Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 D Focus Mode Lock Switch Repair
March 07, 2020I recently picked up a used Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 D lens off Ebay to serve as a portrait and telephoto lens in my arsenal. I got a really good deal on it and ended up...
Trip Report: Rise of the Resistance Launch
February 21, 2020I recently traveled to Walt Disney World to check out the new Rise of the Resistance ride and re-visit some old favorites. This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
Running Mac OS 9 on Catalina
February 13, 2019A little while back I came upon a tool posted by Edward Mendelson at Columbia University that neatly packaged SheepSaver with a pre-installed image of Mac OS 9. I immediately downloaded it and stashed it...
Airpods
December 21, 2016Introduction When Apple first announced the AirPods back in September, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them. For years I’ve been using JayBird Freedom headphones as my primary bluetooth headphones, and switching between...
HTML to Notes.app Exporter for El Capitan
June 18, 2015Today I was playing around with El Capitan's new Notes app, and was interested to see if it was possible to export notes from Evernote as HTML and ingest them into Notes. I came up...
More on the MacBook Logic Board
March 13, 2015I had some more thoughts on the new MacBook's logic board that didn't fit so well into my post from yesterday. The new tiny low-power logic board from the new MacBook could open up a...
An ARM Mac
March 12, 2015With the launch of the new MacBook, I'm starting to think that the ARM-based Mac might soon become a reality. People have been talking about it and speculating on its launch for years, but now...
Backing the Pebble Time
March 03, 2015Today I backed the Pebble Time project on Kickstarter, fully knowing that the Apple watch will be coming out in just a few months. I made the decision to go with Pebble on this round...
Fixing iMessage on Yosemite for Hackintoshes
October 19, 2014A number of people have been reporting problems getting iMessage to work on their newly upgraded hackintosh running Yosemite. I'm happy to report that I managed to get it working! Here's what I did. Make...
Flying Toasters is Back
August 01, 2014I've been looking for a while for a version of the flying toasters screensaver from After Dark that works on Mavericks. I found one! ...
Building my own Mac Pro
July 24, 2014Intro It became apparent this summer that my MacBook, my venerable workhorse of many years, was having a hard time keeping up with what I needed it to do. OpenCV projects were running with some...
Why I'm Building a Mac
July 19, 2014You might think I'm crazy for wanting to build my own Mac (Hackintosh). It seems a little strange today what with Apple laptops and desktops being as good as they are, and you'd be right....
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