by Ty Davison | Dec 21, 2009 | News & Commentary
So it turns out that versus the status quo, the just-passed Senate health bill saves $132 billion over the next 10 years according to the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO). (You can read the report here.) It also covers 31 million more Americans than the...
by Ty Davison | Oct 9, 2009 | Apple
If you do much listening to music via iTunes, SRS makes a really cool and relatively inexpensive plug-in called iWow Premium that radically improves the sound. There’s a free 14-day trial, and trust me, you will be amazed at the sonic difference.
by Ty Davison | Oct 8, 2009 | Apple
To paraphrase John Lennon: Sweet Rosetta fat she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. When Apple made the switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips several years ago they had the solve a daunting problem: PowerPC code doesn’t run on Intel chips....
by Ty Davison | Sep 28, 2009 | Apple
I bought a 2.26 8-core Xeon Mac Pro recently. I intend to use it for music and video production, two tasks for which it is well-suited. I call it “Big Iron” since that’s what it is: A huge chunk of metal that takes over the whole side of my desk....
by Ty Davison | Sep 12, 2009 | News & Commentary
While I’m generally in favor of people exercising their First Amendment rights—it typically yields good comedy when it comes from the political arena—it’s hard to take seriously the folks (aka “Tea baggers”) showing up today in Washington...