Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Senior vs. The iMac

I sit at my table at the McKune Memorial Library wondering why I only have 7 subscribers to my blog. An older lady sits down and unpacks across from me. She’s a senior. Not a slow moving, slipper shuffling senior. There’s no evidence of a ‘walker’ with tennis balls on the back legs. She has [...]

Deal – Or No Deal?

Came across these two “sale” items at Altrec.com whilst perusing rain jackets. Item #1 Item #2 At least item #2 received a 5 star rating and there is free shipping.

MediaMax To Change Name

I was in the process of signing up over at MediaMax for their FREE 25GB of online storage, when I got the following error: Insufficient system storage. The server response was: 4.3.1 Out of memory (I actually feel like that some days.) But after some poking around and landing on their blog, I see they [...]

Test Driving ‘EverNote’

If you’re not hip to EverNote, get there quick. This free program(Google Ad driven) now in Beta 3 is creating a buzz about town, especially with the LifeHacker/GTD and Get organized crowds. Think of a roll of adding machine paper in which you add ideas, web clippings, to-dos, photos etc., as you come across them. [...]

Minor Nusances

The computer keyboards at the library are WAY too loud.  Clickety-friggin’-CLACK. People using cell phones while typing on said keyboards are WAY too loud. The kids hanging out in the ‘teen space’, adjacent to said keyboards and cell phone talker are WAY too loud. Other than that I’m enjoying my time at the Library.

Enlarge Button No Help

I was hoping for a bit more when I clicked on the “Enlarge” button at Office Depot’s site.  While looking at office chairs, I came across a model that just wasn’t giving me the visual detail I needed. The enlarged image is in the window to the right of the original picture below.

Graybit.com – Blog Readability

James Yeang has a useful Top 5 post over at FriedBeef’s Tech as it pertains to color matching. Whether it’s deciding on the colors of my room, web page, or posters, I find that coming up with a color scheme can be quite a challenge. For all you design-challenged-individuals (like me!), here are 5 free [...]