Tag Archive for tag: macintosh
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Tag Archive for tag: macintosh
Polytrope’s Dead Again article about how PC uses view Mac users is good, but has a very interesting bit at the bottom: “I can’t help feeling that Mac users are the gays of the personal computing world. Our existence itself makes ‘straight’ PC users uncomfortable. There’s something about the Mac OS that seems to PC [...]
Today’s installment of Daring Fireball is a great pro-Mac, though fairly argued, essay that gets to the heart of why Windows pcs are more common than Macs, especially in corporate environments. The one shortcoming of the essay, though, is that it’s a binary argument: Windows vs. Macintosh, with no mention of Linux or other free [...]
Most for my own reference, but useful for anyone using a mac: Magical Macintosh Key Sequences [via Mr. Barrett]
Derrick Story’s latest O’Reilly piece is about Making Movies with your iSight. I don’t have one yet, but this sounds like some fun stuff. I’m looking for an inexpensive way to make movies of Daniel without shelling out for a DV camera.
Despite its shortcomings (I’m looking forward to the 1.1 release), the whole iCal “system” is pretty cool. Several websites have sprung up around iCal. iCal Exchange is a free service where you can publish your iCal calendars so that others may subscribe to them. It serves as an alternative to Apple’s pricey .Mac service (which [...]
