One of the bigger challenges I faced when switching to my Mac was the fact that my FANTASTIC deal on Microsoft software did me little good.  I’m a subscriber of the Action Pack which allows me access to tons of Microsoft titles including Vista, Server 2008, and Office for a flat annual (and very affordable) [...]

First off, I have to say that I’m fairly happy, as a recent buyer of a MacBook Pro, to see that little changed with the premium notebook.  Sure the new one is sturdier, has better graphics, and a cool new button-less glass trackpad.  But the REAL stats didn’t change – same processor, same memory, a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some cool changes popped up on the iPhone-specific version of Google Reader the other night.  I logged in late afternoon and did my normal reading.  When I went back just a couple hours later, I noticed all the coolness.
The best change is a relatively recent change to Google Reader itself.  Instead of just the normal [...]