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Tag Archives: Mac

idle rambling.

by Rob Friesel

Top 5 Reasons for Rob to Get a Powerbook: Native dual-video out (and digital, no less!) means not only will the extended desktop action be covered under warranty but I can also more easily justify picking up that 20″ display I’ve been coveting. While you can jam a GB+ of RAM into one of the […]

iTunes Etiquette.

by Rob Friesel

RIDDLE! How does one handle the meta-data tagging for songs imported from a DJ mix? About half the time I insert a disk, the CDDB gives me the correct title, artist, and album name info … if by correct, we mean that each “artist” field has the name of the individual artists in them and […]

Konfabulator.

by Rob Friesel

Now that my trial period has expired, I shall issue a brief, inconsequential review of: Konfabulator! the good: The idea is definitely good. I like the concept of being able to throw a bunch of neat little dynamic, iconic graphics on my desktop to feed me information. Especially since I can set them to be […]

friggin’ hilarious.

by Rob Friesel

The Mac is a Harsh Mistress, apparently… Microsoft, ladies and gentlemen, is a cheap whore. She lives on the fringes of the law, but there’s no getting rid of her because she fulfils a certain need in our society. People want what she is selling. I seem to have similar feelings.

no apologies.

by Rob Friesel

“I just feel terrible,” LixelPixel said. “I love Apple and I’m actually terribly nervous and sorry about all this.” Don’t feel bad, Lixel. Better safe than sorry. (Literally in this case.) At least there’s MoreInternet to quell the flames a bit.

round-up/catch-up.

by Rob Friesel

Adding Sterling’s blog to the link-up. Also throwing Cult of Mac on the blogroll. And doesn’t it seem like there have been a lot of Mac-to-Windows crossovers (of sorts) lately? The PowerPC/OS X emulator, for one. And lots not forget all that OS X/P skinning in the house. And one more time… To share neat […]

the hacks so far.

by Rob Friesel

O! KetelOne how thou art full of surprises! First we had all those fun experiments with VNC. Using osxvnc to talk to KetelOne from Detonator-3 (using win2vnc to do the talking. Or was that after we had osx2x up and to pass command to Detonator-3 (runnng winvnc to accept connections…) And there’s always vncViewer to […]

pop quiz.

by Rob Friesel

A question posed particularly for the Mac-using folks but as this is a (sort of) public forum, consider it answer solicitation from all: What email client are you using? How satisfied with it are you? fine print: I’m using Mail.app lately … not sure if I’m digging it all that much or not. A recent […]

3 in 1.

by Rob Friesel

iPods, iTunes, iReal? iCarumba… RealNetworks is offering an alliance with Apple … probably after hearing about Apple is selling more iPods than Macs. Which shouldn’t really come as any surprise, I guess. What’s going to be really interesting in the next couple of months is seeing which avenue the company chases with more fervor and/or […]