From my IBM PCjr, to my Commodore 64, Mac Classic, Mac LC III, string of PCs, and finally to my current Mac PowerBook G4 — 20 years of nerd-dom — I have never had a complete, proper backup. Dangerous, I know. I did backup my iTunes database on DVDs once, but that was a couple [...]
Posts Tagged ‘leopard’
Review: LaCie F.A. Porsche 500 GB USB 2.0 drive
Posted in OS X Leopard, Product review, tagged Amazon.com, LaCie, leopard, Tiger, Time Machine on January 19, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Review: WD Passport doesn’t work with PowerBook G4
Posted in Product review, tagged leopard, storage on January 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In preparation for my impending upgrade from Tiger to Leopard — and because (I am embarrassed to say) I never back up my PowerBook G4 — I picked up this 160 GB Western Digital Passport portable hard drive today at Best Buy for $99. Let me cut to the chase: This drive does not work [...]
A brief respite from my usual pointless trash…
Posted in iLife, iTunes, OS X Leopard, OS X Tiger, Steve Jobs, zombies, tagged 10.4.11, Kool-Aid, leopard, MacBook, manhood, Software Update, Tiger, zombies on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hopefully by now, Dear Reader, you have discovered that Apple Zombies is a website about three things: Apple Computers, and the experiences of Apple newbies like me, Apple Zombies, those self-absorbed know-it-alls who feel a sense of superiority while using their Apples, and believe that anything Steve Jobs does, up to and including his choice [...]
New OS… already?!
Posted in OS X Leopard, Uncategorized, zombies, tagged brains, iMac, leopard, OS 10.5, scott, Software Update, zombies on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. That was quick. Apple has released the first update to its much ballyhooed OS 10.5 Leopard system. The new update, dubbed 10.5.1, at just under 40 MB, addresses some basic fixes and does some dusting and cleaning in the OS. Details on the changes can be found here. It took me just a few [...]
