CES is over and MacWorld is about to begin. Can’t say anything at CES caught my attention. Stuff was just bigger, thinner and less expensive. The big news last week seemed to be Warner’s move to Blue-Ray and that was before CES.
I can’t say I’m all that excited about MacWorld either. Curious? Yes. Excited? [...]
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Well, we just kicked off a new year, at least for those of us who use the Gregorian calendar. Despite the title this isn’t a predictions or resolutions post.
Actually I think the first topic is more for me than for you. I’ve become hooked on posting to the site and I figure it’ll [...]
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Back around Thanksgiving I installed Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva Linux virtual machines on VMware Fusion. This article has the screen shots from the Mandriva install. I’m running VMware Fusion 1.1 on my MacBook running Leopard. Mandriva officially calls it’s free Linux Mandriva Linux One 2008.
The VMware portion of the setup was straight-forward since Mandriva [...]
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I decided it was time to move out of Adobe LightRoom (which I’d be running under a eval license key) and back into Aperture. I found LightRoom easier to use, especially to organize photos, but there’s no way I could justify the $299 price. Since I already have Aperture there’s really no price for which [...]
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While I’m very hapy with OS X 10.5 Leopard overall and don’t regret the upgrade there are some things that annoy me or a outright bugs.
Let’s get the translucent menu bar and menus out of the way. The translucent menu bar doesn’t bother me because I use a dark background. Still, the translucent menus are [...]
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Just as Time Machine was beginning to grow on me as a viable backup option I ran into my first annoyance. And it is annoying.
Until now Time Machine ran almost unnoticed by me. But tonight I had a Parallels VM open for several hours. The good news is that Time Machine didn’t seem to be [...]
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