Category: OSX

Alternative Vistas

The airwaves and Internet are saturated these days by the Microsoft media blitz for their first new operating system in five years, Vista. If you listen to the mantra, you must upgrade now or the world might pass you by….

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Silicon Pirates

I recently watched the movie  Pirates of Silicon Valley and enjoyed it about as much as one can enjoy a made for TV movie.  I would be more interested in reading a non-fiction book about the events than a trumped…

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Making iMovies

The new digital camera we have lets us take short digital video movies. best online pharmacy with fast delivery buy phenergan online with the lowest prices today in the USA online pharmacy buy periactin without prescription with best prices today…

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RoR on OSX

If you want to set up Rails on your shiny new MacBook, follow this page from the Hive. I followed it verbatim and now have a fully functioning Ruby on Rails install with MySql. best online pharmacy with fast delivery…

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Songbird – Get it!

I have finally found the best media player for those of us who use more than one platform – Songbird. It is built with Mozilla’s framework, so it works everywhere and looks the same on all platforms. Give it a…

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Vista on my MacBook

I installed the latest Beta release of Vista on my MacBook last night using Parallels. best online pharmacy with fast delivery buy phenergan online with the lowest prices today in the USA It seems to work just fine. This will…

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MacBook At One Month

Well, it’s been about a month since I bought my 1.83Mhz MacBook and I thought I’d share my thoughts on it. This is my first laptop in about 12 years. My last lappy was a Packard Bell 486 notebook with…

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MacBook Toys

I found a couple of fun apps for my MacBook that I  thought I’d share.  The first up is MacSaber a largely useless app, with plenty of Geekiness.  It uses the motion sensors in a MacBook to drive the sound…

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Talking to my MacBook

Last night I started talking to my MacBook and it heard me.  I have not played with it too much but if I take the time to learn the commands it knows, it will do as I say.  I was…

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