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A very Merry Christmas to you all from the Fessendens.

Preamble: I know there hasn’t been a lot of technical content on here lately. This is in stark contrast to that recent trend. I just purchased a Compaq Presario F730US laptop, ideally for my wife’s Christmas present. This wasn’t really even the laptop I wanted, but it was what was available at the time. My […]

Most times, I really don’t realize what a nerd I am… or my family. Surprisingly enough, they are pretty nerdy too. I learned that this weekend. You see, this weekend around 10am on saturday morning, my internet service stopped. It seems there was some sort of problem with low voltage on the repeater outside the […]

I finally found my OS X 10.4 media, so today I decided that I was going to upgrade my new/old iBook. I have a usb dvd drive that I have done OS X installs form before, so I hook it up and give it a shot. No matter what I tried, I could not install […]

While most people are getting a new Nokia N810 or a EeePC, I opted for a much cheaper techie gift. I have been wanting a beater laptop to lug around when I needed to. Something I could afford to break or lose or whathaveyou. Well, a friend was selling off his old 12 inch iBook […]

I know I haven’t been very talkative here lately. I had taken some time to unplug. it seemed that I haven’t, by my recollection, actually read a nontechnical book / novel in a couple years. Well, while walking through the mall with my family, I noticed a new and interesting looking Dean Koontz novel called […]

A new version of PodSync (uses BashPodder) is out and available for download. This new version is for OS2008 on the Nokia N800/N810. It’s pretty slick. And, if you, like me, are still running OS2007, you can find the older versions off of PodSync’s Home Pages.