I use a product that just caught my attention in the last month and has now become absolutely invaluable–Dropbox. It’s one of those products that I can’t see getting very much better–it’s almost perfect already. It’s like a folder out on the internet, accessible from all your devices (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Blackberry). Unlike …
Category: I.T.
Oct 06
“Are you the Good Jimmy or the Bad Jimmy?”
The customer asked me this seriously, without the slightest bit of irony. “My name’s Dan,” I replied. The whole thing was rather curious. Jimmy was our lead tech at the time, and he is legitimately one of the nicest guys ever. For some reason the customer had gotten it into her head that 1) Jimmy …
Aug 24
Quotable: John Moltz on Acrylic’s sale to Facebook
“Of course, if Google or Facebook or Microsoft or Victor Von Doom showed up at my door with a big sack full of money and another sack full of blow and another sack full of hot cosplayers, rest assured I would jump into the car with them without a single care about whether I had left on the …
Apr 10
fizzlesprung
n., presumably means, ‘malfunctioning.’ A customer called the other day saying, “This darn computer is fizzlesprung.”
Apr 01
Lustin’ for a bustin’
Remember back in the old days when gullible people would email you ridiculous urban legends without checking the facts? You know the ones I mean: out of context photo with plenty of JPEG compression artifacts, inaccurate descriptions, poor spelling, lots of all caps and exclamation points, and a story that just seems a wee bit …
Mar 15
Disable stupid Lion feature
I used my first Mac in 1984 and absolutely loved it, and I’ve been using a Mac daily since 1997. At work I have the privilege of running a 24″ iMac, along with my standard Windows boxes running XP and Win 7. I recently installed Apple’s newest OS, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). It doesn’t …
Mar 03
Wind beneath my wings
One time Kaleb and I went to work on a printer. While we were there, a young female doctor was in the room. The three of us bantered back and forth for a while until the printer was finally fixed and it began to spit out backed up print jobs. Doctor: “You guys are the …
Feb 26
“Yay! You have provided magic!”
This is what one of my customers told me this morning when I fixed her problem without actually doing anything.
