Category Archives: mac love

Bothering with Snow Leopard

Try­ing to decide whether I want to go to Snow Leop­ard, or give it a few weeks or months to give var­i­ous pro­grams time to catch up and the first secu­rity update a chance to come out. Mac­Mall has it cheaper than the Apple Store so I am sorely tempted and kind of wish I

PC World — Macs Produced Part of Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ Ads

PC World — Macs Pro­duced Part of Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ Ads.
Yeah, yeah, out­side design firm, what­ever.  Still funny.

Apples and oranges

My dad has a blog, and he wrote a post about his recent pur­chase of a new Dell desk­top. With Vista.  He’s had a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of prob­lems with it, more than I would have expected.  I assumed that Dell would at least be ship­ping com­put­ers that are able to func­tion with Vista on

Apples to apples

I made a spe­cial trip up to Latham to see if any Apple-related mer­chan­dise was still avail­able at the Com­pUSA store clos­ing sale.  Not even so much as a copy of Quicken for Mac (which is what I was after) let alone any Sims expan­sion packs.  Com­pUSA always had a decent selec­tion of Mac machines

Dysfunctional gadgetry

I’ve been a seri­ous Mac con­vert since 2004, but some­times my rela­tion­ship with Apple prod­ucts feels a lit­tle dys­func­tional. Before I knew bet­ter, I bought the first ver­sion of two new prod­ucts, the iPod Mini and the iBook G4. I loved my pink Mini, but in one year I expe­ri­enced three dead bat­ter­ies and one

Tale of Two Desktops

My desk­top pic­ture rotates every half hour. My cur­rent lineup is about 65 pic­tures, most of which are of small, cud­dly ani­mals. Some are of friends and fam­ily, or pic­tures I’ve taken, or pic­tures that friends and fam­ily have taken of small, cud­dly ani­mals.
Here are two screen­caps of what hap­pens when

We hardly knew you.

Why the Apple/Command Key Finally Lost Its Apple « TWODAY
Noooooo! Apple Key, I’ll miss you so! How can I give peo­ple instruc­tions now? What will I do when my dad gets the iMac he wants? “Press apple-uh, I mean twirly-thing and A at the same time.” Sigh.
I seem

Fantastic animation

My friend Andrea from Top­Five put together a a stick figure-filled video that makes an already extremely funny song (one of my favorite Coul­ton songs, actu­ally) and adds jokes to it. Includ­ing a cat macro. I’m very proud of her. I’ve tried com­puter ani­ma­tion in the past, and I just haven’t the

compyrama

*squeal­ing* And I actu­ally have a com­puter pow­er­ful enough to run it!
Oh, and there’s Safari for Win­dows now, but the inevitable ques­tion there is “why?”

Gradumacation

Today was the grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mony! We’ll have to see if my dad’s pic­tures come out. The weather was pretty bad, but I think over­all it went well. A LOT of peo­ple, grad and under­grad, didn’t bother to come to the cer­e­mony. (One co-worker had such a big party going that she