Welcome to A Digital Nomad
You have stumbled upon the Digital Nomad blog. This site has two purposes, a Technology Blog and a Travel Blog. It about when Tech and Travel cross as well as when they don’t. I travel a fair amount for work and fun and use Mac products extensively while doing so. This blog is about the places I travel to and the technology I use along the way. The iPad, iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air and Mac Pro are my tools. It is also about technology in general as well as some fun places and things we have done while traveling over the last 20 years.
Travel Blog
Tegelberg Luge Ride in Germany
A short distance from our hotel I talked about in the post "Private European Tour for 20 Dollars" is Rick Steves recommended Tegelberg Luge. In the shadow of Neuschwanstein Castle, the Tegelberg luge is one [...]
Rick Steves’ Private European Tour for 20 Dollars
We like being directed to the sites and fun things to do off the beaten path when traveling. Rick Steve's travel guides are excellent at pointing these sites and activities out. We used an earlier [...]
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 [...]
Whitehorse: 25 mins hotel to plane
I am sitting in my seat on an Air Canada CRJ plane 25 mins after leaving my hotel. I left the hotel at 6:15 am for my 7 am flight, drove to the airport, returned [...]
Video Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits
Nice video mashup of the best videos of 2009.
Police Search for Paul Merhige
As those of you who follow me on twitter know, on Wednesday night I had trouble checking into my hotel, the Miami Doubletree. Evidently Paul Merhige had been sighted in the hotel and a massive [...]
Technology Blog
ATI Radeon HD 6870 Video Card | How to Install on Mac OS X
This procedure for installing a PC ATI Radeon HD 6870 Video Card into a Mac Pro works for Mac OS Yosemite, Mavericks, Lion, and El Capitan. Starting with Mac OS X Lion, you don't [...]
Adding an SSD to a MacBook Pro for a Remarkable Speed Increase
After months of my wife's complaints about her 5-year-old 15" MacBook Pro 3,1 hanging during normal operations, I upgraded the hard drive to an OWC 240GB Mercury Electra 2.5" 3G SSD and saw an amazing performance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]