Tag: geekery
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Hard drive upgrade for my laptop
Upgraded the hard drive in my 2012 MacBook Pro to an SSD. This post is about the bumps in the process!
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Attention, fellow Android-inclined geeks
Hey, Android geeks! Anybody successfully set up an SD card to be a bootable Android install? Talk to me if you have useful data on how to do this.
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Initial impressions of Yosemite
Initial impressions of Yosemite, now that I’ve got it installed on my MacBook. So far, so good.
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Initial impressions of iOS 8
Initial thoughts on iOS 8 after having it on my phone and iPad for a couple of days now. So far survey says: not bad!
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Yahoo broke mailing lists, oops
In which Dara and I discover that oops, Yahoo’s recent anti-spam settings are making life difficult for Yahoo subscribers on mailing lists.
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Blogging at Here Be Magic today!
Hey folks! Surfacing from Norwescon long enough to report that my very first contribution to the Here Be Magic blog has gone up today! I’m being relaxed and groovy, and talking a bit about Valor of the Healer as well as Faerie Blood, and mentioning a few of the ways I’m shooting for equality and…
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iTunes 10 user? Annoyed by moving of Close/Minimize/Zoom buttons?
Found a fix for putting those buttons back in the configuration that EVERY OTHER MAC PROGRAM STILL USES, with a quick Google. Open up a Terminal window and type in the following line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean YES Then restart iTunes and the Close/Minimize/Zoom buttons should be back in their previous arrangement. Yay!
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Ever wondered what the inside of a Macbook looks like?
Wonder no more! My laptop had been making these weird rattly noises for a while now, as well as running periodically far hotter than it seemed like it should. Replacing the hard drive didn’t help (although it did double my hard drive capacity, which of course was awesome). Neither did taking a can of electronics…
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The only acceptable use for DRM
I’d been aware for some time that a lot of libraries had embraced the ability to check out ebooks, but not until this weekend did I get around to actually trying it. I was quite pleased to discover that both of our local libraries, the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, provide…
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Really now, I just want stuff to work
Is that too much to ask? Grf. Case in point: my computer surgery from yesterday. Winnowill’s hard drive had started making disturbing, unusually loud noises when spinning up out of hibernation. This concerned me, especially given that everybody I mentioned this to said “yep, time to get a new hard drive”. So yesterday I went…