Twitter Updates for 2010-02-08
Posted by aaron in Uncategorized on February 8th, 2010
- RT @joshturiel Conan was supposed to be in the ad originally, but Jay snuck in and took his spot. #
- I need to start thinking about what I'll be making myself for dinner. Maybe I'll have a super bowl of something. #
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Tech Support the easy way
Last year I posted about my mother and how I decided for her new computer that she should buy a Mac Mini. This was mainly a selfish decision on my part since it would allow me to use iChat to share her screen whenever she has a problem she wants me to look at. Such was the case on Saturday night when she called me and wanted to know how to do a few basic things.
As is my wont, I was complaining to a friend of mine about being tech support for a family member when he shared his tale of family tech support from Saturday. It seems that his father bought an Acer computer and was having some problems. My friend was on the phone with him and was trying to help him download the updated driver and whatnot. As you can imagine, helping a family member (a non computer savvy one at that) to download and install new drivers is not for the faint of heart. In the end it turned out that it wasn’t a driver issue at all.
This is why I decided that my mother get a MacMini instead of a Windows box. I’d much rather be dealing with questions of how to print or email something instead of having to lead her through downloading the latest drivers only to find that they aren’t needed.
Twitter Updates for 2010-02-06
Posted by aaron in Uncategorized on February 6th, 2010
- RT @JoanFronske: Are you Kerio certified? Find out how easy it is to take advantage of benefits by becoming certified. http://tr.im/Kvtm #
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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-05
Posted by aaron in Uncategorized on February 5th, 2010
- All Tor books are still not available on Amazon. I thought this little problem was resolved. #
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Beam Me up
Well, we are now into 2010 and we still don’t have our flying cars. However we may be getting transporters somewhere down the line. Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible
Twitter Updates for 2010-02-03
Posted by aaron in Uncategorized on February 3rd, 2010
- I'm not sure that I like the idea of replacing the cast with midgets #messingwithwestcoasters #
- wow did Hurley lose a lot of weight!#messingwithwestcoasters #
- I was watching a Syfy show and a Bollywood movie broke out. #
- I'm happy and excited to announce a new blog project http://www.thekoshertraveler.com. Reviews should start going up tomorrow. #
- Is there such a thing as a Mac Pundit that isn't in love with the iPad? I'm just asking… #
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Protests
Here is a amusing cartoon that was in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette when the G-20 was in Pittsburgh last summer.
Twitter Updates for 2010-02-01
Posted by aaron in Uncategorized on February 1st, 2010
- I found the guts of an old G5 iMac any thoughts about what i should do with it? #
- Does anyone know how to convert a .ram audio file to an mp3 format? This would be done on the mac. #
- It's taken me several weeks but I'm almost finished reading The Gathering Storm. Full review when I'm done-a great job by @BrandonSandrson #
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Amazon vs. Macmillan
It looks like Amazon is starting to feel the pressure from the yet to be released Apple iPad. They have been pressuring publishers into accepting their prices for ebooks or suffer the consequences. It looks like Macmillan Publishing is the first one to pay the price.
After an negotiating session last week the CEO of Macmillan received an email saying that Amazon will no longer be selling any ebooks that are from Macmillan. It seems that it is not only ebooks but now it’s also their published books as well!
You can still get the books from third party stores that use Amazon but that means that if you are an Amazon Prime member (like I am) you won’t be able to get your books as quickly as you’d like. For me, this is a major downer. Especially since Tor publishing is one of my favorite publisher and they are under the Macmillan publishing arm.
I had mentioned in a previous post that I wasn’t sure what kind of ebook reader I would get, should I decided to get one. I think that my choices were just reduced by one. Based on this, I don’t think that I’ll be getting a Kindle. It is now between a Nook or a Sony ereader.
Twitter Updates for 2010-01-28
Posted by aaron in Uncategorized on January 28th, 2010
- have some more meetings today. The problem is that it's snowing and I have a migraine. Not a good start to the day. #
- not so crazy about the iPad announcement. I'll try to follow this up with a blog post about it. #
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