Sven LL Rafferty

Macs and PCs are just different. Not just at the operating system level, but even at the hardware side as well. I’ve always felt Apple hardware is a superior design in computer technology but its lack of forward delete on its notebooks has been one con to using a Mac. Now, if you […]

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I’ve been saying since last Christmas here at SvenOnTech that iPods need Wi-Fi for an assortment of reasons. One very strong case for it is wireless syncing. My dream is to have the car parked in the garage and sync from my glove box, but that seems to be just that at this moment. A […]

Ever since I purchased my PowerBook (TiBook) back in 2002, I’ve really come to dislike widescreen displays on computers. I don’t get it. What world are most of you working in? Sure, for movies they’re great but for work? I’m not an accountant so I have no need to go right but rather down. Web […]

When I had Vonage VoIP, I loved its CallVantage feature. It integrated with Outlook and let me select a contact and instantly dial it. Within seconds, my phone was ringing with the call in progress. But when I left Vonage due to lack of a data centers in the 209 area code (which it still […]

Can it be that there’s a way to trick Microsoft’s Windows XP Genuine Certificate of Authority install? Well, maybe. Take a look at my Device Manager from my Parallels Desktop install of Windows XP SP2. Note the devices, which Windows uses to make your configuration unique, are all general notations. Meaning, every Parallels install will […]

Once in a while, you may have a need to rename a few dozen or so files. Be it their file names or file extensions. Either way, if you’re not in need for utility to do this often, paying $20 for A Better Finder Rename (ABFR) is a bit steep, even though it’s probably the […]

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I’ve used many clipboard managers for the Mac from iClip to PopCopy. The latter is the one I stuck with. It was simple, out of the way, and quick.
The good folks at PopCopy have just updated its wonderful software and now have added an extremely useful feature, Hotkey. “Hotkey?” you ask. Yes, hot keys […]

So here I am convincing my friend to ditch his PC and go with a new MacBook Pro for the past month. I loaded him up with the last five months of Macworld and gave him a personal 30-minute demonstration on my MacBook Pro (Rev A). We talked and I answered all his tough questions. […]

So here I am, working next to my MacBook Pro, which has its pretty lid closed and a glowing white light coming from the latch release. “Yup, saving power,” I think as I work on other things. But then I hear the SuperDrive mechanism going and stop what I’m doing to look at the Mac. […]

With the new Intel chips in the super sleek MacBook Pros, one no longer has to worry about working on cold winter days. Slap that baby on your lap and warm up, homies! Now if you’re a bit on the wimpy side and become concerned with the extreme red mark left on your […]

You know, those guys Down Under are a little different than us. Their toilets flush the water down in the opposite direction than ours up here in the States and they drive on the wrong side of the road. Most of the population is on the East Coast and pretty much cattle is […]

Got a podcast and need to interview someone over the ‘net? Not that technical? Don’t really want to use some expensive alternatives available for your Mac? Then look no further than Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder. A tiny little app that just pops up when you need it in Skype and either […]

Microsoft has had its Media Center Edition (MCE) version of Windows for a few years now. Just recently, Microsoft has been pushing it on more machines from Dell, Gateway, and HP sporting the video center from Redmond, Washington. All one has to do is walk into a Best Buy and try out one of the […]

We’ve all read about the mooing and whining of the MacBook Pro and how it’s one pretty hot notebook (and we don’t mean that in the slang term.) For me, I’ve had little issue with my Rev. A MacBook Pro. Sure, I had a battery that gained some weight and bloated out, but […]

So Microsoft thinks it’s got a winner with the release of Windows 5.2, a.k.a. Vista, huh? Heck, some may even like that new glass looking interface that appears somewhat familiar to certain Mac users. If you’re a certain Mac user that feels like dressing things up, like your Vista counter part, then you […]

Dying to really use that ExpressCard slot on the left side of your MacBook Pro? Want to put something in it besides a silly SD Card reader that’s hard to come by? You want speed, you say? Well, dude, jump over to EVDOinfo.com and order your Novatel V640 EVDO ExpressCard today. […]

One thing all Mac users have had to come to accept is that we live in a Windows world. Because of it, file sharing was a major sticky point for OS X when it first appeared and it tried to answer this problem with a UNIX technology called SMB. SMB helps emulate Window […]

So Apple is having its fun calling Vista a copycat and Vista 2.0 Leopard. Kinda reminds me of the Windows95 campaign of the duck thing. But you know what? Leopard ain’t that big of a deal. I mean, let’s look at what’s new.
Spaces: Ya, it’s nice and all but truth is […]