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Woke up this morning to find that the Internet connection here had gone down. I looked on the router, and it didn’t have a WAN connection to the wireless modem, which I thought was kind of strange. The modem is in an unfinished part of our basement (in a cabinet) right next to [...]

I’d like to introduce a new Widget called Dash Monitors that I’ve created in the past week or so for the Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger. It’s been tested pretty extensively on the latest developer release of Tiger, but I can’t guarantee it will work on any later versions of Tiger as it’s [...]

Well, this is the first chance I’ve gotten to post since my Dual 2.5Ghz G5 arrived last Tuesday. Let’s just say I’ve been having a lot of fun with the new machine the past few days. The speed is quite amazing, and it’s faster than I was expecting it to be. This [...]

Over on the Cult of Mac blog, check out what happens when you have a desk with a glass top and the glass breaks! I couldn’t imagine walking into my office to find that heap of a mess with all my hardware on the floor.

Speaking of hardware… Most of the pieces [...]

Back in June, I posted on getting an Ultra 10 and commented on the lack of a freeware program today comparable to XEarth back in the day. Well, awhile back, I finally found one that has a beautiful display of earth with the option to download current cloud maps and locations of storms. [...]

Well, the time has come to give my trusty 667Mhz TiBook some rest. I just ordered a new G5 today. Here are the specs:

Dual 2.5Ghz G5
1.5Gb of RAM
250Gb Hard Drive
8x SuperDrive
ATI Radeon 9800XT with 256Mb video RAM
Bluetooth module
20″ LCD Cinema Display
HP All-In-One Printer, Scanner, Copier

Apple has it’s rebate promotion going for HP printers, [...]

Eric Sink, who has written a lot of different articles about starting a small software business, recently wrote one that hit home for me here at Gaucho Software. The article talks about what he learned after a month of starting his own Micro-ISV, or single-developer software company. His situation is a bit different [...]

In case you haven’t heard, Linksys recently released a “network storage link” called the NSLU2. Basically it’s a box that you can plug in up to two external USB 2.0 drives and it serves them out NAS style. The box is running a stripped down version of Linux, which gives hackers interesting opportunities [...]

This past weekend, Katrina had a conference up in Traverse City and I decided to tag along since I have been wanting to see more of Michigan. We had a great time up there. It’s a very beautiful part of the state, especially now that it is autumn. They have a few [...]

Well, I just wasted about 5 hours of my life trying to figure out a problem I was having with frameworks, bundles, and my new app. There is a nice way to embed frameworks into an application, as shown in an excellent video tutorial by Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch. The problem comes when embedding [...]