Mac

Leapord Update – Spotted in the Wild

I got an IM from my friend Nick yesterday asking if I had taken the OS X 10.5.2 update yet. I didnt realize it had been released. He relayed a story of whoa, regarding unstable, high processor usage and unhappiness. I had not updated yet, but resolved not to until I heard more. Then I got home that night and was talking with my wife, and she relayed that she had taken the update and was...

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VMWare Fusion 1.1.1 – Available for download

I just wanted to post this little reminder for folks to do their upgrade. I have been very happy with Fusion since jumping over from parallels about a year ago. One of my biggest pet peeves about fusion was that when I started my Boot Camp partition it always asked for my password. But the box that popped up didn’t have focus so I had to actually grab it and then input my password. So...

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Apple Stock on the Move?

I was following twitter this morning and noticed a couple posts from Eric about apples stock prices. In one he mentions an article that was published today that expects apple shares to reach as high as $205 a share. Thats seemed amazingly high to me so I started looking around. As everyone always compares Apple and Microsoft I was curious how the 2 looked on the stock market. A link from...

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Disappointed in the Apple WWDC Keynote

I was really hoping for some new news today. With the exception of telling us people are making games, the desktop has a new GUI, and you can make AJAX apps for the iPhone I dont think there was anything new. Apple has set the bar very high for its keynotes and to day was not up to par. Of course my analysis is only from the live blogging of the event, but I feel like it really lacked that...

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Getting To Know Your Mac – Part 4

In part one of this little blogging rampage I am on I talked about how happy I am that the GUI (Aqua) and the underlying OS (BSD – Unix) are separate. Today that is more true than ever. As all computers do my computer has been acting a little weird. But I really didnt think too much of it. After being gone for a week, I came back to it telling me there was a new os update. I consider...

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