New to my site is an Amazon Associate store, it’s at www.peterryanconsulting.com/store . I added this store because I have found that generally I cannot get wholesale pricing from distributors that even comes close to the retail prices at Amazon. The power of purchasing scale that Amazon wields is incredible. I have resold hardware from [...]
Ok, so the audience on this topic is small, but there is an audience never the less. The problem, you can’t get your .CBR files to your iPad. This is a problem because if nothing else the iPad is the greatest comic book delivery tool ever created (except comic books of course). The first problem, [...]
The shaking, sweaty, nauseous feeling of dread. If you’ve ever had a drive fail or lost any data due to any kind of error you know the feeling of dread well. Losing data that has value is one of the more awful things that can happen to a computer user, . It’s something that should not [...]
Ok I have an iPad, and its pretty dusty. Embarrassing as that is for me to say I just don’t have as much need for it as I thought I would. I am constantly emailing, constantly researching, and constantly interacting with my MacBook. I’ve thought about trying to leave the MacBook home one day to [...]
Microsoft has done a fine job with the new Office 2011 for Mac, especially with the Outlook component and its integration with Exchange 2010. During the setup auto discovery does a lot of the lifting for you, and all the owa stuff is a non-issue. Some of the users I deployed Outlook for were previously [...]
This week PC World issued a very interesting article comparing the new 11 and 13 inch MacBook Air models to a range of netbook class PC devices. The author, Alex Wawro, does a good job of comparing the devices from the oranges to oranges perspective. Where the article falls a bit short is on comparing the [...]
The Drobo FS and the Drobo 4-bay model using the USB attached DroboShare provide LAN storage and file sharing, . These models use a proprietary server platform called “Drobo Manager”. Setting it up is easy and once it’s running your Drobo shows up as available network storage for any authorized LAN user. Going the next step [...]
Apple released update 10.6.4 this week and as was the case with 10.6.3 there are a lot of problems cropping up with many users. If you didn’t experience any difficulties with your upgrade to 10.6.3 great, but for many of us it was a challenging week. It was so challenging for most users that Apple [...]
The Mac Mini Server is one of the cooler products I think Apple has made in a while. Sure I love my iPhone and am itching for my own iPad, but when you dive into the Mini Server it is really pretty outstanding. I use one for my home office and “sandbox” for experimentation. It’s [...]
Working with Dreamweaver can be great, and it can be frustrating. I use Dreamweaver CS4 to manage a handful of sites, one of which is blossoming into a fairly content and edit heavy site. Stimola Literary Studio (www.stimolaliterarystudio.com) is a professional website containing news, information about the company, information about clients, and lots of other [...]