spare. So, I used the spare after I got it installed. Now, two-three weeks later, I came home after a weekend trip out of town, and [...]

Delta and Northwest file for bankruptcy. Two in one day? This won’t be good for the markets tomorrow…

The biggest challenge I see facing my future purchase of an iPod nano? Should I get a Black one or a White one? Ugh… the decisions in life that make it so tough.

Have you ever asked yourself the question “Who is connected to my Airport Base Station?” If so, then you should download the Airport Management Utility. This tool kicks ass. I don’t know why Apple doesn’t advertiser the existence of this software more than it does… the only mention I could find of this software on [...]

WTF? I downloaded a vCalendar file from the Hilton website onto my Powerbook, after booking a hotel room. I then emailed the vCal file to my WindowsXP machine. I saved the file to my desktop, then doubleclicked it to open it in Outlook and save it. I got this error message: Here’s the transcript of [...]

I can’t say this enough. Dreamhost Rocks! If you’re looking for a new shared hosting plan, you really ought to check out Dreamhost. They just started a new sale this month: From: support@dreamhost.com Subject: [Announcement] New! All Shared Hosting Disk Space Doubled! Date: September 1, 2005 4:26:34 AM CDT To: John Engler Hey Happy DreamHost [...]