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Seems like more and more people I know are making the switch from Windows to Mac. Apparently, no one cares that the economy sucks and pundits are telling them that peoplejust like them, Joe the Plumber as it were, are saving their money and not buying bling products like Apple. Perhaps people are realizing that the total cost of ownership for a Mac is generally cheaper than a Windows computer, and that, for the headache that Windows often is, Macs are generally just simpler.
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I was born in 1982. I remember my parents buying a VCR. That one broke, and we got another one.
It was a Betamax. Anyone remember those? Sony had this great format for Video Cassettes, but they only manufactured it themselves. Someone else had a larger, lower quality format, but they licensed it to anyone who wanted to build them.
So, if you’ve noticed, I’m kind of a perfectionist about podcasts I do. It was one of my downfalls when I did the Suicide Fan sports show awhile ago. I wasted so much time getting details right that I finally gave up as it wasn’t my full time job and I ended up spending hours for little return.
Then, at the beginning of the year, Geoff and I decided to do a Blog Talk Radio show that would eventually become District of Corruption
The sex appeal about doing a BTR show was there was no production. We called in at a set time, the show started automatically and ended when we said it would. BTR would record the show and give us an MP3. If we wanted to do editing, we could, but we rarely did.
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I’ve been watching my Technorati ranking over the past few weeks and I’m happy to say it’s been climbing. In other news, I’ve been wanting to learn Applescripting. So, I put the two things together this evening and came up with my first practical AppleScript.
The script does one thing. It queries Technorati for my ranking, [...]
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Most of the OSes, including Windows, have made software updates available to deal with daylight savings time changes that go into effect in 2007. Here’s how to do it on OS X.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Ftechnosailor.com%2F2007%2F02%2F07%2Fensuring-your-os-x-or-unix-operating-system-can-deal-with-daily-savings-time-changes%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Ensuring+your+OS+X+or+Unix+operating+system+Can+Deal+With+Daily+Savings+Time+Changes’;
addthis_pub = ”;
In case anyone else needs this information, I’ve just figured out that ipconfig /flushdns that we use in the Windows world translates to lookupd -flushcache in Unix/Linux/Mac OS X/BSD.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Ftechnosailor.com%2F2007%2F02%2F06%2Fflushing-stale-dns-in-unix%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Flushing+Stale+DNS+in+Unix’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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Because OS X is built on top of Unix, many of the really powerful things that can be done are done from the command line. And because I have a background in the defense industry, let me qualify this tip by saying that usually information that the government classifies is not deadly information in itself. [...]
For those who don’t want to pay $650 for Photoshop to do basic photo editing, OS X comes with iPhoto. iPhoto is a tremendous little program for photo editing. It doesn’t offer all the filters and tools that Photoshop, or even The Gimp, does but it’s easy to use and has a one click Enhancement [...]
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One of the dirty little secrets (not really a secret since it makes sense if you think about it) is that Starbucks and other paid wireless access points only provide a single IP address. You pay for internet access, they give you an IP address. No problem in most situations, but what if you’re using [...]
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Buried deep inside the system preferences of Mac OS X is an option to allow your screensaver to display RSS feed headlines. Again, for long time Mac users, this is not overly earth shattering, but it’s kinda cool anyway. It made my day for a few hours, especially when I was at Ad Tech and [...]
Exposé is one of those cool things that Mac does well. For long time Mac users, it’s not anything earth shattering but for folks coming from the Windows world, it is absolutely a stunning work flow enhancer. For those of us from the Windows world, the primary method of switching between apps is Ctrl-Tab. This [...]
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When I switched to the Mac, I had been a regular Outlook 2003 user. Sure, it was bloated but it had everything in it: Mail, Calendar, Tasks, etc. So, the assumption was from the start, that I would use Microsoft Entourage.
Bad Mistake.
As soon as I downloaded my Gmail and b5media email into Entourage (100k [...]
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So as you know, I’ve been travelling alot lately. Two weeks ago I was in Toronto for a b5media Ops meeting. Last week I was in NYC for Ad Tech and a series of meetings. Finally, I’m finishing up my travel schedule for 2006. I’ll be gone for most of the next week. Thursday and [...]
When I went fulltime with b5media, one of the requirements I had for my system was that it had to be a Mac. Having never used a Mac before, the response was with a bit of skepticism. First, they are quite expensive and I haven’t even got the software I need yet. Secondly, why use [...]
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Apparently so. Which begs the question. Does this mean that a consumer could buy the new version of OS X off the shelf and install it on their Intel based x86 architecture at home?
Anyone know? I’m really curious…
Update: Dave Winer has the answer. No, OS 10.4 will not run on normal x86 computers…however, the idea [...]
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