New Beginnings Follow a Sad Ending

Three weeks ago was a sad day. My Mac’s fans were grinding on something, so I opened it up to clean them out. I removed some recognizable dust bunnies! Then, I put it all back together. Power… Nothing. I tried every troubleshooting tactic I knew and even researched one or two new ones I did [...]

2014-10-24T08:33:19-07:00October 24th, 2014|Hardware, Personal|

Preparing for Fusion

Last week, as a my graduation gift to myself, I bought the OWC Data Doubler and solid-state drive (SSD) that have been on my wish list for a year or two. I use my Mac so much less than when I bought it, since I've offloaded much of my computing to my iPad and now [...]

2013-06-03T21:10:35-07:00June 3rd, 2013|Personal|

Mountain Lion Notes & Bugs

Two weeks after installing OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (ML) on my Mac, it's time to share my thoughts on using it. For starters, ML has been an incredibly stable OS. Not that I experienced a lot of crashes before. I just have an impression that it's speedy and solid. However, among all its strengths [...]

2012-08-09T13:59:50-07:00August 9th, 2012|Personal|

Preparing to Welcome Mountain Lion

Apple announced this afternoon at its quarterly earnings call that OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be released tomorrow. It's a $20 upgrade and my MacBook Pro is among the supported models. This past week, I've been preparing my Mac for tomorrow's launch. First, I cleaned up my address book. This was more in preparation [...]

2012-07-24T15:33:43-07:00July 24th, 2012|Personal|
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