Archive for the 'computers' Category

Adium 1.0 released

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Simply the best messaging client ever.

Leopard Sneak Peak

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I finally got around to looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard site. The videos are interesting.
[Mini-preview after the jump.]

My Mac is Brilliant

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:

I’m not too sure what to think.

Data entry on Address Book

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

When I’m typing a lot into Mac OS X address book, sometimes the focus flips from the field I’m in directly into the Note field. It’s very annoying.
Anyone else have that happen?

Photoshop CS3 Beta

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Sent this to some of my friends two weeks ago…
I don’t know if I remembered to mention this but Adobe CS3 is in public beta. It requires your Adobe CS2 authentication to use past two days.
One big thing is that this version is native on Intel Macintoshes. According to the latest benchmarks it now runs [...]

Windows Vista is not a copy of Mac OS X

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

So sayeth the Pogue.
[Microsoft organization impact after the jump.]

Switching to Mac? Use Plaxo

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Joseph sent me this article, in which the writer switches from Windows to a new MacBook Pro (the same one I own).
In doing so, he found the easiest way to import his Outlook contacts into Mac OS X Address Book was just by using Plaxo! While he was being tongue-in-cheek, I noticed Derik DeLong uses [...]

Zune and iPod sales discussion

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Replied to a MacRumors discussion:
I have no idea where you got that one from. The original Xbox never made a profit. Microsoft is deliberately selling the Xbox 360 at a loss to capture marketshare. However, the PS3 and Ninetindo Wii are selling like hotcakes, are latest big things, and have the buzz. The best laid [...]

I have to go listen to some emo

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Three new holiday Get A Mac Ads.
C++ GUI Programming = classic. And to think, until this, I didn’t know what Emo was.
Not having cable does that to you. I guess not much has changed since my D&D days. I’m still as out of touch as ever.

Firefox 2 migration bug

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

When I migrated from my Powerbook to a Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro and Firefox to Firefox 2, flash stopped working for me in Firefox 2.
The solution is rather simple: Quit Firefox and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/pluginsreg.dat and then restart.