Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.
As of yesterday, I am now on-board a MacBook Pro. It’s my new work machine. BenNevis being both a scotch and the tallest peak in Scotland, the hostname naming convention fits with both home and office. So far, so good. First impressions in the first 24+ hours: Fast. Yes. It’s fast. Things are snappy and […]
Apple announces Boot Camp. For the first time, you can run Windows on Apple hardware natively and officially. (In as much as “beta” is “official” anyway.) I guess this is the death knell for Virtual PC, eh? UPDATE: This line from Slashdot caught my attention: Boot Camp will be a standard feature in Mac OS […]
What’s up with the recent rash of zombie dreams, eh? Where has that come from? Anyway, with March over, it’s time to start on the revisions on my novel. I took a dive into it last night, plowing through some of the early chapters, my pen scribbling wildly in the margins. The whole time I’d […]
About three months ago, I decided to pit my Safari/Mail experience up against Firefox/Thunderbird and see where that took me. Since I spend so much time in a web browser and an email client each day, I want to optimize my workflow as much as possible. I wanted to find the “one client to rule […]
In an effort to familiarize myself with Xcode, I’ve concocted a couple of projects upon which to cut my teeth. Currently I’m delving into it by way of an AppleScript droplet micro-app that I’m calling “DropSync” for now. The general principle is to drop files onto it and have it sync them to a remote […]
Been toying around with doing this list for a while now. The question: What are the top 10 software applications for OS X (that aren’t out-of-the-box, mind you) that are absolutely essential? The top 10 apps that I couldn’t live without: Quicksilver (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/) – The launcher to end all launchers. Is there anything this app […]
While reviewing some traffic info and site stats, I noticed that my current leading search phrases are: “Bonjour Firefox” and “Firefox Bonjour”. For those of you who (like me) asked the question: How do I take advantage of Apple’s Bonjour technology AND the well-received Gecko HTML rendering engine? …I have the following advice: Get on […]
From ’round the web (in this case: MacSlash): Bare Bones’ Yojimbo personal information organizer. What’s this doing that StickyBrain or Voodoo Pad isn’t? Granted, I can’t speak much for StickyBrain. Never used it. Don’t see the point in that kind of system. (Maybe I would if I’d used it?) I’ll stick to Voodoo Pad, which […]
So is anyone else just plain sick and tired of this freakin’ story? To me it’s just another chapter in the s/he said s/he said po-mo mythology of who said what when why where first and whether or not it’s all that original and/or (re?)mix-worthy in the first place. Statement one: The Postal Service’s video […]
The Ars Technica review of the new Core Duo iMac, boiled down: “Instead of being able to remove the back of the computer to get to all the good stuff, users are left with a door in the bottom to add or remove RAM. Unfortunately, that has remained the case with the Core Duo iMac.” […]