Love 'em or hate 'em, Google is an inextricable part of our lives. While they have many compelling and interesting services (many not always fully baked), the best thing they do, in my opinion, is the same thing they originally did: search. Here are some tips for good searching: You shouldn't ever ...
Great, great speakers
I bought AudioEngine 2 speakers for my desk here at IvanExpert world headquarters, and they are awesome. They're small, great-looking, and above all, incredible sounding for their size, at least when you're sitting in front of them. I recommend the little wedge stands as well. I have these plugged ...
Apple II forever, at least around here
As many of you know, my first computing love was the Apple II, which I was introduced to when I was approximately half my current height. It was Apple's first mass-market computer, and it came with tapes (but we got a floppy disk drive as soon as it was available). Many people think that Apple means ...
Raspberry Pi right now!
A computer I sort of think of as the Apple II of today is the Raspberry Pi, a tiny $35 computer designed for education. It's just...inspiring and fun. If you've got a Pi, you can check out this stuff I've made for it. (Some of these can actually be useful for non-Pi purposes too, if you know what ...
CrashPlan and Java 7 on the Mac
CrashPlan is excellent cloud backup software. However, one issue it has is that it depends on Java, which is a transitional state on Macs. On Macs, CrashPlan is designed to work with Java 6, which is included with Snow Leopard, and downloaded from Apple if needed on Lion and Mountain Lion. One ...
What is a Mac server?
It used to be that a Mac server was something only a systems administrator would ever want to go near. It was a special, expensive version of Mac OS X -- for example, Snow Leopard Server cost $500, as opposed to $129 for the regular version of Mac OS X. And the updates had to be supplied separately, ...