By ray | October 23, 2007
There’s been a lot of noise about the Time Machine feature in Leopard. The idea isn’t new, functionally it appears similar to Shadow Copy in Windows Vista. It has a flashy interface which looks good in demos, but I’d almost prefer Microsoft’s right-click and select from a menu. Maybe I’m just turned off by flashy [...]
By ray | October 22, 2007
[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.]
It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used [...]
Posted in OS X 10.5 Leopard | Tagged aperture, apple, firefox, growl, leopard, macmozy, parallels_for_mac, pathfinder, quicksilver, superduper, transmit, vmware_fusion, yojimbo |
By ray | October 21, 2007
Previously, my site put short notes in one of the right sidebars. This was usually a link and a quick comment. They’re in a category called “Sidenotes”. They show up in the feed and can be identified because they are the posts without a picture in the top left corner.
Now they’ll be called “Quick Bits” [...]
By ray | October 21, 2007
This weeks quest was almost all Wordpress and website updates. It was a pretty complete makeover, from the foundation to the window dressing. As I previously mentioned, I wanted to explore Wordpress and web theme design. I really liked my previous theme, Redoable by Dean Robinson, but it needed to be changed to handle Wordpress [...]
By ray | October 17, 2007
OpenDNS is a standalone DNS service that anyone can use. The term “Open” in this case means open to anyone, not open source. When you switch to the OpenDNS servers for name resolution you’ll stop using your ISP’s servers and you’ll be using the OpenDNS servers. This could provide a performance benefit if your ISP’s [...]
By ray | October 16, 2007
It didn’t take long, other outlets are posting their OS X Leopard prices. Apple is promising free delivery on Oct 26th for pre-orders. Others say they’ll ship on the 25th or 26th and charge extra for overnight shipping, although they do have a slower free shipping option. So if you don’t want to pay the [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Tagged leopard |
