As I continue to think about the future desktop purchase, I wondered if anyone has done a in-depth comparison of Windows vs OSX on the web. Well I found one “here”:http://www.xvsxp.com/ While interesting (their scores come out about even), the major flaw of this comparison (for me) is that they don’t consider the 3rd party […]
I’m planning to buy a desktop in the near future. But what kind of desktop, I’m not very clear. The reasons for getting a desktop, however, are very clear: * I can’t live without the expandibility, especially in the storage dimension. * I do too many things that require fast disks and fast CPUs, which […]
As an experiment, I uploaded some of my photos to work, and installed Lightroom Beta 3 on my Core Duo mac mini at work. The difference in performance is.. well.. depressing. As Lightroom doesn’t use CoreGraphics, it’s particularly dependent on CPU power, and the Core Duo just kicks the crap out of the G4 that […]
After coming back from Muir woods with a CF card full of photos, I tried to dump them on to my mac. I’ve done this many times before without problems, but not this time. I should have suspected something funny when Aperture didn’t pop up automatically. I manually started Aperture, then when to the import […]
It seems hard to find a good FTP/sftp app these days. But for some reason, I was searching around today and found Cyberduck, a fantastic open source ftp/sftp app for OSX. It seems to be active, feature complete, and polished. What more can you ask for? It also has a great feature that Fugu also […]
Here’s what I think it comes down to. Say theres some new type of software product. Let’s say the set of all features that this product can have is F, with features F1…F10. In the commercial world, someone will sit down and think hard and decide which subset of F will result in a good […]
I hadn’t run Entourage in a long time since it totally kills the overall performance of my Mac. Today, for some reason, I decided to try it again, and I was also, for some likewise unknown reason, inspired to turn off the ‘check mail every 20 minutes’ feature (this is done by disableing the “Send […]
I’m sure I’ve written something very similar in the past, but I want to rant again, because it came up. First I looked at Ruby on Rails, then I started looking around for equivalents that were written in python, since the languages are sort of fundamentally similar, and I already know python pretty well so […]
Perhaps I should extend my reviews to mice as well. Although I don’t go through nearly as many as I do keyboards, I suppose that could be changed… Anyhow, today, I did also receive the Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 that I had ordered earlier this week. I’ve plugged it into my Powerbook at home to […]
I guess this is quickly becoming the place where I talk about all the little small things that bother me. In this episode, I look at color schemes, specifically, schemes for presenting text. I spend most of my time at work working with some sort of text terminal. I’ve spent a good portion of my […]