Category Archive: TechTalk

A discussion about technology, computers, Macintosh, etc.

04 Aug

Before E-mail

Before E-mail

Often times I am asked why I need to buy a new hard drive. “I don’t throw anything away,” but that is never accepted as, …

 
By biberfan
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15 Mar

Killing the Music Experience

Killing the Music Experience

I cannot comment because I don’t use Windows. Comment on what? You’ll have an easier read over here, but I wanted to get to the original …

 
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27 Feb

Taking Stock of Bach’s Cantatas

Taking Stock of Bach’s Cantatas

You can buy all of Bach’s cantatas, as some enterprising conductors have set to do just that, record them all! There was Harnoncourt, then Koopman, …

 
By biberfan
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01 Jan

Signals

Signals

I am always intrigued by the sounds I hear when I have had the opportunity to travel to foreign places. And by foreign, I mean …

 
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12 Sep

The Laserwriter

The Laserwriter

Today we took one of my possessions to Goodwill, as a donation. I have a feeling they may just recycle it, but who knows. Back in …

 
By biberfan
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30 Jul

Better Pictures

Better Pictures

I follow several food blogs, like this one, and then I also follow folks who like to photograph food, like this one. I’m a little …

 
By biberfan
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27 Jun

Bing Ad

Bing Ad

I was visiting a website today about technology news and in the sidebar of the page was an ad for using the new Microsoft Bing …

 
By biberfan
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20 Jun

Evolution of HiFi

Evolution of HiFi

While I’ve seemingly been quiet here, at least in talking about music, I’ve been busy trying to determine where to take the hi-fi system as …

 
By biberfan
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24 May

Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend it’s a good time for reflection. I am going through some of my photos I’ve taken over the past five years and am …

 
By biberfan
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11 Apr

Old School Mac

Old School Mac

This brings back the memories… My mother was editing a document for work with our family’s Mac Plus in 1990. At this point, it was …

 
By biberfan
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16 Mar

Time for a new computer?

Time for a new computer?

I am feeling it’s time for a new computer. I can’t precisely choose what I want to replace it with, but tonight I came across …

 
By biberfan
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02 Dec

GeoTagging

GeoTagging

I’m really in love with the concept of geotagged photos. These are photographs where the location of the camera is embedded with the digital actual …

 
By biberfan
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03 Nov

Beach Ball of Death

Beach Ball of Death

Did you know the so-called “Beach Ball of Death” on Macs is actually a killer vegetable?

 
By biberfan
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10 May

Lobster Shanty

Lobster Shanty

I recently installed a new application on my computer called Leap which is kind of a tagging, find it, organize it application. It does things …

 
By biberfan
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30 Apr

Apple Lisa

Apple Lisa

My dream machine. This was the first GUI computer I laid eyes on; it was very early 1984 before Macintosh was released in our computer store, …

 
By biberfan
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20 Mar

Martha and her MacBook Air

Martha and her MacBook Air

Martha Stewart recently blogged about getting a MacBook Air. As long, longtime readers of biberfan most certainly know, I am not Martha’s biggest fan. I ate …

 
By biberfan
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16 Feb

Apple TV

Apple TV

Tonight, after contemplating a lot of hard work I’ve endured over the past couple of weeks, in addition to my current poor state of health, …

 
By biberfan
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12 Feb

Full Potential

Full Potential

In reading about the Microsoft-Yahoo! merger proceedings, I stepped across this line describing Microsoft. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader …

 
By biberfan
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