Marke

About Marke Clinger

I started my career at a start-up, Sun Microsystems, and have been at start-ups ever since. Small companies are always short on people giving me the opportunity to travel extensively for both business and pleasure. Two foreign assignments in the UK led to 9+ years living abroad and accelerated the travel my family, and I was able to do. Although I have worked in Asia (including a year working for a Singapore HQ’d company), the Middle East and Africa, most of my foreign experience is in Europe, the CIS, and Russia.

Briggs & Riley 22 Inch Expandable Carry-On – A Must Have

Several months ago I purchased the Briggs & Riley 22 inch Expandable Carry-On Series 200Briggs & Riley which when expanded is one of the largest by volume carry-on bags on the market. I have used it on two 2-week long business trips and feel it is the best carry-on available.  The curved corners make it look smaller than the “Business” equivalent Briggs & Riley 21 inch Expandable Carry-On or the Tumi Alpha International Expandable Carry-On. This is important when boarding as you don’t want the flight attendants at the gate to target your bag for gate check. The expansion is 3 inches, creating 38% more room in the bag, […]

2017-12-17T21:48:11-08:00

ATI Radeon HD 6870 Video Card – Compatable with Mountain Lion

In my earlier article on the MSI HD 6870 Video Card I confirm that the ATI Radeon HD 6870 Video Card works in an early 2008 Mac Pro and how to install it. Upgrading to Mountain Lion appears to have no effect on the way the graphics card interacts with the Mac’s OS. I was able to upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion with the card in the computer. I then tested each of the problems previously reported with running  with this card.

Current Non-Critical Issues with the ATI Radeon HD 6870

1) DVD Player – Crashes on start-up – Download VLC Media Player to play DVDs. This works fine on my system.

2) Slow Frame Rate after Sleep Mode – If you put your computer to sleep or it auto-sleeps the frame rate will be half to 1/3 after you wake the computer. I haven’t found a resolution for this yet.

3) Start-up Screen Doesn’t Display – This still happens, but doesn’t seem to cause any adverse affects. In the comments of my earlier […]

Converted from MacMail to Thunderbird

Over the last few months I decided to give Mozilla Thunderbird for the Mac a try. I was really excited when the interface on MacMail changed with Lion. It was cool, it was like the iPad, I liked it. However after using it to manage my 5 separate email accounts for the last 5 months I have found it a bit lacking. It is hard to really describe the reason, it is more of a felling. It is a feeling that I get from many of the Mac products, not so great for massive amounts of data/contacts/email.

For example take a look at iCloud’s dealing with files. I don’t want all my files in one flat directory. I have too many, it is hard to find the right file when you have 50 of them to scroll through on your iPad or any other device.

I don’t like the direction Apple seems to be taking of no files systems, no directories. Maybe Apple has some new way to manage email and information in store for us that will solve everything, be totally obvious once we see it, but totally allusive until it is revealed.

I will cover the details […]

iStat Pro Menus shows 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon at 100%

As My iStat Pro Menus 3 clearly shows, all 8 cores in my early 2008 Mac Pro with 2 2.8 GHz Quad-Core CPUs are at 100%. It isn’t very often I utilize my Mac to its fullest potential, but the other day I was encoding video and noticed all all 8 cores maxed out!

iStat Pro - MacPro CPUs at 100% iStat Pro – MacPro CPUs at 100%

Love to see them all blue!

iStat Pro Menus is a great program for understanding what is going on with your system. Not only can you see the CPU usage you can also see memory, networking, and temperature of all they key systems in your computer. The statistics can help you understand performance issues with your computer.

For example, I was having very slow response on my Internet access for several months. I had Comcast out several times debugging it. They replaced the wire, I replaced the cable modem, nothing seemed to help. I had Comcast Tech support on the phone and they said to make sure no traffic was running over the connection. I had […]

2017-05-25T18:08:45-08:00Tags: , , |

Top 10 Best iPad Business Applications

Paulsipad.com updated his Top 10 Best iPad Apps a while back. My list is significantly different, probably because my job is quite different, so I thought I would publish my list. These apps, except numbers 6 and 10, I feel pretty passionate about. That is, I like to use them and without them, I wouldn’t be using my iPad for business.

The apps are listed in order of importance.

1) GoodReader – As I mentioned in my post on GoodReader, this is more than just a reading application. It is a file system for the iPad. More details in the post Goodreader Essential Application for Business Use of iPad.

2) Sugarsync – Automatically all my work files from my laptop are sync’d to a cloud server and available from the iPad. More details on my previous post, Sugarsync Essential iPad Business APP.

3) Toodledo – My personal and business task management application.

4) Evernote – Great for taking notes just […]

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