Joe Angrisano

Member since: May 16th, 2006

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New My Book external HDs from WD (TUAW.com)

Sep 21st 2007 1:44PM I've owned a great deal of external drives in my time and one of these has been a My Book. I purchased it mainly based on Western Digital's reasonably good reputation and the nice styling of the case design. The truth is, however, the drive lasted only one year before experiencing the dreaded click. A quick Google shows this as a fairly common issue, though it's much more prevalent in their Elements line of external drives.

My experience could likely be a fluke, but it's worth mentioning since many others have shared my experience.

Fix the Leopard folders? (TUAW.com)

Sep 12th 2007 10:32AM They're hideous. Just my opinion, but those are about the ugliest Apple icons I've ever seen.

Handbrake 0.9 released with speed, quality enhancements and more (TUAW.com)

Aug 19th 2007 9:07PM Very nice, though I still wish they'd replace that ugly pineapple icon with Model Concept's Icon:

http://samuraicoder.net/handbrake_replacement_icon

It's so much nicer than the built in icon and its a pain to keep replacing it on my own every time they do an update.

Missing Sync for Windows Mobile 4.0 adds WM6 support (TUAW.com)

Aug 1st 2007 8:29AM I've suffered through about four rounds of upgrades with this software yet my "supported device" just never worked. Sure it would connect, it would even try to sync but all it ever did reliably was erase all my contacts and blank out my calendar.

So until I join the iPhone crowd I've discovered a unique solution. I joined Plaxo (the free online calendar and contacts site) and I installed ActiveSync under VMware Fusion. So now I sync under fusion and Plaxo takes care of the rest by keeping my Mac in sync with my PC.

It's not perfect, you get only one calendar, but it's better than Missing Sync ever was and it's free.

Agendus coming to Windows Mobile (Download Squad)

Nov 26th 2006 8:45PM I agree 100%. Ever since converting from Palm to Windows Mobile I've been searching for a clean, simple replacement for the calendar. Something that cleans up the UI and makes weekly and monthly view easier to read.

Every single replacement I've found adds a hundred features, make the UI far more complex and adds icons all over the place. I don't need thousands of options for meetings on my handheld. I need something that makes the few appointments I do have easy to read.

Apple Matters: Vista isn't so bad after all? (TUAW.com)

Oct 5th 2006 2:44PM I've been a Mac User since the early 90's but as of late, Apple's inability to make a desktop Mac that's appealing to me (I want a low-end tower not a $2500 beast) caused me to give Windows Vista a try. I built myself a very speedy 3ghz Mini PC. It's aluminum and about twice the size of a mini and features 256 mb GPU with dual monitor support, Litescribe DVD burner, 300gb hard drive - the works. It cost me about $500.

The goal was to switch to Windows but even if I didn't, I'd at least end up with a gaming machine. So I gave it a shot and let me say this, Windows Vista isn't terrible. Not by a longshot. Visually it's a huge step up from XP and in many respects feels very Mac-like. The betas I was in were very buggy however and there were too many productivity things which kept me from using the setup instead of my G5. Key commands, configuration options, the little things.

Had Vista been more stable when I used it I might not have switched back. I loved having access to all that software, being able to run a REAL version of Quicken not worrying about accessing web pages for my bank. It was great. But as of right now I'm hanging in there with the G5. I still prefer my Mac.