Mac-related computer stuff. I also put iPod-related stuff here so I guess this should have been called Apple.
TV came yesterday. Since I work all the time, I had to drive to FedEx to pick it up. The lady there mentioned that all day people were picking up their TVs. I thought this product would not do well at all.
The TV definitely did not like me.
(And after I spent an hour getting the HDTV out of the box it’s been in for the last two months.)
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I used to work with a guy named Haiping, a former developer at Microsoft who was hired just two people before me at Plaxo. He has some crazy C++ skills as well as is pretty damn good at that headshot thing in PC first person shooters. Last time I was in South Bay, I stopped by Plaxo and talked to him. Later that evening, I went to the Facebook Tech Tasting and met him again. Only this time, his tag said “Facebook.” Between those two times he had changed jobs!
The great thing about our former company, is that you get card updates. I like to accept/reject mine over the web interface and read this today. Read his Work Card Message:
A C++ engineer switches to PHP. A windows user switches to Mac. Now all I have to do is convince him to get a Nikon camera. Now all they have to do is port Day of Defeat to the Mac.
Callwave recently released a widget to provide free visual voicemail. The idea seems to be that you configure your account to do a conditional call forwarding to CallWave’s servers. From there, the widget provides access to the website to allow you to view your voicemail.
Clever.
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Simply the best messaging client ever.
I finally got around to looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard site. The videos are interesting.
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I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:
I’m not too sure what to think.
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?
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 slightly faster in the Mac OS X operating system than on Windows (same hardware).
Here is an article on some of the new features. One big one for us photographers is the new way of doing black and whites.
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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 Plaxo as the Address Book store in a free dotMac service. (Like him, I still pay for my dotMac account, which is a carryover from the old free iTools days.)
Plaxo indeed a great way of importing your contacts between platforms. I use it every day to keep my Windows data in sync with my Macintosh and I can’t wait until the day my iCal calendar can sync with my work’s Exchange server via Plaxo.