Posts related to Mac
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30 October 2007 - Leopard Review
So, I’ve been running Leopard (OS X 10.5) since Friday. There’s a lot of nice stuff, and some not so nice stuff. First of all, Leopard is gorgeous to look at. The frosted menu bar is very pretty, for one. The new Finder windows are a vast improvement over the old, and CoverFlow is stunning when [...]
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04 October 2007 - Well, that was short-lived
My iPod Touch is going back. I’m not happy. I suppose I should have read more reviews on the device, but I’d pre-ordered it the day it was announced, because I’d been wanting an iPhone for months. And not for the phone. So it didn’t think to read more on it. I just waited patiently for [...]
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24 April 2006 - Great Mac Software
Well, I think I’ve already mentioned how Circus Ponies NoteBook has made obsolete my paper notebook. Well, I came across TextMate yesterday, and I bought it today. It’s a pervasively programmable text editor that understands the language context of the text you are editing. It immediately reminded me of TurboText for the Amiga, but, frankly, [...]
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11 April 2006 - Busy, busy; and new toys
Well, it’s been a busy several months. Been working on pulling a PHP application baseline together from my various code bases, getting back on ReThink, writing stuff for Turos (was: Arcturos, see previous post), etc. I will eventually find time to write stuff about my Mac environment, but, for now, I’ll just say that I love [...]