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Another ‘Switch’

by Ben Saren on May Sun, 2008 in Computers

Greg Sterling, well known and highly regarded local media blogger at Screenwerk.com, just announced his own switch from PC to Mac. Just another example of the hole opened by Microsoft’s Vista failure, and a great example of usability and stability trumping price.

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Migration from Drupal to Wordpress.com Complete

Migration from Drupal to Wordpress.com Complete

by Ben Saren on May Sun, 2008 in Computers

Well, I can proudly say that in less than 24 hours, and not without frustration and a few bouts of spilled beer, I managed to get Your Suspect 100% off of Drupal and off of Network Solutions, and onto the free Wordpress.com system. I was shocked with out few resources there were available to me, [...]

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Help Me Migrate from Drupal

Help Me Migrate from Drupal

by Ben Saren on May Sat, 2008 in Computers, New Media and Web 2.0, Uncategorized

I’m entirely fed up with hosting my own blog. When I first started this blog I had a geek moment – I wanted to control every aspect of it and perhaps grow it into something beyond a blog. I chose Drupal, and have been hosting it on Network Solutions. Well, today, I don’t care and [...]

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I am now MacBen

by Ben Saren on Mar Fri, 2008 in Computers

How come no one ever told me how cool Mac’s were before now? I kid! I’m already getting “I told you so!” emails, and I’m not embarassed to say, “you were right!” After being extremely frightened about making “the switch” as they call it, I jumped in head first and did it. Thankfully I had [...]

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I’m Converting to Mac… I Think

by Ben Saren on Mar Wed, 2008 in Computers

So, I think I can say I’m ready to convert to a Mac. I’m not 100% convinced because frankly I’m just frightened about it. But I think I’m going to talk myself into it in this blog entry. Here we go…
I’ve been using computers since the days of, well, since before there was a Windows, [...]

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Loving Xobni

by Ben Saren on Mar Tue, 2008 in Computers

I read about Xobni a while back on TechCrunch. I was immediately intrigued but I wasn’t able to get my hands on it. I recently downloaded the beta and less than 48 hours later, I’m already huge fan! It’s a little buggy and I think it might be bogging Outlook down a bit, but it’s [...]

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Mossberg Likes Leopard, But I’m a Windows Guy, I think.

by Ben Saren on Oct Thu, 2007 in Computers

So Mossberg digs Leopard, and the review is pretty cool. I gotta tell you, I have an IBM ThinkPad (OK, Lenovo ThinkPad), and it came with Vista preinstalled. For the most part, Vista is OK. No real complaints, but nothing to really rave about either. I also have Office 2007, which I really love. But [...]

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Choosing Drupal

by Ben Saren on Jul Thu, 2007 in CitySquares, Computers

So today we hired our first full time engineer. (for those of you who expressed interest in the job, thank you!) And in doing so we came to a resolution about technology, and then some actually. We decided to choose Drupal as our platform of choice for the future Citysquares.com. After much deliberation, debating, discussing, [...]

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Google Reader Going “Offline”

Google Reader Going “Offline”

by Ben Saren on Jun Thu, 2007 in Computers, New Media and Web 2.0

Wow wow wow, now I’m really impressed. I’ve long searched for an RSS reader that is a) free and b) simple that provides offline reading capabilities. I’m not a fan of the version built into Outlook 2007 – not at all. In fact, although I imported my RSS feed (OMPL) into Outlook (from Google Reader), [...]

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Google and the Sleeping Giant

by Ben Saren on May Sat, 2007 in Computers, New Media and Web 2.0

There’s been a lot of talk in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere lately about Google’s acquisitions, Microsoft’s acquisitions, and whose acquisitions were better, or meant to block the other. It’s good stuff! Really good stuff. I’ve got a few opinions about this stuff, like anyone watching the developments from afar, but I don’t [...]

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