Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Darth Vader said:
"Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong."
Tom Raftery, on the other hand, recently converted to the Mac and tried out Microsoft's World Wide Telescope which was released this ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Publicspace.net
I took my MBA on holiday to Spain over the Easter break and it’s just awesome as a light travel companion.
It worked flawlessly, was no hassle lugging around the airport, worked fine on the Hotel’s free wireless network and best of all: it fits into a normal size room safe. ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Mac | 2 Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The recent news that Adobe Creative Suite 4 will not be 64-bit for the Mac is taken as a blow to the Mac. It will be 64-bit for Windows on 64-bit machines running a 64-bit Windows OS (which is a surprisingly small number of people).
64-bit Windows XP runs slower than ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
BoyGeniusReport reports on a curious exchange between a Mac owner and Apple's Steve Jobs. Said customer was irate because he spilled water on his MacBook Pro and was quoted a base $300 to start the repair with no guarantee it would fix the unit. He emailed Steve Jobs and the ...
Posted in Annoyances, Mac | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something.
The rant this ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I've got two 'subnotes' in the house here. An Asus eee PC and a MacBook Air. Yes, it's true that the MacBook cost five times the cost of the eee PC but the differences are startling.
AttributeMacBook Aireee PC
Screen res/size13" @ 1280x8007 inch @ 800x480
Screen border
Posted in Commentary, Mac, Review | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
It was nice to see a Belfast Blogger on Macsurfer this morning though it went a little sour when I read the comments.
The biggest thing I like about blogging is the potential for conversation and by extension, for resolution. It's also an opportunity to present both sides of a "truth" ...
Posted in Commentary, Mac | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
It was difficult for a while because for various reasons the Mac had not been accepted by a lot of people, who went with Windows. And we were just working really hard, and our market share wasn't going up. It makes you wonder sometimes whether you're wrong. Maybe our stuff ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you.
Here's the details.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Damien posted this link to a story on the Machinist blog about how smartphones (and not just iPhones) can get you into trouble.
One exception to this is a search incident to arrest -- if the police are arresting you, they can search you and your possessions without first obtaining ...
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