by Aaron Crabtree | May 30, 2012 | Blog, Technology
When was the last time you cooked without the microwave? In our fast paced culture, the microwave fits perfectly; it cooks nothing well but it does it quickly. Does that sound like life? We need to concentrate more on the depth of a few things than the shallowness of...
by Aaron Crabtree | May 27, 2012 | Apple, Battery Life, Blog, iPhone, Technology
As of June, 2012 I have owned an iPhone 4 for 18 months. In the past month the battery life has dramatically shortened. A full charge in the morning is down to 40% or less by 5 PM. I tried all of the normal tricks to improve battery life but it was obvious that the...
by Aaron Crabtree | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Data backup, PC Hardware
Hitachi has a line of external USB hard drives that are appearing now. They are fairly cheap, come in 1 and 2 TB versions, and they are large. (The size is not really a positive…) Anyway, they come with very nice drives inside (The 2TB version has a 7K3000 6Gbps...
by Aaron Crabtree | May 7, 2012 | Blog, PC Hardware, Projectors, Technology, Video
Toshiba doesn’t include instructions in the projector manual to reset the lamp timer. Instead, they include the instructions with the lamp. That’s fine, unless you buy a generic lamp. And until you reset the lamp timer you will be shown a message every...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 9, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware
If you want to connect a hard drive to your Apple Airport Extreme router, you need to format it using the the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and format the partition as Apple Filing System (AFS) journeled. The problem is that Disk Utility formats external drives as Master...
