I received Snow Leopard yesterday. We currently have 5 Macs. I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro (15″). Each of the boys have an iMac. And lastly, I have a MacMini connected to our Home Theater setup where we can replay movies that are on a very large Drobo with 4 drives that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘OS X’
Vista and Fusion
I’ve just setup up a new virtual machine under VMWare’s Fusion. Since Kathy has been having good luck with Vista, I decided to take the plunge too and used Vista SP1 for this new virtual machine.
My purpose for this installation is to run a few simple programs that I have yet to shed myself [...]
Apple’s iPod Touch and Mobile Me
Like many users of an iPod Touch (or iPhone though I don’t have one of those – because of AT&T) and Mac computers, I’ve been waiting for some updates.
For the Mac computers, we’ve been waiting for Mobile Me updates which will allow for push updates of mail, calendar, contacts across multiple computers and updated iPod [...]
MacJournal vs Ecto
Well, I’ve used MacJournal for about 100 posts and it’s a nice application. It has the benefit of allowing you to have a “Blog” and a private journal.
In my view, the weaknesses include the lack of synching a designated number of posts from a blog site which could include download all posts. I [...]
Mac Network Setup Issues
In working with our new Mac Mini for a while now, I remembered an issue that seems to pop up every time I have a new system. I agree that this doesn’t happen often but still the issue does exist.
To the issue: When I set up a new Mac, I can immediately network with [...]
Mac Games
A month or so ago, I replaced an Intel desktop running Windows (XP) with a new Mac Mini. I find that the benefit of running OS X and Windows on one machine is a great thing.
That being said, it is my kids machine so it is much easier to have application run natively than [...]
Mac Mini
A few days ago, I bought a new Mac Mini (it will be quite upsetting if Apple suddenly, in the next 2 weeks or so comes out with a new version!) for my kids to use.
Mitchell has been primarily using my old Powerbook so he’s already familiar with OS X and likes it [...]
Applescript and MacJournal
I’ve never done any Applescript but I thought I would give it a try. I still had some work to do to finish off my migration work that Applescript sounded like the perfect tool for (the migration for my blog history from Ecto/Wordpress to my new blog tool MacJournal).
In looking at Applescript, I’ve discovered [...]
New MacBook Pro
Well, I returned the old model and ordered the new model and now it’s here. I’ve been installing apps and setting up apps. I’m nearly done. It’s very peppy.
I hope to use it for some work that I do with the boys school (PTSA stuff) and also my guitar work. [...]
MacJournal – Update
I’ve been playing/using MacJournal’s trial for about 12 hours now. It seems to do everything I want including updates, tags, separate journals for Blogs, private diaries, and even imports. The imports are difficult and take a lot of work but they do happen. The imports do lose some information like tags but [...]
MacJournal – using with Wordpress
I saw a blog post about an updated version of a software package that sounded interesting. The reason that it sounded interesting over what I’m using right now (Ecto) is that you can have multiple “Journals”.
I love having a blog to share thoughts with the world but I know that the thoughts that I [...]
Impatience got the best of me
Ok, even though there were some rumors floating around I discounted them. I mean, when isn’t there an Apple rumor floating around about some new Mac or iPod or new piece of software or update or some such? This year there has been something delivered every Tuesday but I guessed that Apple was [...]
Mitchell’s using a Mac
At first I had Mitchell using an old Windows laptop but, man, it was painful. He was having a lot of problems and they were all due to the fact that the laptop is really slow and the websites today all have increased requirements on a system, it seems.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading my [...]
VMWare’s Fusion
In using VMWare’s Fusion (and before that Parallels), I have been using a Boot Camp partition but only because I had initially set up a Boot Camp partition. I think I kept it because I thought to myself if there was some compatibility issues, I could just boot into Boot Camp and run the [...]
OS X vs Windows
As a OS X user and recent switcher, I’ve found lots of things to like about OS X. Applications install simpler. Lot’s of built in features. Usability and security are more integrated and easier to use in a way that I don’t have to think about things – just do them.
There [...]