I’m a regular reader of the Mac news blog MacUser.com and today I noticed an interesting ad on the sidebar. The ad (shown above) was for a company called Psystar, which sells computers preinstalled with OS X, Vista or XP and is currently in a legal battle with Apple to continue selling these particular machines. [...]
Interesting ad choice for a Mac blog
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Category: Macs
Video frustrations
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Most of the time I’m quite happy with the products that come out of Cupertino. If I wasn’t, I’d probably not start a blog with so many Mac tips. But recently I’ve noticed 2 video-related things that have stymied my plans of multimedia bliss. I use my MacBook to do a lot of video presentations [...]
Category: Thoughts
5 Things Apple should fix with 10.5.3
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
OS X Leopard is a great operating system, but having used it since it’s arrival in October, I’ve found a number of things I think Apple should fix, in increasing order of randomness:
Network Sharing
Time Machine configuration
Workgroup configuration
WiFi dropouts
Spaces configuration
Category: Macs
How I avoided a potential eBay scam
March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Recently I’ve started to use eBay more often, mostly for getting rid of older electronics while they are still in their shelf life, and have never had a problem. That includes 3 sales and about 9 other purchases to and from the UK, US and Canada. My most recent sale was/is a 20 GB iPod [...]
Category: Thoughts
5 things I miss when I use Windows
March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s no secret that I’m a Mac fan; after all, on a website with the tagline Macs and more you’d think it’s pretty obvious. That doesn’t mean that I don’t use Windows at all, or that I despise it completely. For some jobs, I need to use Windows, often because of software requirements. Mostly this [...]
