Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Meditating on the MacBook Pro, I commented last week: Again with the Rosetta. Again, Rosetta will catch you where you least expect it. As I mentioned last time around: Office apps worked pretty much as-good-or-better than ever but the Logitech “Control Center” drivers did not play nice. Another paired example: NetNewsWire Lite hums along as […]
A few months ago in my “pre-packaged Apple apps vs. Mozilla equivalents” round-up, I made mention of how Apple’s Mail (or the dreaded “Mail.app” if you prefer) application had mediocre signature support. My criticism went something like: Pain in the butt. Can’t reference external files and what’s worse, you can’t edit the HTML source of […]
After about a week with BenNevis (a MacBook Pro), I have a few more observations…: Front Row. …sucks up memory. If I’m not mistaken, it’s just a wrapper and an alternate front-end for certain applications. That said, the Desktop slides off into the background and you’re left with four big fat icons that you control […]
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 […]
Continuing with the Xcode/Cocoa/Objective-C lessons. Tough being your own teacher. Generously free mini-book PDFs help though. Successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2. (Did you notice? Me neither.) A. finished an experiment today. And with awesome results apparently. She’s probably calling you right now to tell you all about it. currently playing: Roots Manuva “Fever” > Sneaker […]
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 […]
Vermont holds many interesting and peculiar discoveries: I’m overdue on making any conclusions re: Gecko vs. WebKit Monday Top 10 on Tuesday: The “That Was So Last Week” Method (Match all: Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 songs selected […]
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 […]