random rumblings » Apple http://www.poulios.com/blog there has been an alarming increase in things I know nothing about! Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:33:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Restraint and Rationalization http://www.poulios.com/blog/2010/04/07/restraint-and-rationalization/ http://www.poulios.com/blog/2010/04/07/restraint-and-rationalization/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:37:22 +0000 K http://www.poulios.com/blog/?p=1147 Continue reading →]]> If you know my love of gadgets, you know I have little restraint when it comes to new gadgets and can rationalize bying one with the best of them. Well, today I went to the Apple Store to take a test drive (read: play) with the new iPad. Oh boy, I didn’t realize how much I’d like it. It’s smooth, fast, easy to read, and I can only imagine how nice it would be to watch a movie on it while travelling on a plane. Using Safari poulios.com looked great (check it out here and type in my web address, typing wasn’t bad either, like many people thought it would be. My theory, if you need to write a long email, use a computer. The iPhone works with short emails, the iPad is somewhere in the middle. There’s only one thing I think it’s missing, a webcam/camera, but that won’t hinder me from buying one. I don’t use the camera on my laptop very often and don’t plan to take the iPad with me on excursions just to take pictures. Either way, I’d guess about this time next year they’ll come out with version 2 with a camera. In the end – or is it just the first chapter – I showed restraint… for now, but am quickly rationalizing buying one every minute.

]]> http://www.poulios.com/blog/2010/04/07/restraint-and-rationalization/feed/ 3 Let me get this straight… http://www.poulios.com/blog/2010/03/14/let-me-get-this-straight/ http://www.poulios.com/blog/2010/03/14/let-me-get-this-straight/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:26:21 +0000 K http://www.poulios.com/blog/?p=1124 Continue reading →]]> Would you ever purchase something without being able to see it, touch it, hear it? Well, apparently there are a lot of people out there that are willing to do just that with the new Apple iPad. According to Investor Village, and re-posted by Fortune’s Apple Blog, about 120,000 people have already pre-ordered the iPad. I’m just as curious as the next person to play with the new iPad when it goes on sale next month, but to buy it without ever getting to use it at an Apple store, that’s just not going to happen.

]]> http://www.poulios.com/blog/2010/03/14/let-me-get-this-straight/feed/ 0 Copy cats in the land of birds… http://www.poulios.com/blog/2009/10/11/copy-cats-in-the-land-of-birds/ http://www.poulios.com/blog/2009/10/11/copy-cats-in-the-land-of-birds/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:05:14 +0000 K http://www.poulios.com/blog/?p=851 Continue reading →]]> That’s about as creative a post heading you’ll get out me. Anyway, ever since we got to Louisville I’ve heard from multiple people “if you don’t like the weather, just wait 15 minutes” or something of the sort. Problem is, I used to here the same comment in Denver. I actually used it a bunch of times, once in a post a few years back (see here). It got me to wondering, outside of California, is this a pretty common theme where the weather is prone to big shifts within a single day or multiple days? I can only answer for the places I’ve lived and Denver seemed to have the biggest weather changes from one day to the next or even within a single day.

And in the not much to see here category we again have Louisville. Yesterday afternoon I moseyed on over to 4th Street Live, an area in downtown with popular bars and restaurants. First of all, 4th Street Live takes up less than a block of downtown. It’s pretty small. And outside of the Sports and Social Club, which had a good amount of people there, the other places – including Hard Rock – were empty. It was sort of disappointing as I was expecting more from what I had heard was a fun college town. Oh well.

On to a topic that usually falls on deaf ears, technology. A couple of days ago I updated my computer OS from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I wasn’t expecting much from the upgrade as it was more of a clean up upgrade from Apple. One thing I had heard was how it “creates” space on the hard drive, and they weren’t kidding. Before the upgrade I had a little over 16 GB of space available on my hard drive. After, over 32 GB’s! I’m not going to research the reason why right now, but I’m not complaining.

