Fox To Adapt Torchwood For The USA?

The first couple of series may have been roundly mocked in the UK. But they were a smash hit in the US, breaking viewer records at BBC America and driving a large audience to the cable channel. Torchwood, adult sci-fi alien-chasing spinoff of Doctor Who was one of the very few shows to have a […]

How do I migrate my information to a new Macintosh?

First, the brick & mortar Apple Stores will offer to migrate your data for free, if the new system is purchased from them, the main hassel is the wait, and bringing in the old system. Alternatively, on the new system, as soon as it is booted will offer to migrate the old computers data. All […]

Why is USB slower than Firewire?

Take this quote from Macworld: When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on […]

A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs

Created with the same MediaWiki software that was developed for the Wikipedia project, AllPinouts.org is a wiki that allows users to get and share information about hardware interfaces, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different electronic devices (i.e. cellular phones, GPS, PDA, game consoles, etc.). All text is available […]

Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]

From the clip pad files from 2008 & Life Hacker… A trick that I keep intending to do for cable management… Hide Your Cables in Your Baseboards and Crown Molding [DIY]: Hide your networking and television cables with WireTracks, a wire management solution that hides your messy cables behind crown molding and baseboards. The WireTracks […]

Sci Fi Channel to become Syfy: Thank the lawyers?

And the SciFi Network continues it’s slow but fatal slide down the hill… According to CNet… Sci Fi Channel to become Syfy: Thank the lawyers?: “In perhaps the most ill-advised branding move since New Coke, the network’s basic-cable Sci Fi Channel will be renamed the phonetically similar Syfy on July 7.” SciFi, Z Rank monster […]