The Quest for VR

The Quest for VR

Several months ago, before they started flying off the shelves and now are practically non-existent, I purchased an Oculus Quest virtual headset. My experience with it has been eye-opening. Give the developers their due, they got it right. Using it was natural from...
Catalina on a Hot Tin Roof

Catalina on a Hot Tin Roof

I installed the newest Mac OS two days ago on my iMac after a very uncharacteristic delay. I mean, not being able to run 32-bit applications? What’s up with that? I mean, abandoning the floppy drive was one thing, removing the stereo mini-jack from the iPhones was...
I Do Not Subscribe to That!

I Do Not Subscribe to That!

I object to this move to a subscription-based model of software renting. Yes, I know it’s been coming for a number of years, and I hung dearly onto my copy of Adobe CS 5.5 for as long as I possibly could. But the tighter my grip, the more software slipped...
Kids, don’t try this at home (unless you have to)

Kids, don’t try this at home (unless you have to)

There I was, happily working away on my 27″ iMac (mid 2010) quad-core i5, 12GB RAM, 1TB SSD drive, built-in optical drive when the display started throwing up… patterned squares of color. A couple of reboots fixed the problem. Then it started happening...
Independence(less) Day

Independence(less) Day

Ah, the good old days… Remember when the family would gather in front of the radio to listen to the latest from the Green Hornet… whoops, wrong era. Remember when the family would gather in front of the TV to watch the latest episode of Happy Days? Closer,...
April Advice

April Advice

It’s been over a year now since my original post – have you added your SSL certificate yet? Seeing more “Unsecure” notices in your browser? Are your clients seeing that notice on your site? My advice hasn’t changed from a year ago, but the need has grown a...