I am now the proud owner of a PowerBook. It may be an old, long in the tooth PowerBook G3, but it’s still a PowerBook dammit. There are some people who consider this model to be one of Apple’s best in terms of industrial design and usability.

The reason I’m now part of the PowerBook in-crowd [...]

I finally opened the wallet and grabbed one of the Dell 2005FPW flat-panel displays while they were on special this week…. The major plus about the ACD is that it would have totally kept the Apple look and feel consistent…. Was it really worth $350 more to get a display that completely matched my system?As you can tell, I’m not so blinded by the allure of Apple.

Their panties are getting all in a bunch just because TiVo is going to offer out-of-the-box support for downloading shows to iPods and PSPs. I say right on TiVo.There are quite a few programs out in the wild right now that will allow consumers to do just this very thing…. for making this easier for the non-techies out there who would love to watch Lost or Veronica Mars on their iPods while they’re on the go.Everyday I realize that the only fair use the entertainment boneheads are interested in is what’s fair to them.

I’d rather focus on using my computer as a tool rather than fighting with it in order to get it operational.While I’ve been able to successfully move away from the menial updating tasks in my everyday computing life, I still have to deal with my family and their desire to buy the cheapest Dell they see advertised in the paper on Sunday. I’ve already set my mom up with a good base of spyware removal and blocking tools (AdAware, Spybot and SpywareBlaster), additional firewall software (ZoneAlarm), a virus scanning and removal tool (AVG Anti-Virus) and a more secure browser platform (FireFox of course).This seems to have kept her secure for the most part; the only real problem with this set up is keeping it up-to-date with patches and new definition files…. The best thing about this is my mom is always nice enough to feed me every time I go over to her house to help with her routine maintenance.I’m sure there are more “geeks” out there who are, by default, the main tech support facilitator for their families.

In a previous entry, I talked about the frustration I had to put up with as I tried to modify a couple of Linksys WRT54G routers in order to get my two ReplayTV’s talking to each other wirelessly…. I took back both of the Linksys routers, and I purchased two Buffalo WHR-HP-G54s to take their place.These Buffalo routers support WDS bridging right out of the box…. I’ll stick with the little bit I know how to do in Terminal here on Mac OS X.If you’re looking for a way to wirelessly connect two or more ReplayTVs, then these Buffalo routers are your best bet.

I’m assuming that it’s impossible to implement via Applescript because you would think someone would’ve done so by now.While I was browsing the Ranchero NNW Scripts page, I found a new listing for a del.icio.us and Cocoalicious tagging script…. Reading about this new script turned me on to Cocoalicious which is an excellent piece of software all Mac owners should have if they use del.icio.us.This new script allows you to post tagged items to del.icio.us by going through the Cocoalicious interface instead of popping up a browser window…. Now I can see something I think will be handy, post it del.icio.us and keep going through all of my feeds.

I’ve been using NetNewsWire for about four months now to keep track of all of my RSS feeds. Before, I was using Bloglines to keep track of my feeds at home and at work. I always knew NNW could sync up with my Bloglines account, so I thought I would give it a try this [...]

For all of you who are married, you know you have to deliver once the wife gets an idea in her idea.So I went about setting up another DVR in a normal fashion…. The only 2 firmware projects that support what I needed (WDS) are HyperWRT and OpenWRT.HyperWRT is the most similar to the stock Linksys firmware out of these two…. I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning on both Saturday and Sunday poring over OpenWRT documentation trying my damnedest to get the routers to talk to each other.After fiddling with both routers most of the day on Sunday, I decided that I was just going to reset everything to the default settings and return the routers.

I did have a DNS problem a few months back, so maybe that’s cropped up again.I always think the worst when I can’t get to a site…. The Supreme Court obviously didn’t think it was a good idea to deregulate the cable lines…. They said it was cool for the Government to seize private property so long as someone had a better use for it.

Over the last week, the iPod nano has been a gigantic topic on the Internets…. All I’m going to say is that I’ve already made plans to sell my iPod mini and Shuffle in order to buy a Black nano…. There are just some weird things MarsEdit does that I don’t like.