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The Day Apple Became Nathan Myhrvold « Mike Cane's xBlog
"for this continued vandalism they expect a 30% — in Myhrvold’s delightful turn of phrase — vig?"
mac  business  writing  misctech 
february 2011 by epersonae
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is "unauthorized," or, in other words, stolen" using biometric info. CREEPY.
privacy  mac 
august 2010 by epersonae
Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4
"Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software" -- also, apparently likely to be a more significant issue for lefties.
mac  mobileweb  misctech 
july 2010 by epersonae
MacBook - Technical Specifications
specs for ye olde macbook. (which still runs fine, altho could prob'ly use new batter.)
mac  reference 
april 2010 by epersonae
Coals [2] Newcastle: One More Page
someone who loves Scrivener recommends Page Four. (for windows)
writing  mac  windows  misctech 
march 2010 by epersonae
A very personal Google Android vs. Apple iPhone war just got some more personality | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
"Bray will bring something to Android that it doesn’t necessarily have today—a personality. And a little personality will matter because as the New York Times detailed on Sunday the Apple vs. Google thing has become intensely personal."
blogosphere  mac  google  mobileweb  android 
march 2010 by epersonae
Literature and Latte: The iPad and Mac Development
in short: no iPad version of Scrivener, mostly because it would require writing an entirely new version (different OS) -- but what I find interesting is his take on netbooks.
writing  mac  mobileweb  misctech 
february 2010 by epersonae
Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive
"After being crushed by a pile of rubble, Woolley [...] took refuge in an elevator shaft, where he followed instructions from an iPhone first-aid app to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound[...]." a lucky fellow, to say the least.
weird  science  medicine  mobileweb  mac 
january 2010 by epersonae
FORGET APPLE: Google Voice for iPhone to Reemerge as Web App
I'm thinking there's a different word that starts with an "f" that might go here. (I'm also thinking that the smart thing for almost anybody to do is to write web apps. F*** the app store.)
mac  mobileweb  google 
january 2010 by epersonae
Seashore - About
"Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework." a simplified GIMP, apparently
mac  opensource  photoshoppery 
november 2009 by epersonae
Laptop battery myths
"here’s how lithium-ion batteries behave" - memory, plugging in, capacity diminishing, etc. Some notes specifically on Apple laptops.
mac  misctech 
october 2009 by epersonae
Cool Feet Laptop Stands available at Delight.com
"Cool Feet were designed as compact and removable supports that temporarily fix to the bottom of your laptop with suction cups." totally want these.
mac 
june 2009 by epersonae
OS X commands
"An A-Z Index of the Apple OS X command line"
mac  reference 
may 2009 by epersonae
Alkaline - Litmus
"Alkaline tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds." trippy.
mac  browsers  css 
april 2009 by epersonae
RetroFloppy - Transfer your old Apple or Commodore floppies or hard disks to disk image files or back again!
I have Kat's old (ancient!) apple laptop, onto which I'd transferred all of the files from college: papers, letters (I assume), stories, poetry, etc. Would love to have that stuff, and to get rid of ye olde brick.
personal  history  mac  writing 
january 2009 by epersonae
Featured Mac Download: Picasa for Mac Beta Released, First Look
huzzah! (THE thing I miss when I'm using the macbook. iPhoto doesn't especially agree with me.)
google  mac  photography 
january 2009 by epersonae
scribus.net | Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing
oh hey, now avail for Windows & Mac. (last time I looked, it was Linux only.) yay!
opensource  design  mac  linux  gaming  ena 
november 2008 by epersonae
Unclutterer » Archive » Seeking advice for cleaning laptops and keyboards
ours is gnarly (the yellowing thing, too, that may actually be a manufacturing defect), might try these tips b4 using applecare.
mac  reference 
october 2008 by epersonae
Operating Systems: The Ultimate Windows Desktop/Mac Notebook Alliance
C got back an old windows computer that he'd given away, so this is now our home situation
to-do  mac  windows  misctech 
october 2008 by epersonae
Cool Tool: Tide Widgets
could be nice for beach jaunts....
local  science  reference  mac 
september 2008 by epersonae
Ninisworld , Making a screenshot in OS X
a nice simple explanation. (needed this for work today!)
mac  reference 
september 2008 by epersonae
Hello darkness my old friend [dive into mark]
I just wanted to quote this: "Selling people on freedoms they can’t exercise themselves is, to put it mildly, an uphill battle." (in the comments) I think this is probably, unfortunately, a generalization that can be applied to many arenas.
politics  mac  opensource  linux  philosophizing 
august 2008 by epersonae
“Gorilla” Usability Testing | GarrettDimon.com
"I believe it can bring usability testing the masses and will be the go-to application for basic usability testing." assuming that the masses have macs. grumble grumble. it does look REALLY useful, tho.
