Tired of Being Your Parents IT Support?
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, Mom and Dad, Techy Stuff on 29. Aug, 2009 | 3 Comments
I have a small and nagging problem. It’s my mother, and her utter lack of any expertise with the computer…bless her heart. You see, she’s stuck in the Windows XP world, waiting too many minutes to start up the machine and the constant crashes, bog downs and useless crap. It’s no surprise [...]
Great, Add Another Apple Fanboy
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, Microsoft, Techy Stuff on 21. Jan, 2009 | 0 Comments
I bit the bullet. Being the only fuddy member who was stuck in the PC/Microsoft world, it proved frustrating at times with compressed video done with the Apple Intermediate Codec which is only available on Macs. Other annoyances, like both Dave and Erik’s smugness that comes along with being a new Mac owner. [...]
Rollback iTunes 8
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, Music, Random, Techy Stuff on 25. Sep, 2008 | 0 Comments
I despise, absolutely despise iTunes 8.
Bloated, heavy on resources and introducing the Genius Bar (otherwise known as the Spend More Money Bar).
My biggest pet peeve about iTunes 8 is the inability to play all my songs. All I want in iTunes is a big list of songs of which I can play, but that’s [...]
Microsoft Should Change its Name
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, FuddyTV, Microsoft, Random, Techy Stuff on 18. Sep, 2008 | 1 Comment
I feel bad for Microsoft.
The Seinfeld commercial experiment was a bomb (though I thought it was clever), Vista is bashed and the Zune is laughed at. It seems the only thing Microsoft hasn’t been lambasted for is the XBOX, and even then the red circle of death is a black mark on that.
With all [...]
