Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

My first MacBook Pro post!

Yeppers, it’s here!  My MacBook Pro came in a couple of days early, actually.  It was “scheduled” to arrive yesterday (Monday) but showed up Friday afternoon instead.
A few thoughts…  First off, I really like it.  The build quality is great and it runs OS X lickety-split!  But there are a couple of things that I’m [...]

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Virtualization helps Apple

I can’t wait to start playing around with REAL virtualization.  I’ve talked before about using my Mac Mini and Parallels to run Windows XP.  It runs great, but that’s on a 1.83GHz machine with 2GB memory.  The MacBook Pro that I just ordered has a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and I’m going to have 4GB [...]

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MobileMe continues to be a mixed bag

While I’m not one of the reported 1% of MobileMe users affected by a massive email outage/loss, I’m still having problems.
The service took the better part of a day to get setup correctly.  After getting my contacts perfect on my iPhone, I synced them to Address Book on the Mac only to find out that [...]

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Firefox 3.0 = highest awesomeness

I tried out the new Release Candidate 2 version of Firefox 3.0 beta the other day and I’m hooked.  I love listening to Buzz Out Load from CNET and have been intrigued for quite some time with all the talk about Firefox and its “add-ons”.
Wow.  There are add-ons that do all sorts of cool things [...]

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MobileMe – now THAT'S exciting!

Not too awfully different from Microsoft’s Mesh (in beta), Apple’s new MobileMe service is just the ticket for me. I maybe MORE excited about this than the new iPhone.  Okay, maybe not.
But it definitely is cool.  I have been looking for a seemless way to sync my calendar and contacts between my iPhone, Mac, and [...]

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I REALLY like my Mac

Okay, this is almost painful to say, but I need to say it:  “I really like my Mac.”
When did I become an Apple fanboy, you ask?  Well, I wouldn’t go that far.  One of the things I “really like” about the Mac is the fact that I can run Windows apps through Parallels.  It’s so [...]

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