My current laptop is almost 3 years old. I know it’s time to replace it. Which for me is actually a way of saying that I plan to give it to my Mom. But how do you know when it’s time to upgrade? The decision can be difficult.
So I thought I’d provide a method for those of you less in-tune to your computing needs to determine if your Mac needs upgrading.
How to tell when you need a new Mac
- No one answers at Aldus Tech Support anymore.
- Your’e still running System 6 because you’re waiting for “all the bugs to be worked out” of System 7.
- Let’s face it chumly. That SE/30 isn’t the dream machine it once was.
- The Lead-Acid battery in that Mac Portable is now a bio-hazard.
- “Color monitors!”
- Your current model is the butt of constant jokes on “MacBreak Weekly.”
- My Mom has a newer Mac than you.
- Two words: floppy disk.
- Your Mac is on display at the local Apple Store, albeit as an aquarium.
- By the time your machine boots up the conference at TED has ended.
Soooo way back in the day I used MusicMatch to rip CDs to mp3. (This is pre-pre-pre-iTunes) And when I started converting I neglected to turn on “auto numbering” when each track was ripped. As as result lots of my CDs have songs with the wrong titles or won’t playback in Album order.
As a precursor to our AppleTV arriving I have decided to “re-rip” the ones that aren’t done properly. Guess what? This is a boatload of CDs. I am guessing it is in the 150 to 200 range. I started last night and so far have about 30 done. This is gonna take a few days.
One weird thing I noticed is that iTunes does not offer a simple way to “re-scan” your library. Anybody got any tips on that?
Oh yeah, it’s my birthday. Not that I’m bummed or anything but I am old enough to get to the point where I think “what the hell am I doing with my life!” I have a wonderful wife and daughter (is she the world’s cutest?) but have a crappy job.
Available for hire: Smart, hard-working, developer, looking for full-time development job. Will gladly work scores of overtime if he is doing something he enjoys (Java? C#?)
Maybe a trip to WWDC would cheer me up?
Smoke em’ high and inside.
Sparky
I am addicted to Podcasts.
I just got a new iPod Nano a couple months ago and now find myself using it almost solely for podcasts. Being the geek that I am I grab a ton of content from TwiT and CNet. Now I am running out of time during the day to listen to everything I download. So I have to come up with a shorter list of what I can take the time to hear.
See-ya
The first to go were the non-tech shows. The SModCast with Kevin Smith, while pretty entertaining, got the axe on Sunday. That freed up 1.5 hours of time for me. But then that was quickly replaced with MacBreak Weekly which often runs that long (and longer). Then I sadly junked a very cool podcast based about Jazz Great John Coltrane called the TraneCast. I miss this one a lot so we will see if I can keep it off the list. But it’s fish or cut bait time here folks.
On The Bubble
I hate to say it but the excellent “Buzz Out Loud” is on the bubble. This show has it all, great news and rumors, paired up with funny and insightful hosts. But it’s roughly about 1/2 hour everyday and that 1/2 comes out of time I can spend with my daughter Piper (Is she the world’s cutest?). That 1/2 hour means I can maybe cram in a whole episode of TwiT before bed without making my wife upset.
What do you do? How do you keep your list of podcasts to a manageable level?
Smoke em’ high and inside,
Sparky
HD and Apple TV
Looking to finally get an HDTV this spring in order to try out AppleTV and trying to merge all of the various content we have. Pam (my wife) and I have a boatload of digital photos of our daughter (Piper) and I am in the final process of converting all of our music to .mp3. So the Apple TV seems to be a inexpensive solution for “converging” all of that. I noticed that the AppleTV hard drive is only 40 megs. At MacWorld the Apple rep I spoke to said that the AppleTV copies everything “to itself” before displaying it. If that’s so 40 megabytes is not enough drive space. Does anybody know if this is in fact correct?
All ATwitter
Crap! I am getting addicted to Twitter at an alarming rate. Only problem I have seen so far is the number of people who post stuff that I really don’t want to read/know about. I dropped one guy off my friends list only because he kept posting about “getting laid” and the like. Am I just getting too old?
Cup O’ Joe
Trying like heck to get a new job. I really want to get a Java programming position but nearly all of the positions I see want real senior people who have done nothing but Java for like 10 years. My problem is I have worked in numerous languages for about the same amount of time, Java, JSP, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, etc., and I am having a bit of a time getting people to take a chance on me. Does anybody out there have an opinion on certifications? For example, I was thinking of taking the SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer) test to see if that would help me land a new job. Anybody have any experience in that arena?
Gotta run for now. Smoke em’ high and inside.
Sparky
