Saturday, June 25th, 2005
Well, I still haven't been able to fix my computer... If I was smart and carried my Tiger disks with me I'd be fine, but I don't. If I was even smarter and updated my backup image before running installer.app , I'd be even better off, but I really didn't ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
I was installing the new XCode (2.1) and the installer seems to have gone crazy and started writing wherever it wanted. Now my computer will not boot. The best part is, while I was trying to fix it, I thought I had it fixed and restarted it, but I unplugged ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Safari 2 is much better than the old Safari so far. I used to open about 10 tabs, each to a different comic site and the whole application would not respond for about 3-4 minutes... now it loads them faster than I can read them...Over all, Tiger seems faster, but ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
Just got Tiger (OS X 10.4)!Trying to get Mail working... everything probably would have gone smoother if I hadn't deleted everything and started with a new installation, but I decided to so that I would only install applications that I use and get rid of old pref files and stuff ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
A recent article from Wired News about OS X's security entitled "Mac Attacks Are on the Rise" mentions that "Attacks on Apple's OS X operating system... are on the rise..." (emphasis added) But then, we only get some weak comments to back it up:"Apple's recent introduction of the Mac mini... ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
Now that I can use gmail with Mail.app I will start using it more often.
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Bubblegym is a game for the new powerbooks with the Sudden Motion Sensor technology (sensor causes the removal of the read/write head from the hard drive surface if it senses a sudden movement, like the powerbook falling off of the table)... I can't see this catching on, but it is ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
Wow. That is all I really have to say, but here's some buying advice:I would recommend, if nothing else, to get the $75 upgrade from 256 to 512 MB of RAM (You can't upgrade the RAM yourself, or I'd recommend getting it from someone else)... everything will run much more ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2005
Bill Gates on Apple:They had a hit with the Apple II, they had a hit with the Macintosh, and they have a hit with the iPod, so this is a company that's had three hits...***Edit***You may remember this post where I said:This [icon ()] is [for]when I hand out a ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
***Update:My friend Shane Anderson helped me to lessen the grinding halts in Safari. The Autofill option was causing it. Turn that off and there is no reason to switch away!***I've gotten a little annoyed when Safari grinds to a temporary halt, usually when dealing with net applications like amazon.com, store.apple.com, ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
Well, just about anything... This page has freeware and shareware to decode and encode just about any format you can imagine: .zip, .yenc, .uue, MIME base 64, shar, .rar, Tomes, .tar, .sit, .sitx, .cab, .pkg, .arc, .arj, .b64, .bin, .bz2, .bz, .compressed, .cpt, .gnutar, .gnutar.bz2, .gnutar.bz, .gnutar.gz, .gsm, .gz, .hqx, ...
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
New iPod PhotoI want one.
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Friday, August 27th, 2004
Check out this prize package that HP is giving away:Grand prize packageOne (1) winner will be selected on the basis of the criteria described above to receive a Grand Prize package consisting of the following:15-inch PowerBook G4Power Mac 5 GHZ [sic]20-inch iMac G4iPod MiniHerman Miller office chairPantone Spyder ProAdobe® Creative ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
My iDisk has stopped working completely, and in so doing has brought to the forefront of my mind one of the annoying things I find in using OS X.All the time I click on a button, or select a menu, and get no feedback at all. I have to ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
Or "When faux grassroots movements go bad"Check out Real's Freedomofmusicchoice.org, which is basically a gathering place for all anti-Apple music articles..."Freedom" of choice...Sorry, you can't load the page if you are using a Mac... Real will probably be losing about $.40 per song in their new going-out-of-business sale...Their online ...
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Saturday, August 7th, 2004
Good article from John Gruber about Apple and Licensing: This idea has been repeated so often by so many sources that today, most people, even Mac users, simply take it at face value: If only Apple had licensed the Macintosh, they could have been Microsoft.But this is not a fact. ...
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Sunday, August 1st, 2004
Blizzard Entertainment Does Mac and PC At Once, and all the major gaming developers should take a page from their book.
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Thursday, April 8th, 2004
Intego reports that there is a virus out for Mac OS X. Be careful opening mp3 files from shady sources.** This can apparently also affect other types of files. Just don't type in your administrator password if some file you downloaded off the internet asks you to when you double ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2004
From Macworld:Add New Calculator ModesDo you miss OS 9's Graphing Calculator? Well, you can bring it back to life in OS X 10.3 -- along with an expression input sheet and a hexadecimal calculator.First, open the Applications folder and create a duplicate of the default Calculator application (this gives you ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004
... is pretty cool... Get it here It goes through your iTunes library and fills in all the missing tags... and adds artwork.... automagically. I already paid my 20 bucks for it... it is so useful.**EDIT**:After using it for a while, I have been slightly brought back to the reality ...
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