Chris The Mac Guy

If you are reading this, then the nameservers have updated and you are viewing me at my new home.  The story behind this move starts with poor customer service from my previous hosting provider, Vizaweb.  I was wanting to upgrade my account to have more disk space.  I sent several requests to get them to upgrade my account.  The only responses I got back from Vizaweb were nothing but “we’re working on it”.  Almost two months have passed without a response.  I finally made to decision to change providers.  With the plan with my new provider, I had the option to get a new domain name.  So that is how christhemacguy.com was born.  Hopefully with this new blog and domain, I will make more posts…but don’t count on it! 

Whenever Apple releases a new product, it doesn’t take long for someone to tear it apart. Before the first flood of reviews, we get a peek inside.

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In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple’s standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and benchmark tests to gauge the performance and power saving capabilities of each. Videos are used to demonstrate a side-by-side simultaneous boot…

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Ever wonder why gadget store employees push Monster cables like they’re crack? Bitchin’ markups, just like you suspected all along. That’s what we found when a Radio Shack employee sent us his store’s entire inventory list, which included the wholesale and retail price of every item in stock

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At CPAC, Mitt Romney offers his reason for quitting the presidential race: “Size does matter.”

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AT&T’s EDGE and UMTS data networks went down yesterday at 2:30pm Pacific Time for BlackBerry, iPhone and other cell phone data customers in 18 states. Even now the company’s technicians have NO IDEA WHAT CAUSED IT.

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Nate True came up with this (semi) sweet hack that lets you add phone numbers as speed dial icons on your 1.1.3 iPhone home screen. It’s no jailbreak, but the hack is clever and pretty useful. It also supports adding custom pictures for each number.

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Bijan Rezvani either loves his iPhone a little too much or he needs a vacation. The kind of vacation where you wear a straitjacket. Rezvani lost his iPhone on the New York subway, spotted it on the tracks and jumped down to fetch it.

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A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM transactions, showed signs it was on its way late yesterday when the cycle
’s first sunspot appeared in the sun’s Northern Hemisphere, said NOAA.

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