HOWTO: Enable nVidia Graphics on OSX86

So I've been tooling around with OSX on my Sager laptop again and spent a short bit of time running around in circles trying to get my ...Read more »

Steve Jobs tried to woo Linus Trovalds to work for Apple and sack Linux

Torvalds has never met Bill Gates, but around 2000, when he was still working at Transmeta, he met Steve Jobs. Jobs invited him to Apple’s ...Read more »

Confused about iPads in Education

It's been nearly two years since I got my first Asus convertible tablet/netbook, loaded it up with Linux and started kicking it around w...Read more »

Why the Tablet Craze?

I made a post last year titled " The Year of the Tablet Computer ". It is now over half way through 2011 and it seems the touch sc...Read more »

Hacking to make things Usable

I've noticed a disturbing trend occurring with software. Until recent months it was largely limited to closed source software such as iO...Read more »

The Lion has Lost the Magic

For a long time Apple has been known as a company that creates new and innovative products. Now if you have stopped by my blog before you wi...Read more »

Wine vs Native - 3D Performance Benchmarks

In the past I've done Wine on Linux versus native Windows 7 benchmarks for 3D applications . Source engine games are some of my favorite...Read more »

Hackintosh - Apple at a Reasonable Price

So as I mentioned once before the cost of purchasing Apple hardware is outrageous compared to non-Apple hardware. That being said, OSX has ...Read more »

My Beef with the iPad

Now I've written a couple of pieces about the iPad thus far and if you read through them you will see that the device has failed to imp...Read more »

10 Reasons the T91MT is better than the iPad

VS This is no doubt the Year of the Tablet computer . As such I began searching some months ago for a tablet I could add to my ever growing...Read more »

Is Android to Phones as OSX is to PCs?

If you have ever dropped by my page here before odds are you know I am a Linux user and an N900 owner . The former of the two means I often...Read more »

Operating Systems and Market Share Statistics

Did you know that 55% of statistics are made up on the spot? (or maybe it was 68% I don't recall) If you have ever taken a statistics cl...Read more »

Steam Client and Source Games Porting to OSX

So the devil called me this afternoon and said they where having a snowstorm in hell. In other news Valve announced that their revolutionar...Read more »

The Year of the Tablet Computer

There is no denying the fact that we have become a touch-centric society in regards to our technology. Thanks to the "iPhone standard...Read more »

The State of Smart Phones Today

I mentioned in one of my earlier postings this month that I had recently obtained a new smart phone. Now picking out a smart phone is no ea...Read more »

Sending Mixed Messages

Today was my first day back at University and one of my professors is using a piece of web technology called " Wimba Classroom " t...Read more »

Biting Into an Apple

I typically stick to the software end of technology, but every once in awhile I dig out my set of electronics tools and tear into a piece of...Read more »

Why GNU/Linux is ready for the Average User

I spend a fair amount of time on UbuntuForums.org and while poking around there this afternoon I came across this thread . It is no where n...Read more »

Macbook Comparison

I work at the Beverly Arts Center, in Chicago. I have found that many arts people prefer Apple laptops to any other brand. Why is this? The ...Read more »