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New MacBook Pro

I took these notes while unpacking and installing my new MacBook Pro at work.
- Slick packaging, as usual for Apple.
- First thing I’d do is migrate my user account or the whole drive from the old MacBook. Since the new MacBooks no longer have FireWire 400, I can no longer use the Target [...]

Posted 01 April 2009 § Reviews ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Chrome for Mac = End of Camino?

Mike Pinkerton seems to be full-time on Mac Chrome these days. He’s having a great time and moving things in the right direction on that front, but I’m just afraid it’s going to mean the end of Camino. Mike’s said this won’t affect Camino at all in the short term, but one can only wonder. [...]

Posted 15 February 2009 § Thoughts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Mac IMAP Mail Clients

The problem with the best Mac email client is that it doesn’t exist. There are a few good ones, they all break when things get heavy.
Apple Mail – The default email client is not bad. However, there are so many little quirks in its UI that using all day makes for a stressful experience.
Microsoft Entourage [...]

Posted 25 September 2008 § Thoughts ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: ,

BZ2 Files And Safari

If you can’t decompress a “.dmg.bz2″ file downloaded by Safari, you may try to fix things by removing the .bz2 from the file name.
Here are some hints pointing that the problem is caused by the incorrect extension:

Using Archive Utility–the default archive handler on Mac OS–to decompress Filename.dmg.bz2 creates a new file called Filename.dmg.bz2.cpgz. [...]

Posted 17 September 2008 § Reviews ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Bose Companion 5 Review

They sound great, if you like Bose’s clean, monitor-like sound. The sound is powerful, crisp and there are no distortions. I can’t say I was impressed by their 5.1-like capabilities, but I don’t have a lot of 5.1 content to throw at them. Design-wise, they are everything I hoped them to be: slick, mate metal [...]

Posted 05 June 2008 § Reviews ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,