Why I Hate The Macbook Pro, Situation Rectified.
November 12, 2009 by James Pickett
Filed under Gear
The original post, Why I Hate The Macbook Pro, was a terrible truth of peril about two years of struggling with a bad machine. It should be know that after two weeks of discussions and phone calls with the executive customer service team, the situation has been completely rectified. The responsible parties for fixing my [...]
Continue reading »Palm Pre 48 Hour Initial Review
July 2, 2009 by James Pickett
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If you don’t know, I am a Palm power user since the days of black and white handspring Treo’s. Most people have owned fewer palm devices in their lifetime than I had to replace from heavy use last year alone. The advent of the Palm smart phones was a huge breakthrough for mobile professionals that [...]
Continue reading »Burton Jeremy Jones 156 Snowboard Review
March 26, 2009 by James Pickett
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At the beginning of this season I was forced to make a difficult decision about which snowboard to ride. Since it has been many years since my last time on a mountain, there was much research to be done. There was one more small factor that had to play into this decision, as a photographer, [...]
Continue reading »Why I Hate The Macbook Pro-GIVEAWAY
March 11, 2009 by James Pickett
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This is a followup to one of my first articles here on America The Lost, “Should I incinerate my Macbook Pro”. None of the actual problems were in the first post, so this article has been created to share them with you (by request). It seems I am not the only one that is having [...]
Continue reading »The Scatterbrained Professional’s Best Friend, Sony ICD-UX70
February 24, 2009 by James Pickett
Filed under Gear
It took me a little bit of time, but at this point this is the only voice recorder I can find that is Mac compatible right out of the package, and requires no additional software. Some companies are charging you for this software, so be careful when looking at “so called” mac compatible voice recorders.
This little gem [...]
Continue reading »Should I Incinerate My Macbook Pro?
February 23, 2009 by James Pickett
Filed under Gear
To give you a little background, my computer knowledge isn’t exactly limited. Having completed MCSE training, I have a very intimate knowledge of hardware, and the windows operating system, enough to push an entire network if deemed necessary. Once you are trained in this manner it makes it extremely easy to understand market trends, new [...]
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