I don’t think I’m going to be able to resist getting one of these Core Duo Mac Minis. I was really worried that Apple would choose to cripple their Mac Mini’s and release only Solo versions, but thank goodness they’re still willing to innovate in the performance area as well. My pet theory is that […]
I stopped by the Apple store in downtown SF yesterday because we were walking around for a bit. I got a chance to play with Aperture on a G5 PowerMac with the 30 inch display. And to tell you the truth, I wasn’t that impressed. I was expecting/hoping for much improved performance, but it seemed […]
Well, according to PC web, the only step I was missing (after all the stuff in the two previoius posts) was to turn off the “Escape non-ASCII sequences” option the Emulation section of Terminal.app’s “Window Settings’ dialog. Terminal.app has this clever feature, where if you start inserting Japanese into the terminal, it displays the pre-edit […]
So after unsuccessfully lobbying our IT department to turn off Public Folders when the Exchange server is accessed through IMAP, I took the plunge and installed Thunderbird 1.5 for OS X. It actually works pretty well (which means: it doesn’t peg the CPU when updating imap folders, LDAP lookups work, even with substring searches, and […]
Has anyone noticed that Safari seems to be really slow now after the update? or rather, it gets stuck while loading pages.. a lot of the time, it seems to be stuck at loading the css file for a page, which means it can’t display the page at all. Clicking the stop button usually makes […]
It seems like the Mighty Mouse has been pretty much deemed a disappointment. The main reasons being: The scroll ball is a bit small and hard to use. It’s still really only one button. It’s wired. Here’s a couple ideas for a scroll mouse that gives you lateral scrolling: Touchpad mouse: Build a touchpad into […]
Something I’ve always wondered about lossy audio compression like AAC, MP3, ATRAC, and the like. Is it possible to have a high enough bitrate such that you are guaranteed to lose nothing? From my understanding of how most of these work, you take an input signal, and then transform it into another representation, then prune […]
So I downloaded an installed Adium X because I needed to chat with someone on Yahoo, and the Mac Yahoo messenger couldn’t be trusted. Why are the default send message and receive message sounds in Adium high and low pitched farts?
If you burn a CD with itunes, the next time you stick that CD in, the name of the CD shows up as the name of the playlist that it was burned from. Fine. The name of the tracks, however, are also present. How does it do this? Is it cd text? Is it some […]