Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

We all accumulate many hard drives worth of data that has to be backed up.  As they say about hard disk drives, it is a matter of when they would fail and not if.
Like many other (serious) photographers, I worked my way up from software driven copies of data to an inexpensive NAS, nearly ran [...]

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 22:20 | 6 comments
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Between me, my wife, my boss and another friend, I have seen six Macbook / pro battery failures.  While batteries are consumable items and their life degrades with age, you expect the battery life to be reasonable at least for an year or two.
Often batteries die much earlier and of course you do not know [...]

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 12:13 | 0 comments
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The silent button on my ~10 month old iPhone 3g broke.  Turns out this is a common occurance.  I read that Apple phone customer service is giving mixed responses as to warranty coverage for this.
In my case, I walked into an Apple Store and it was covered by warranty – of course I told the [...]

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 11:50 | 0 comments
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