Last week I bought a new 2017 Macbook Pro 15-inch with 16gb of RAM, 1tb SSD, and the Radeon Pro 560 with 4gb of RAM.Here is the unboxing video I made of the new Macbook Pro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gYw8PPdQo&t=8s In the video, I…
While visiting Seattle for the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), my buddy, Lyle, turned me on to a service called Uber. Lyle had the Uber application on his iPhone and allowed him to get us a ride anywhere we needed to…
It has been a while since I have written any kind of update on the Mac Media Center Project. This is because it took a long time to encode all the movies I own. Along the way, I came across…
Recently, I returned from a vacation. While I was gone my brother-in-law Scott, showed me a great little iOS app called Fast Camera. This app has the two missing features I have been craving most from Apple's iOS camera software.…
Not long ago Apple introduced a book authoring program called 'iBooks Authoring'. Its an application that makes publishing books to the Apple iBooks store a whole lot easier. One of the reasons my book ALL THAT MATTERS was not published to the…
I really love music. All of my life music has played a big part in it. I remember at a very young age listening to vinyl records on my father's Sony turntable home stereo system. I would listening to records for hours and hours.…
In 1997, I found myself, along with three very close friends of mine, huddled together looking at the glowing screen of an Apple Power Macintosh 5000 series computer in our high school graphic arts class. We where all very different…
I don't have a glamorous day job by any means. (I am still waiting for PIXAR, Apple, or ILM to call me back.) What I do have at work are animals. This is the first place I have ever worked that allows…
I have almost always had a wiki in one form or another to help me keep track or remember things that I just don't use everyday. It's been a very useful tool for me, not only at home, but also…
Last night around 9:30 when I should have been in bed, but was instead up watching a movie with Hannah on my Media Center, the power went out. We only pay some of the highest rates in the country for electricity so…