usability  mac 
july 2008 by epersonae
Laptop Stand - a photoset on Flickr
I think I still have a couple of these wire panels around here somewhere....
to-do  mac 
march 2008 by epersonae
Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air
I see only one scenario that would have made this story even more Apple-riffic: if Rose had sustained his injuries in a rumble with tech troll extraordinaire, John Dvorak." altho one of the other commenters said he heard it was a bar fight. :P
funny  mac 
march 2008 by epersonae
Internet Explorer lays anchor in 1999, sets sail for the future - glyphobet • глыфобет • γλιφοβετ
"Each new version of Windows introduces new APIs while attempting to maintain compatibility with old APIs, even to the point of mimicking buggy behavior." - connects the IE8 thing to OS issues.
browsers  standards  x-ua-bs  mac  linux  history 
january 2008 by epersonae
Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word
Scrivener looks really interesting to maybe get my writing together. And I miss whatever version of Word was out on the Mac in the period 1992-1996.
mac  writing  history  misctech 
september 2007 by epersonae
Best. Widget. Ever. - Ctrl+Option+Apple
for both of us...the option glyph is the one that I never ever ever remember.
mac  funny  reference 
september 2007 by epersonae
Virtualize AND dual-boot the same Windows on your Mac
You got your peanut butter in my chocolate! (Running Parallels and Boot Camp on the same Mac.)
mac 
august 2007 by epersonae
Lorem Ipsum: iPhone, Mac OS X 10.4.10, and kernel panics
"Kernel panic"?! Will need to look into it this weekend.
mac  to-do 
june 2007 by epersonae
Tzi Software: AutoRate
for automatically rating songs in iTunes based on playing behavior. OSX only.
mac  mediahub 
june 2007 by epersonae
Digital Web Magazine - Better Font Management
decent list of free/pay font management programs
design  it@home  mac 
march 2007 by epersonae
Sofa Control
"Use your Remote Control to open documents, videos and more while resting in the sofa."
mac 
february 2007 by epersonae
How to mount any filesystem in Mac OS X with MacFUSE - Lifehacker
partially just to remind myself that I need to call Mac support.
mac 
january 2007 by epersonae
ongoing · Apple App Attrition
our mac went ultra-mega-crash this week. it's weird and painful and I have no idea what to do. so C is riding herd on tech support. (turns out buying apple care was a good thing.)
mac  personal 
december 2006 by epersonae
BankerSpank.com: I Love You
so help me god: credit union humor...in a mac ad parody.
creditunion  funny  mac 
december 2006 by epersonae
Caveat Lector » Making slides
good info about keynote. maybe I should get iwork.....
mac  misctech 
december 2006 by epersonae
Bricksmith
"virtual Lego modeling for your Macintosh"
lego  mac  opensource  weird 
november 2006 by epersonae
A Beginner's Guide to Video for the IPod
includes both mac & windows software, both pay & free.
ipod  mac  mediahub 
november 2006 by epersonae
The Last iPod Video Guide You’ll Ever Need
all the sw is mac-only, but I guess that's okay.
mediahub  ipod  mac 
november 2006 by epersonae
Journey to a well-optimized Macbook - Lifehacker
plus, as usual, the lifehacker crowds have lots to add
mac  to-read 
november 2006 by epersonae
Articles (Mac Home Media Center)
"Building a Mac Home Media Center, Part 1: How To Get iTV Capabilities Today, For Less"
mediahub  mac 
november 2006 by epersonae
Vitamin Features » Our Office 2.0 Experiment
some interesting mac software suggestions, including in the comments. since the last update, Cyberduck seems to be quite stable, btw.
mac  it@home 
november 2006 by epersonae
Malarkey Software - Software - dead.licious
put this on the mac. (what a brilliant idea!)
mac  metablog 
october 2006 by epersonae
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
hail mary mother of jeebus that's a lot of shortcuts.
mac  reference  to-read 
october 2006 by epersonae
Download of the Day: InsomniaX (Mac) - Lifehacker
should we ever use the mac as an entertainment device.
mac  mediahub 
october 2006 by epersonae
Cha-Ching
looks both pretty & useful.
money  mac  it@home  checkback 
september 2006 by epersonae
Midnight Inbox, public beta 1
"A complete and elegant GTD® solution for OS X" looks nice, but I don't use the macbook (or any one computer) as my main machine.
mac  productivity 
september 2006 by epersonae
Smultron by Peter Borg
for the macbook. I've been using Aptana, and I'm sort of 'meh' about it.
mac  to-install  webdev 
august 2006 by epersonae
10 tips for new Mac users, switching from Windows…
some good tips here. (the thing that boggled me, in a good way: pressing the power button brings up the shutdown menu!)
mac  to-read 
august 2006 by epersonae
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