Category Archives: Apple

Meet the New OS

Posted on January 6 2006 by Mickey

    Jeez, Apple wasn’t kidding, were they, when they introduced Mac OS X Tiger at WWDC a year and a half ago:    Bill Gates, last night at CES, talked about some new features in the upcoming Vista OS, … Continue reading →

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Apple Wants More Money From Me!

Posted on October 13 2005 by Mickey

    It’s been fun watching the rumors fly about that Apple would/would not announce an iPod Video at today’s Special Event. I agree that an iPod is a poor way to watch video, but that it might be a … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday (Pt 2)

Posted on August 11 2005 by Mickey

    While watching an old CommandN podcast I learned about a piece of donation-ware called Disk Inventory X, a disk usage utility which can display one’s hard drive’s contents as a “treemap”. It looked cool and I had to … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday

Posted on August 10 2005 by Mickey

    Can’t let the day pass without noting it’s been one year since I ditched Windows and switched to Mac. Coincidentally, two days ago, I broke my G5’s uptime record. Previously it was 16 days of continual uninterrupted use. … Continue reading →

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Fool for the ChapterTool

Posted on July 21 2005 by Mickey

    Welcome to a new dawn in the science of music ripping. It always bugged me how MP3s add a slight split-second of silence to the beginning of every audio file, adding unwanted gaps between songs, interrupting segues or … Continue reading →

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Tiger Test

Posted on May 5 2005 by Mickey

    Want to instantly crash your Safari browser?Click here!    As discussed in the comments of the preceding entry, the above link invariably crashes my new version of Safari 2.0. And I don’t know why. It’s just a link … Continue reading →

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I Really Hate ATI!

Posted on May 4 2005 by Mickey

    It took four days but I finally got my copy of Tiger 10.4 from Amazon. I heard installation might run twenty minutes to an hour, but, as usual, things did not go quite so smoothly for me. I … Continue reading →

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Applecations

Posted on April 28 2005 by Mickey

    Apple sure has been busy these last couple weeks. They’ve released numerous patches and updates for their software and OS, perhaps in preparation for the release of the 10.4 “Tiger” upgrade tomorrow. Also, on Wednesday, they upgraded their … Continue reading →

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Start Something

Posted on April 20 2005 by Mickey

    Microsoft has announced a 15-month plan to advertise Windows XP, in advance of the release of Windows “Longhorn” reportedly at the end of 2006. The announcement coincides with the April 29 release of Apple’s OS update “Tiger”, as … Continue reading →

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Virus Scanning

Posted on March 20 2005 by Mickey

    Yes, I am quite aware how there are no viruses for Macs. However, Macs can get Windows viruses, although obviously those viruses have absolutely no effect on a Mac. Still, I like to be a good Internet citizen … Continue reading →

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