43 Folders on “12 ways to better sleep” – – almost all of these are things I’d discussed with my doctor last year when I had my last really serious insomnia bout. I’m right there with him on the melatonin, too. That always helps but I’ve heard you’ll want to be cautious with your long-term […]
The Indexed Phobia List confirms that “ambulo” and “thanato” are good roots to use in my zombie-phobia neologism. (And Dictionary.com confirms that “ambulo” is the preferred prefix in the phobia realm for “walking”.) Little piece off bit-tech.net on “Why Web 2.0 will end your privacy” (at least, your privacy as you know it … spime-watch […]
Why I simultaneously love and hate web developers (via Musings from Mars » All The Lovely Browsers!): Regardless of why it’s favored, developers need to understand that when they fail to include Safari in their compatibility testing, they are basically thumbing their nose at Mac users. In my world, that’s not just a nasty thing […]
Apple Mail got you down? Hitting command+Q to quit and it hangs out there waiting for you to Force Quit? Chances are it’s busy caching. Don’t hold it against Mail, it thinks it’s doing you a favor. Just go into the Activity Viewer (command+0) and stop every instance of activity. It’ll behave a bit better […]
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 […]