The GoYin Store: Buy GoYin Wholesale

I’ve enjoyed the simple pleasures of multi-media editing with my powerbook G4 since 2003, but it came time to upgrade to a Mac Book Pro. I got a pretty sweet deal on a refurb 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo MBPro because the new Core 2 Duos just came out. I was sold with the included one-year (same as new) warranty.

Here are my two babies, hybernating together, dreaming of pure 1s and 0s, neither of their flowers plucked by the depraved viruses and worms that plague the PC world.

I personally am a PC vs. Mac pacifist, although if I am ever faced with a computer buying decision I will almost invariably choose mac. One example of how macs facilitate our lives is the old-mac-to-new-mac settings/data carry-over when you get a new mac… which leads me to the beef of the post which is a simple “How to turn your mac into a firewire drive” or more simply “How to transfer files from one mac to another.”

You see, as soon as you start your new mac for the first time, it asks you if you’d like to transfer all your files and settings (even firefox, garageband, and all other apps settings) to your new mac. With one 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable, you’re in business.

It took these two guys about an hour and 45 minutes to make my new mac have all my old mac’s settings and files, which was roughly 30 gigs of data.

Anyway, a couple years ago I remember it was almost impossible to find a simple online guide to transfer files from a mac to another mac (even on mac’s support site), so here’s a simple how-to:

1. Connect both computers with a firewire cable.
2. Restart the host mac (the mac with the files you are about to transfer) and hold down the “T” button until a gigantic firewire symbol appears on the screen.
3. Your host mac is now functioning as a firewire external drive. You can now browse it using your other mac’s finder.

So… if you have a mac, then bring it on over and mac-off with us.

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) has already been around for years, but is barely coming into the mid-to-high range for consumer entertainment centers.

HDMI is based on the video signal used in DVI (Digital Video Interface). DVI has also been used in industrial and office situations for years and is finally coming into the main stream. It is an upgrade from the analog VGA signal that has been used in household computer systems for decades.

DVI, unlike its VGA predecessor, uses binary data to determine the brightness and color of each pixel of a DVI display. HDMI uses the same digital signal classified as a discreet time signal, but includes 8 channel digital audio all in one interface that is a small fraction of the size and encumbering nature of the DVI interface. See the two interfaces below:

DVI may some day go the way of the dodo if HDMI video cards, displays, HDMI cables, and HDMI switches find their way economically into consumer systems.

Above is a copy of Tiger Direct’s print catalog we got in the snail mail here at Sewell Direct. Them and New Egg are probably our biggest competitors when it comes to connectivity and other products that Sewell Direct built its business on in the beginning.

Anyway, upon seeing the catalog my heart sank because I thought initially that Tiger Direct had bridged the Multi-Channeling marketing gap by putting add-to-cart buttons under every product in their print catalog. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. This way, they’d easily be able to track which conversions came from the print catalog which is something we haven’t figured out how to do with 100% accuracy. And then of course there are the advantages of the residual traffic for having 100s of direct links from a print catalog that will just sit on coffee tables and in waiting rooms around the world.

Imagine my relief when I tested the buttons and none of them worked. I pushed the buttons, and then walked over to my computer, checked my Tiger Direct shopping cart, and it is still empty. I also noticed that there are some select products without an add-to-cart button. It is unlike Tiger Direct to be so careless.

Thanks Sam.

So this week gave the gift of the first decent snowfall of the year, and being a proprietor of the Preseason Solitude Ticket Package, I found myself on the slopes yesterday. Solitude by the way isn’t the greatest snow of Utah. It is above decent, though, and all the punk kids go to Brighton and the snobs go to Canyons, Alta, and Deer Valley. Snowbird is always crowded and I think the tram is over-rated. Yesterday I only saw another human being about once every 10 minutes on average, and I stuck to the groomed areas for the most part, and that includes the area at the lift gates.

This happened a little off the groomed area. I hit granite where the snow got thin and the next thing I remember was face down about 20 feet away from my skis. The above picture is pretty much the first thing I saw, and I thought it was funny, like out of a cartoon or one of those yearly holiday movies that always have flying sleds and neighbors competing to have the best decorated house for some reason.

Anyway, I highly recommend the Solitude Ticket Package. They already stopped selling it (sales are only pre-season and stop Nov. 1) but you buy at least 11 passes for $33 each pass. You can get as many over 11 as you want. If you don’t use them all this year, you can redeem them next year by going to the ticket office before March 31st I think. They put all the passes on one card that you put in your left breast pocket and the sensors at all the lift gates automatically read them which is a much better system than most resorts around here.