]]> http://www.poulios.com/blog/2009/10/11/copy-cats-in-the-land-of-birds/feed/ 0 All over the place… http://www.poulios.com/blog/2009/02/08/all-over-the-place/ http://www.poulios.com/blog/2009/02/08/all-over-the-place/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:29:59 +0000 K http://www.poulios.com/blog/?p=561 Continue reading →]]> This post is going to be all over the place. Hopefully they’ll be something in here for each of my millions of readers:

  1. This past week, for the first time, a friend asked me to set up a blog.  Most of you know her as Mary here at poulios.com.  To start, we purchased a domain name using godaddy.com.  Then we set up a blog using wordpress.com.  A few changes to the name servers at godaddy.com to forward the domain over to wordpress and now we have twohig.me for your reading pleasure.   We were also able to set up email for Mary using gmail.  If you’re not using gmail, you should be.  I’ve used hotmail (or whatever they call it these days), yahoo, and other sites here and there, and gmail is easily the best of the bunch.
  2. Quicken Financial Life for Mac is set to be released this summer.  For those of you that don’t know me very well, I’m very budget conscious and track my finances at least weakly weekly.  I’ve actually cut back recently to forgo any frustration viewing my investments as they take a nosedive.  Not that I don’t spend my fair share of money on gadgets and drinks (usually not at the same time), but I like to know where my money is and where it’s going.  About 3 years ago when I bought my Macbook Pro, I tried Quicken for Mac 2007, for which I was greatly disappointed.  This, along with Apple’s inability to play WMA radio on the web, caused me to install Windows XP on my Mac using the built in Bootcamp software.  Here’s hoping Quicken Financial Life for Mac will allow me to slowly pull further away from Windows.
  3. Back to my blog, I’ve installed a new plugin allowing me to add “asides” to the blog.  Asides are short posts that usually don’t warrant their own post on the blog.  The Facebook status link is a good example of an aside.  Eventually, after I play and test it out a little, this will replace the Facebook status feed.  Granted, the asides will be just as boring, but will allow you to post comments to them.

Well, there you have it.  Remember, just over 4 days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training.  Go Mets!

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To make sure credit is given for finding the video, here’s a link to the CNET Macalope Blog.

]]> http://www.poulios.com/blog/2008/04/20/bruce-springsteen-to-sue-microsoft-for-defamation-of-character/feed/ 0 If I could have waited just one month… http://www.poulios.com/blog/2008/01/16/if-i-could-have-waited-just-one-month/ http://www.poulios.com/blog/2008/01/16/if-i-could-have-waited-just-one-month/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:42:33 +0000 K http://www.poulios.com/blog/?p=142 Continue reading →]]> During the month of December the connection to my wireless router was dropping multiple times per day, which usually means the router is going bad. That’s not surprising considering they usually only last a year or two. Well, early last week, the router died. As a result, I did some research and decided to buy the Apple Airport Extreme ($180), which has a USB port for connecting an external hard drive or printer. The main reason I wanted to hook up the external hard drive to the router is to be able to back up my data wirelessly, but Time Machine doesn’t work so well with a wireless external hard drive. So, I decided to go with the wireless printer option. On top of that, I bought a new 500 GB external hard drive last month for $140 to go with the new Mac OS, specifically to take advantage of Time Machine.

Why am I telling you this? Well, yesterday, Apple introduced a new product called Time Capsule, which is both a wireless router and hard drive. Lets do the math. During the past month I’ve paid $320 for a wireless router and external hard drive. The 500 GB Time Capsule, which is set to be available in February, will cost $300. It would have cost less to by a single product. How often does that happen? That sucks! On top of everything, Time Capsule would allow for Time Machine to backup wirelessly, which as I noted earlier doesn’t work so well when hooked up the external hard drive wirelessly.

There’s a reason I love technology, but sometimes I wish technology would be available when I need it, not just after I need it. Maybe I should sue Apple. I’m sure they knew this was coming out when I purchased the wireless router last week. I mean, if people actually bring lawsuits against Apple for lowering their prices shortly after the iPhone was brought to market, I’m sure there’s a lawyer out there willing to hear me out. Of course, I’m just kidding about that. It’s just my way of complaining about all the idiots out there that sue when things don’t go their way. Me, I just add a post to the blog :-) .

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