Making Macbook Air with 128GB SSD usable with Bootcamp

I recently got a new Macbook Air 11" (the 2012 version) and loaded it with goodies like 8GB ram and 2GHz Core i7. What I DIDN’T upgrade was the internal SSD. My config came with 128GB SSD and I refused to pay $300+ to upgrade it to…

Icepdf Alternative to CFPDF for High Resolution PDF Thumbnails

I ran into the same problem that many have with generating high resolution thumbnails from a PDF file. Using CFPDF, the options for scale and high resolution do nothing. The reason is that the included jpedal java library…

iPad Mini: Worth it or Stupid ?

I keep up to date on new mobile devices, party because I love gadgets, and partly because my job is all about mobile productivity. The rumors about the iPad mini have been around for a while, and are usually quickly followed by Steve Job’s famous discourse about how there…

Internet Ettiquette: A Lesson in Good vs Bad

or “How TheOatmeal.com used obscenities to teach a moral lesson the effective and painful way”