February 1, 2008 – 11:29 am
Back in October, I wrote about My Leopard Installation Adventure, but before that, I explained why I was becoming an early adopter of the new Macintosh operating system, which was, namely, that my Mac mini was broken and I hoped Leopard could fix it.
One week ago today, I finally admitted that it couldn’t.
Here’s what happened. [...]
November 5, 2007 – 06:00 am
There’s a new feature in Leopard. It has to do with the “Help” menu, and not just in Apple programs like the Finder or iTunes, but the “Help” menu in any application, including Microsoft Office 2004. You click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar and along with the regular options, you get [...]
October 30, 2007 – 12:12 pm
The DVD install disk for Mac OS X 10.5: Leopard arrived at noon. Unfortunately, I had some stuff I had to get done, so I couldn’t start the installation process until about three, but when the hour finally arrived, I stuck the DVD into my Mac mini’s drive, listened to it click and spin for [...]
October 24, 2007 – 12:31 pm
Many of you may not know this, but on Friday, Apple will release its new operating system, OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, into the wild. This is the sixth major operating system that Apple’s delivered in six years (compare to Microsoft, who has said there will only be one major upgrade to Windows during the [...]
September 19, 2006 – 02:59 pm
In my fiction writing, I use a nifty little piece of shareware called Copywrite. It’s built by Bartas Technologies, a Macintosh developer that “strives to provide simple, focused, and well-polished software applications…software with a personal touch.”
Before settling on Copywrite, I demo’ed most of the available word-processing software for the Mac. Some of the them were [...]
August 15, 2006 – 11:20 am
Apparently, I’m too slow. In the time it took me to draft and redraft my Finder article, John Kheit at the MacObserver has put together the post I was originally trying to write.
I was calling it, “This is how the Finder ends.”
He’s calling it, “Mac UI ain’t all that: The Future and History of [...]
August 11, 2006 – 01:48 pm
I know, I know. Two days ago, I told that I would write about why I think the Finder in Mac OS X is in its last stages. And for the last two days, I have been writing why. But you know what? It turned out to make one ugly-ass article.
What happened was, I started [...]
August 9, 2006 – 03:12 pm
Two days ago, at the World Wide Developers Conference 2006, Steve Jobs introduced the world to Leopard, the next iteration of Mac OS X. I told you last week that I’d give you my thoughts on the whole thing. And though I may be a couple of days late, thanks to the design update of [...]
August 4, 2006 – 11:16 am
I know all y’all motherfuckers are excited about Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at the World Wide Developer’s Conference next week, and not because he’s going to announce, as Robert Scoble wrote on Monday, “a dizzying amount of new products,” which may include a new iPhone, a new Mac Pro to replace the PowerMac G5, and [...]
A while back, I asked What’s Up With Mac Browsers. At that point, I was kind of disappointed with FireFox because it slowed my computer down to a crawl if I kept it open for too long. So I tried Camino, but that had a massively annoying issue and it only lasted a month as [...]
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