So after supporting and having my dear wife put up with a Pentium III-450 for a long while under various versions of Windows, I asked her what she would like for a new computer. The iMac G5 was a bit pricey for current budgets with school coming up for our boys and all. So after [...]
Well, I picked up a new Mighty Mouse that was on hold for me from my good friends at Westworld Computers and have been trying it out for a bit. Truth be told, based on the reviews at places like Engadget and others, the reviews tell you pretty much exactly what you’ll get and what [...]
Wow. How the media is doing everything to get air and mind time in and around the whole iPod and Apple. Now podcasting, having hit the top of the media meme and stampede within a year of debut, it’s now accused of waning as quickly and thinning ridiculously rapidly to only a few elite ‘casts. [...]
Yes, a new iBook. Gratis. Basically, the G3 iBooks that came out in the last series of G3s had a slight engineering issue in the hinge. The cables to the video were pinched tight or at least firmly in the hinge from the mainboard. Over time, this causes the wires to lose the insulation to [...]
Well, I just upgraded to the latest bloged 0.7 (good job Henry and everyone). Seems to be pretty decent. The editor has a few graphical hiccups that might be my system, but I’ll fiddle with it and see if it’s worth reporting more formally. Overall the program looks a lot better, and feature-rich, but mostly [...]
Well, they FINALLY did it in the OS. In Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences, there’s a neat little button in the lower left of the keyboard screen saying "Modifier Keys…" That little gem has the ability to swap and/or remap Caps Lock, Control, Option and Command to any of the others or to No Action. [...]
Ok, it’s been a long hiatus. And I know at least one reader hit the blog thanks to the almighty Google (thanks for the email Darcy!) Motivation visited me thanks to the wonders of FedEx yesterday. Tiger, pre-ordered at first chance while I was overseas in Geneva, was delivered exactly when it was promised, on [...]