2005 June

There are plenty of reasons you might want to transfer music tracks from an iPod to your PC. If your hard drive fails, your iPod may be your only backup. If you purchase tracks from iTunes Music Store, Apple explicitly permits transferring those files to up to 5 computers. You may want to transfer your […]

The growing proliferation of subscription music services like Napster To Go and Yahoo Music is creating some confusion for customers wanting to burn CDs from tracks they either purchased or think they purchased rather than merely subscribing for temporary access. In a recent email, I was asked why a CD burned using tracks purchased at […]

Moving away from friends and family can be a frustrating adjustment at any age. We take for granted the availability of friends and family who live across town or short daytrips from our own homes. It’s not until you move away and realize that Sunday dinner with grandparents is no longer possible. With wide availability […]

Having a GPS receiver can be useful for all kinds of reasons. In car navigation systems using GPS make it harder to get lost in route to a destination. Linking a GPS to your laptop makes you a one-man (or woman) geo-locating machine. Taking a GPS receiver on hiking and camping trips may help avoid […]

When you step out into the great outdoors armed with a digital camera and a smile, sun block and mosquito repellant aren’t the only things on your required packing list. There are a few tricks to shooting photos outdoors that differ slightly from indoor photography you may be used to. I know most of my […]

Remember high school genetics? Brown eyes were dominant and blue were recessive, and if you had two brown eyed parents and they had four kids, all of them would come out with brown eyes unless mom messed around with the milkman. Or something like that.
If making one of those eye color grids is too bothersome, […]

Audible.com is one of my favorite sources of great audio content. From audio books to on demand NPR programming to audio versions of some of the best magazines on the market, Audible offers a great selection. It’s currently my longest running subscription to anything digital. Audible isn’t without flaws. Their proprietary file format isn’t compatible […]

Since the Canon Digital Rebel / EOS-300D revolutionised the DSLR market in 2003, the company has been working hard to improve on what was and still is a very successful DSLR. In the past year, several rivals from other well known brands have appeared, with the immensely successful Nikon D70 as their strongest competitor. Now […]

While the crowd is busy going wild over Apple’s decision to use Intel processors for the next round of Mac hardware slated for who knows when, here’s something more immediately useful for any Mac owner. Recording audio or editing home movies requires a great deal of processor power and as much memory as your Mac […]

I was recently asked how to burn several episodes of a popular television show to a signle DVD. While more than one method will deliver a usable end result, some methods are better than others. Authoring DVDs is a fairly straight forward process, but if you forget any of the steps required you may end […]