Monday Afternoon Archive

  • CrunchGear celebrates National Scoop the Poop week with a Dog-e-Minder giveaway!

    CrunchGear celebrates National Scoop the Poop week with a Dog-e-Minder giveaway!

    It's a fact that if we weren't all so busy blogging about technology that we'd all be busy blogging about dogs. We love dogs! All of you folks out there without dogs are normally deprived of the joy and pleasure associated with dog ownership, but thankfully April 24-30 is <National Scoop the Poop week! This allows everyone to enjoy dogs! And to help you celebrate, CrunchGear is giving away ten Dog-e-Minder electronic dog tags!

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  • It shouldn’t be this difficult to upgrade a hard drive

    It shouldn’t be this difficult to upgrade a hard drive

    You know what's a little more difficult than I first imagined? Upgrading the hard drive in my late 2006 iMac. I had initially wanted to upgrade the hard drive so I could finally dual boot between Mac OS X and Windows 7, since the old drive, a 250GB model, was pretty much filled to capacity. (Trying to run Mac OS X with only ~5GB of free space isn't ideal.) And even though the iMac user manual clearly states that the only user-replacabable parts are the RAM, I figured, “Bah! I think I can handle a simple hard drive replacement.” I did, but not before wishing I had never so much had broken out a screwdriver.

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