Took my laptop to the Apple store Wednesday and it was quite the experience. Practically SRO when I walked in. What is this? A special sale? No, I was told, normal for the store. About half the people appeared to be blue-shirted Apple employees. Had a great conversation with the young man at the Genius … Continue reading Laptop update
Well, my laptop seems to have had a stroke last night while I was watching TV. I closed it for a few hours and when I opened it the screen had gone black. Fan still running, still warm, light on the front still on, but a solid black screen. I’m on the big box now, … Continue reading Sick computer
(Updated Sept. 11, 2012, at 11 am MDT) I have, until now, been generally supportive of the hacktivist group Anonymous. It has been easy to cheer secretly when they attack organizations I don’t like. Today, however, it appears they, or someone, attacked and knocked out GoDaddy because, according to some reports, GoDaddy supported SOPA legislation. … Continue reading Hacktivism finally goes too far
What a remarkable individual he was. He defined a generation, an age, a revolution. In one way or another, he touched the life of every American. Somehow I thought he’d find a way to beat it. He’d pulled so many other rabbits out of his hat; I’d hoped he had one for himself. R.I.P. Steve … Continue reading R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Mac users who’ve recently installed OS X Lion (Ver. 10.7) may have noticed the touchpad’s “pinch-zoom” function no longer works in Firefox. (It still works in Chrome, but not in Firefox.) Distressing, since this was one of the Mac functions I’d very quickly come to love. I prowled around a few forums and discovered that … Continue reading Grandma fixes Lion’s pinch-zoom function in Firefox
I just saw a CNN report on Internet privacy and how so many entities track your every move for fun and profit. Far too many Internet users never give any thought to privacy — and then they wonder why they get so much spam, junk snail mail, and robocalls. The story reminded me that since … Continue reading A reminder about online privacy
