The DRM Blues
iTunes was great. Before Apple’s digital media player and music store came along I was starting to feel like an old fogey that popular culture had passed by. I had been burned one too many times buying...
View ArticleNew Home for the Hackintosh
My Hackintosh or Customac Mini as the folks over at TonyMacX86 call it was assembled inside of an Apex MI-008 Mini-Itx Case that included a 250W power supply and not a lot of room to spare. As I was...
View ArticleYeah, but is it a real Mac?
I built my first Hackintosh a little over a year ago, and I recently upgraded it to the latest operating system for Apple, but it’s always been bothering me whether it was a real Mac. It is certainly...
View ArticleThe Third Time Around
I’ve recently completed building my third PC which also happens to be my third Hackintosh! I thought my son had gotten all of the mileage he possibly could out of used and well worn Dual G4 Power Mac....
View ArticleBring Out The GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, that is! GIMP for short, but you can call it the FREE version of Photoshop!I use Photoshop on a daily basis, and I wouldn’t say that GIMP is a same-to-same trade off...
View ArticleOkay — the third and a half time!
I was upgrading and swapping parts and watching videos and plotting and planning, and what I thought was going to be a pretty good setup for new or at least newish rigs for my son and me didn’t quite...
View ArticleA Hiccup
My Independence Day project didn’t work out as I hoped. It probably seems like overkill, but I bought this Corsair Carbide Spec-01 case to house the Mini-Itx motherboard which is essentially the heart...
View ArticleNot Fade Away
I’ve sung the praises of the Roku set-top box before. For the uninitiated, Roku’s website can be found HERE or you can chase down articles I’ve written for this site HERE and HERE. The short story of...
View ArticleNot Quite Dead
Having received an email about the obsolescence of my Roku HD from the company that manufactured it, I recently wrote an obituary for my dear departed media player. I was in mourning, but it seems...
View ArticleNew Home for the Hackintosh
My Hackintosh or Customac Mini as the folks over at TonyMacX86 call it was assembled inside of an Apex MI-008 Mini-Itx Case that included a 250W power supply and not a lot of room to spare. As I was...
View ArticleSwimming in the Low End
I just purchased a used 2009 Mac Pro to use as a replacement for my recently departed dual G5 Mac Pro which I also purchased used. It served me well as a graphic design and digital illustration...
View ArticleOK, Now We’re Done
With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go! As I recently wrote, my G5 Mac Pro which the world and Apple’s marketing department has...
View ArticleThinking Differently
We were in the market for a new computer and I was hearing great things about the current Mac mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. The video reviews I watched were mostly enthusiastic for Apple’s entry level...
View ArticleThe FUTURE circa 1986
Bubo the Rat is one of my earliest digital illustrations. I drew it on a digitizing tablet called The Animation Station which plugged into a Commodore 64. The print was output on a Panasonic dot matrix...
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