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Not Always the Apple of My Eye
Yes, it's true. We are not all blind worshipers at the altar of the Holy Apple. Many of us are (mostly) mature computer users who have learned through experience the benefits of Macintosh ownership. The joy of (mostly) easy maintenance, of bundle-osity (iLife and...
Deal of the Century
Blink, blink, blink. Three months have gone by. Yikes. Time really does fly by. I apologize for not keeping up, I even had one person say they missed the articles. Wow, that means at least one person is actually reading them! So I guess I need to pick myself up and...
Found in Translation
And now the continuing saga of one man's battle to ride the tide of change. The Intel change, that is. And the battle is going pretty well. All those lovely Rosetta-marked icons are slowly fading from my DragThing palettes. Adobe's Design and Web Standard packages...
Divine Inspiration
I have always been a pushover for special effects in the movies, always wanted to be the guy behind the scenes doing the miniatures and blowing up things. Who wouldn't? Well, I have been given the opportunity to be the guy behind the scenes for my church, New Colony...
It Tolls for Me…
As many of you know, I took delivery on a brand new 24" iMac Core Duo, with two 2.33GHz processors, 2GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, and a 256 NVidia graphics card. I did this for a couple of reasons. 1.) I had no Intel Mac and I need to be keeping up with technology, 2.)...
Moving on Up
Not to the East Side, mind you, but to the Intel iMac. Yes, I packed up the 2.0 DP G5 tower and 20.1" Formac display and moved up to the 24" iMac 2.3 GHz Intel Core-Duo. The transition was almost completely painless. Although it took about 3 hours to transfer my 120GB...
Blogging Nirvana
Ok, I have been officially blogging for 1 year, 2 months and 11 days and have written 25 articles. While it may not make me an expert in blogging, I can safely say I have some experience doing it. Originally, I used Text Edit or BBEdit to write the articles, then I...
Licensed to Use
*** Insert James Bond Intro Here ***While keeping track of your software may not be as exciting as watching a James Bond flick, it could be as challenging as watching Mr. Bond fight the forces of evil in defense of England and the world. Maybe you have dozens of...
Where did all my drive space go?
Ok, there I was, deep in the Amazon jungle... No, wait... this is the wrong blog. Let me start again. Ok, there I was, cursor deep in the directory structure of my hard drive, slogging through documents and applications, not knowing which files were hogging space....