Computers

Price: EUR 19.99 Web Site: https://www.macility.com/products/typinator/ This is a great application that watches as you type and can fix your spelling mistakes in any application. It is a real life saver for me and my terrible typing/spelling. You can also set up shortcuts so that you can type a short bit of text and it gets replaced with much more text. I like to use “dt “, that is a “d” and a “t” followed by a space to insert the date, fantastic. And it will do this in any application, even the finder.

Over the next couple of weeks I am going to write about the software I have found for the Mac OS to make my transition from the world of Windows complete. I am finally comfortable spending all of my computer time inside of the Mac OS. I still have WindowsXP in Bootcamp for playing games on Steam, and a couple virtual machines using VMWare and Parallels for the occasional Microsoft Outlook need or using Garmin Mapsource to upload maps and waypoints to my GPS, but I rarely miss Windows or proprietary applications that only run on Windows. ...

I purchased a Drobo from Newegg.com and three days later the UPS man dropped it off at my door. My previous post to the blog outlines the reasons why I chose the Drobo as a storage solution. Setup was very easy, the top of the box full of cables shows the three steps to getting started and it really is that easy. I took the Drobo out of the box Removed the packaging material Inserted 4 Samsung 1TB hard drives Put the Drobo on my desk Plugged in the Firewire 800 cable Inserted the Drobo disc and installed the Drobo Dashboard Plugged in the power cable to the Drobo Here began my only snag, the Drobo appeared to go into a loop of restarting which it did not recover from. So unplugged the Firewire cable and then the power cable and restarted the computer. Once the computer cam back up I plugged in the Firewire cable and then the power cable and the Drobo jumped to life. The computer warned about the drive being unreadable and the Drobo began the process of walking me through partitioning and formatting the drive. I used a 16TB partition and HFS+ formatting. It was done in about 5 minutes and popped up on my desktop just like any external hard drive would. I immediately began copying my music library to the Drobo from an external USB drive This really is an amazing device; I was able to start using it within 15 minutes of opening the box. It is almost invincible on my desk; its sleek black case and solid construction give me confidence. Not having to install rails on the individual drives is also a plus. ...

After a lot of consideration we have decided to buy a second Palm Centro instead of an iPhone. There many reasons I would really like a 3G iPhone, iTunes support, a beautiful screen, a decent camera, great web browser, and now with the App store about to open I am sure there will be a lot of great applications available. But I have been a PalmOS user for many years, right from the begining actually with the Palm Personal. ...