Yes, yes I know that iTunes 8.0 came out yesterday. But that pales in comparison to the new “Get a Mac” ads posted on Apple’s Site. They now claim that the Genius at the Apple store will even transfer files over for you! Incredibly news in itself and a cool bit of marketing. But I [...]

A lot of us old computer geeks like to get nostalgic about pieces of hardware we use to run, work on, and curse on a daily basis. Some of us take it a bit further… Legalize Adulthood just recently received several old Tektronix terminals for their collection. Dating from the age of “one computer, multiple [...]

1.) Software update takes over the entire machine. While this isn’t that big of a deal, a large update on a slow connection could render the machine useless for several hours while it downloads the files. You could also manually pull down the update and run it. But one of my favorite tricks was to [...]