Give Me Your Tried, Your Ports, Your Mac Apps
Dec 7, 2007
OK, I’ve been fooling around on my new PowerBook — I mean, MacBook — now for a couple weeks, and I’ve achieved a moderate level of productivity. But what are the great apps out there that I’m missing? What small developer should get my $30 for the magic they’ll put in my Applications folder? Tell me your favorites so that I can try them out! Read on… (plus 3 Comments)
Back in Mac
Dec 1, 2007
Well, I went and did it. I got a 15” MacBook Pro to replace my Dell. The new Mac was supposed to come in more of the April/May timeframe, but then the Dell had a little explosion — a flash of light, an overpowering smell of ozone, and then it wouldn’t turn on for two days (remarkably, after a weekend turned off, the Dell worked fine). That put a crimp in my plans for productivity and whatnot, and I couldn’t quite trust a sparky laptop, so MacBook Pro time it was. And it’s wonderful. It’s beautiful. It feels great, and I love it. Read on… (plus 3 Comments)
You'se A Fine Computer User Why Don't Ya Back That Drive Up
Sep 19, 2004
Only a geek backs up his (or her!) data, right? So I must be an uber-geek, because I have two levels of data backup going on: backup to external media, and CVS. Both are pretty easy to get running on your Windows machine, and everybody should do them!
Main thing — and what you should definitely do, because it’s pretty cheap and easy — is back up to external media. This could be a USB, USB2 or FireWire hard drive you buy, it could be a CD, or Read on… (plus 4 Comments)
How To Color-Code Your E-Mail Inbox, Calendar, Contacts And Tasks, And Hide Completed Tasks, In Outlook
Aug 8, 2004
If you’re like me, you like to automatically have your e-mail and events and even contacts and tasks colored in Outlook. It just makes sense to have everything clear to you as soon as you glance at your inbox or your calendar; with everything colored, just a quick look lets you know what’s important, what’s trivial, and what’s urgent.
Outlook hides its color-coding ability. You might think that you apply colors through filters, but the colors are not, in fact, attributes of messages, appointments, etc; they’re Read on… (plus 4 Comments)
Importing From Quicken Mac Into Quicken For Windows
Aug 5, 2004
It’s harder than one thinks it might be to import your Macintosh Quicken file into your new Windows version of Quicken. Among other challenges, Quicken support uses the word “convert” rather than “import”, which makes it harder to search for the right article.
There is, however, a right Read on… (plus 1 Comments)
Dell's TrueMobile 2300 Can Kiss My Hairy White Ass
Jul 30, 2004
So I love my Dell Dimension D600. It’s reasonably fast, I actually like the keyboard, I haven’t had any trouble with the trackpoint (the complaints sound like people who didn’t realize that many Windows laptops have their trackpoints set to scroll and double-click and stuff like that with taps on the touchpad), Read on…
How To Move Your iTunes Library From Your Mac To Your PC
Jul 12, 2004
Switching from a Mac to a PC, I needed to move my iTunes library from my old Mac to my new PC, without losing any of my playlists, ratings, etc. From my inital Google searches, it looked hard. Moving my iTunes library from my Mac to my PC didn’t turn out to be bad at all, modulo my initial long walks down wrong paths.
It’s not possible to just move your music files from your Mac to your PC; iTunes won’t know where they are. The good part is, iTunes seems to use more Read on… (plus 3 Comments)
Importing MBOX Mail From Mailsmith Into Outlook
Jul 10, 2004
I’ve kept all of my e-mail since 1995, and I don’t have any intention of losing it just because I switch from a Mac to a PC. I needed to export my mail from Mailsmith and import it into Outlook. The process I came up with acutally works to import mbox files into Outlook from any program that can make .mbox files — including Netscape Mail, Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pine, and, well, probably anything that runs on *nix systems.
Now, some folks Read on… (plus 5 Comments)
Temporary Windows Bitch
Jul 5, 2004
Why must everything take a few extra steps in Windows? Why must everything be hidden behind thre menu options or only accessable with a right-click? Why can’t things just be put nicely, cleanly, in one place? Why must everything important be controlled by an eensy-weensy icon in the bottom left of my screen? Why, why, why?
Yes, I’m talking to you, print server that requires me to change every single networking option on my computer to set you up. And you, <a href=”http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=TM23001&c=us&l=en&cs=19&category_id=4011&page=external Read on…
Regrets, I've Had A Few
Jul 1, 2004
So far, I actually like my new system pretty well. I’m configuring everything just the way I like it, and am becoming comfortable with Windows XP. Then Apple comes along and announces Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and makes me jealous.
Tiger offers almost everything I am looking for in an operating system. In addition to all of the wonderful things in OS X 10.2 Jaguar, Tiger adds clever things like easy-to-hide Read on…
Crossing Over To The Dark Side
Jun 29, 2004
I did it. I broke down and bought a Windows laptop for my forthcoming business school experience. At the end, I just felt that the easy interoperability with my classmates and access to all of the desktop and web apps used by Marshall was worth it. Plus, I’m very hopeful that it won’t be so awful now that Microsoft has had 20 years to imitate the Mac OS in some little way.
So today (only a week and a half after ordering!) I recieved that laptop. A Dell Latitude Read on…