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So this is my lazyweb request:
I bought a used 2005 Saab 9-3 Convertible this weekend (Yes, I love it and it goes well with our Volvo wagon in the driveway).
How can I connect my iPhone to the Saab head unit so that a) the iPod capabilities of the iPhone work though the stereo, and can [...]

My wife was trying to print something the other night, and she was complaining that the printer was broken. I figured out what the problem was for me, so I’m posting this in case others have the same sort of problem (the answers I found on the web weren’t all that readable, and I spent [...]

I have an issues with Apple’s new MagSafe power cords. Specifically - they suck.
I have had to purchase four power cords for my MacBook Pros over the past twelve months or so… why? Because the stupid connection between the cable running up to the connector and the connector comes apart. And when [...]

I’ll be at MacWorld this year on Tuesday for about an hour… maybe two…
I just happen to have a business trip to San Francisco to meet with a few potential clients on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the only flights we could get that weren’t ridiculously expensive was the 6 a.m. Nerd Bird from Austin to [...]

I got an interesting error message today after trying to use Time Machine for the first time:
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“Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume.”
Thanks Apple. That fucking useful…
Why didn’t the error message just say:
“Sorry, something went wrong.”
How about telling what went wrong and [...]

I’ve been living with Leopard since the day it came out. Here’s a random list of things I’ve lost, or changed since I upgraded:
Mail Tags and Mail Act-On aren’t Leopard compatible. Mail Tags is being worked on right now, according to the developer… no public news on Mail Act-On (I don’t really use [...]

This won’t be a “cool, the iPhone came out today” post. This is a “sweet ass - I got an iPhone today” post.
My sorta-boss (he hired me, but was the founder of the company that got bought, and I now work for someone else, but he still helps me run my business) told me [...]

If you want to “redirect” an email that you get, so that it goes to someone else, without looking like a forward, but also has your return address instead of the original senders, use Command+Shift+D when using Mail.app on Mac OS X.
Command+Shift+D
I don’t know what this would really be called (it’s not a [...]

Talk about a cool Mail.app hack: Letterbox from Aaron Harnly will give you a three-paned Mail.app interface, ala Outlook (ie. side-by-side panes). Very very cool.
[via Zoom-In Online and Hawkwings]

Shit. My AppleTV was supposed to ship by Wednesday of this week. Now Apple has gone a delayed the shipment until “mid-March” because they aren’t ready. Shit. I hate it when a company pre-announces stuff. It sets expectations that usually can’t be met. Hope this doesn’t happen to the iPhone. [...]

Yes, I did it. I ordered an Apple TV. Want to know why?
Because I’m an Apple dork, and to be honest with you, I’m really not happy with the lack of content available on “standard” HD cable channels, and I’m going to pay another $50/month to get HD movie channels. I’m also tired [...]

For one of the best summaries of what Apple has done with the iPhone, see the second page of this article from Time:
“The iPhone breaks two basic axioms of consumer technology. One, when you take an application and put it on a phone, that application must be reduced to a crippled and annoying version of [...]

I gotta figure out how to use this word spotted in a recent Daring Fireball ‘Jackass of the Week’ article:
frigtard - as in “socially maladjusted frigtards”.
Love it.

I just wanted to take a moment to recommend that you buy one of the new MacBook Pro’s, a new MacBook, or a new iPod shuffle for the holidays, if you’re shopping for a geek that’s looking for a new geeky item this winter.
I have an older MacBook Pro right now, and this thing is awesome. [...]

Interesting. I went to the Apple Store to custom configure a new MacBook Pro now that they’ve gotten speed bumps, and include Firewire 800, and I saw this on the options that you can add-on:

A MagSafe Airline Power Adapter.
Looks like Apple’s building one now (finally) and they’re selling them as add-ons through [...]

I read Michael Bartosh Passes by TUAW today, and I though “man, that sucks.” Back when I helped run MacNN I used to call Michael every month or so, to learn what was new with Apple. At least that’s what I was trying to learn… typically, Michael would tell me he didn’t know, [...]

Heh… Go watch the “05:00″ hour on Apple’s Fifth Avenue Retail Store web page, and you’ll see a young Asian man use Apple’s web cam to propose to his girl.
Apple’s Fifth Avenue Store web page
Funny.

Recently, I took my Powerbook (15″ 1.25 Ghz G4) and iBook (12″ 700 MHz G3) into the local Apple store for repairs.
The iBook was effectively a doorstop, in that the machine wouldn’t boot up at all, and it wouldn’t charge the battery. It’d been busted for a few months now, and I wasn’t sure [...]

I just became a Daring Fireball member. I did so because I hadn’t done it before, though I wanted to… just didn’t feel like John was putting out a product that was worth it as a part time job.
Now that he’s doing it full-time, I’m super excited about reading his full-time posts… and I [...]

My favorite reaction to Apple BootCamp announcement is this one from FuckedCompany.com:
Hell’s doors are now open
Apple’s new Boot Camp software will allow Mac users to run Windows XP.
When: 4/5/2006
Company: Apple Computer Inc
Severity: 30
Points: 130
Discuss in the Happy Fun Slander Corner
Yes, I still read F’dCompany… you don’t? It reminds me of the good old days… [...]

Anyone know where I can buy a PCMCIA card that’ll work in my PowerBook and that’ll let me read Type I and Type II Compact Flash cards? I need one to get data off my camera’s CF cards more easily than carrying around the USB adapter I have. I just want to plop [...]

This is response to a Jason Kottke post about buying a Macintosh three weeks ago.
Everyone prospective Macintosh buyer should know three things about buying a Macintosh and the timing of that purchase:
1. Don’t buy a Macintosh one month before: a) A

One announcement that I haven’t heard a lot about today is that Google Earth is now avaialble for Macintosh users. Cool, downloading now. (Sidenote: the funny thing is that I have a IBM Thinkpad that I use for work that runs Windows, and I’ve never been interested in downloading Google Earth for the [...]

Tomorrow morning I’ll have my coffee in hand tomorrow morning, just waiting to hear what happens at the keynote.
Here’s a list of predictions from ThinkSecret. Let’s see how accurate they were after the keynote.

This post is also for Scott, but I broke up these two entries because they really are two seperate subjects.
I’d also highly highly recommend that you free up a lot more space on your computer. You should ideally have at least 10 Gigs free of hard drive space on your computer. It’ll just [...]

This post is for Scott, in response to his questions about a good graphics editor for the Mac.
List of good stuff for you on the graphics side:
1. Graphic Converter (cheap, easy, but very powerful if you want to get into it) and it’ll probably feel a lot like PaintShoPro when you start using it (it [...]

Tom Hespos, a fellow internet media guy in NY, just started rediscovering the Macintosh.
It’s fun to read Tom’s comments on how he bought a cheap Mac Mini for himself for Christmas, but he also paid for the Apple mouse and keyboard, and a bunch of other stuff, even though he kept from being upsold to [...]