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Category Archives: Macintosh
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Macintosh Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta! Official Google Mac Blog 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta. We took a hefty … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 30, 2009
Software Kindle 2 finally gets native PDF support, screen rotation Ars Technica Newly sold Kindles will come with an expanded battery, and those with the Kindle 2 will get a holiday gift as well: native PDF support and screen rotation. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, November 12, 2009
Macintosh Microsoft exec: Mac OS inspired Windows 7 CNet / Chris Matyszczyk Simon Aldous, Microsoft’s partner group manager, says the company looked at the Mac’s graphical nature and ease of use and tried to create a ‘Mac look.’
Operating systems: upgrade or reinstall? guilt or pleasure?
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
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Daily Links for Monday, November 9, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu: the complete beginner’s guide Times Online / Jonathan Richards Ubuntu, if you’re not familiar with it, is one of many varieties of a broader, open-source OS called Linux. It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 6, 2009
Macintosh Switchers Guide: Moving from Windows to the Mac Macworld / Harry McCracken Moving from a Windows PC to a Mac–at the office or at home–presents the same kinds of opportunities and challenges. It requires some up-front effort: Transferring your … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Open Source The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Although a growing number of smartphone makers are embracing Linux and open source software, the dream of a fully open phone remains … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, October 26, 2009 – Fun (?) with Windows 7 Edition
Software Windows 7 Upgrade Woes Mount: Endless Reboots and Product Key Problems PC World / Jacqueline Emigh Call it the legacy of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Document Formats BE: OpenOffice boom in Belgium The Port of Antwerp started preparing the migration of 1300 desktops to OpenOffice earlier this year. The completion of the migration is expected around September 2010. The IT-department decided not only to move … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
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No-cost office suites for the Mac
This article and something I saw earlier on the web today reminded me that not everyone is aware of office productivity suites for the Mac that are available for no cost. Microsoft grants Mac Office 11th-hour reprieve ComputerWorld / Gregg … Continue reading
Daily Links for Saturday, October 10, 2009
Open Source Build A Linux Distro With SUSE Studio InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Once, if you wanted to create your own Linux distribution, you had to jump through more hoops than your average Cirque du Soleil performer. Now it’s possible … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Open Source The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status is suspended: a CAOS Theory Q&A 451 CAOS Theory / Matthew Aslett The ability of the Open Source Initiative to steward the Open Source Definition and police the use of the term … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apache, browser, Chrome, Google, Linux, OSI, Second Life
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Daily Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Evening Edition
Open Source Portland Plans to Become Open Source Mecca DaniWeb Community / Sharon Fisher In its ongoing effort to become the coolest city in the U.S., the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is going to attempt tomorrow night to make it … Continue reading
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Daily Links for August 28, 2009 – Lunchtime Edition
Macintosh Why Snow Leopard Is Truly Disruptive Forbes.com / Brian Caulfield Here’s the breakthrough: Apple’s ( AAPL – news – people ) OS X, Snow Leopard, which goes on sale Friday, uses less code than its predecessor to do the … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 27, 2009 – Mac OS X Snow Leopard Edition
Macintosh Apple’s Sleek Upgrade NY Times / David Pogue “Despite all of this, the haters online deride Snow Leopard as a “service pack” — nothing more than a bug-fix/security-patch update like the ones Microsoft periodically releases for Windows. That’s a … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 24, 2009 – Evening Edition
Macintosh Apple to Release Snow Leopard on August 28 PC World “The wait for Snow Leopard is over: on Monday, Apple announced that the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system would be available starting Friday, August 28. … Continue reading
Some note taking and writing software for the Mac
I’ve been on vacation this week, so blog posts have been rare, but here’s an article from earlier this year and some links to note taking and writing software for the Mac that I think are interesting. Also, check out … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 19, 2009
Macintosh Apple’s Snow Leopard: A flurry of changes CNet / Erica Ogg “According to rumors, the release of Mac OS X 10.6, Apple’s operating system also known as Snow Leopard, might arrive a bit early. Though Apple announced at the … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 15, 2009
Open Source Serna Free XML Editor is Now Open Source Software Seems to be similar to what ActiveState is doing with Komodo: open source and give away free the basic version, sell the more advanced version. “Serna Free XML editor … Continue reading
LinuxWorld 2008 Prediction #5: SMB
Although I’ve previously published the slides for the talk I gave at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco, I thought it might be useful to add some additional comments in the blog about each of the eight predictions I made. This … Continue reading
LinuxWorld 2008 Prediction #4: Linux and the desktop
Although I’ve previously published the slides for the talk I gave at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco, I thought it might be useful to add some additional comments in the blog about each of the eight predictions I made. This … Continue reading
Ubuntu on MacBook Pro
I’m participating in this now-closed-to-new-people trial to use a MacBook Pro for work. It’s going very well, thank you. I just got off the phone with one of my colleagues who is doing LinuxWorld planning and he suggested I set … Continue reading
Ubuntu: Challenge the Mac
Normally I would just provide a Diigo link to this if it weren’t something I’ve been saying a lot in talks. Over at InformationWeek, Serdar Yegulaip was a piece called “Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Ambitions: Challenge the Mac”. He quotes Mark Shuttleworth … Continue reading
Life after Windows, 3 1/2 months: Deleted the Windows partition
On March 11 I decided to move away from using Microsoft Windows XP as my primary work operating system on my IBM-supplied Thinkpad T60p. I’ve offered progress reports on how I was getting along. Through all of this I kept … Continue reading
Life after Windows, Day 24
Not much to report of late on my experience after giving up Windows XP cold turkey. I’m using the IBM Open Client for Linux on Red Hat RHEL 5.1 and it all pretty much works. I haven’t used Windows at … Continue reading
Life after Windows, Day 9
I had to go back to last week to see how many days it has been since I last used Windows (Day 1 and Day 2). Part of the reason I forgot was that, well, I was busy and getting … Continue reading
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Two monitors on a Mac
Yesterday I installed a second monitor on my desktop Mac. It’s a 20″ model of May, 2007, vintage running OS X 10.5.2 Leopard. I had an old flat panel monitor with a VGA cable that I wasn’t using anymore and … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-18
OOXML, It’s Just a Bad Idea Mr. Gates goes to Washington as U.S. decision on OOXML nears I teared up just thinking about the families who will be helped by OOXML. Please. (tags: ooxml microsoft) Computerworld > Don Christie: The … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, OOXML, Second Life
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links for 2008-03-11
The Mac The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debate | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com “Laura B., commenter 2.2 in my second piece, made an important distinction between “arrogant” and “confident” (emphasis mine)” (tags: mac apple) Microsoft ITPro:OOXML: Standards for accepting … Continue reading
Life after Windows, Day 1
My work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p that came with Windows XP and all sorts of IBM software that allows me to access my Lotus Notes email and get through the corporate firewall. As soon as I got it, … Continue reading
