pMac is an 867 MHz G4 12″ Apple Powerbook purchased in August of 2003. By that reckoning, it is nearly five years old as of this writing. It has traveled extensively. It has seen limited travel within California–only about as far away as Livermore from its current home in San Buenaventura–but it has been to [...]
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I still use Safari and Omniweb as my primary browsers, but Firefox is far too cool a browser to be forgotten. After all, it is the most feature rich browser on the planet by virtue of its add-ons.
So, strike a blow against inferior browsers and help to set a new internet record for the most [...]
nicworks :: downloads :: brokeback mountain icons set
Customized, clean, artistic and professionally rendered icons are one of the many nice things that the Macintosh developer community offers the Macintosh user community. An icon set based on Brokeback Mountain, however, is a mystifying contribution from this incredibly generous developer community. The offering of the icon set [...]
Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show | Windows | InformationWeek
Wow. This is truly unbelievable. Information Week conducted tests to show that Windows XP outperforms Vista–Microsoft’s upgrade to XP–in every category, even if the computer is equipped with all of the latest hardware. This is the greatest testimony to Microsoft’s monopoly power. The company is [...]
Addicted to Apple Macintosh
Posted in My Mac on Nov 24th, 2007
Yes, I knew I was addicted to my mac, but thanks to a web site, I now have a quantitative measure of this addiction.
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More Great News for AAPL
Posted in My Mac on Aug 6th, 2007
VMWare, the operating system virtualization powerhouse has just released Fusion, their virtualization machine for OS X. To my mind, this is huge news for Apple, Inc., because this means that Apple is gaining market share rapidly.
It also means that the suspicions of many that Apple has been gaining market share from the Unix/Linux segment [...]
There were many who believe that the browser wars are long over, but this is simply not true. With Apple’s entry into the Windows browser space and Mozilla’s spectacular capturing of Internet Explorer’s market share, there is little doubt that the browser wars are back on!
How does one decide? It was quite easy for [...]
Mac Aqua Look on Windows XP
Posted in My Mac on May 25th, 2007
Want to make your ugly Windows XP desktop look like a crisp Apple OS 10.4 Tiger desktop? Follow these simple instructions.
New Uptime Record
Posted in My Mac on May 6th, 2007
Immediately after the first recorded high uptime, came this one. It was recorded just before the next OS upgraded prompted me to restart my trusty, crusty old 867 MHz G4 Powerbook Macintosh (Titanium).
As always, many, many software packages were compiled and installed by fink. The various browsers, Firefox, Omniweb and Safari were opened and [...]
Over 22 days may well be the current record. My lovely 12″ 867 MHz Powerbook has now served me faithfully (even though the factory hard drive did not) for three and one-half years. I cannot justify buying a new Mac because save for occasional speed problems, this baby stays up and running without reboot no [...]
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