Posts Tagged ‘mac os x’

iPhone 3G, AppStore, Apps, Firmware 2.0 and mobileme are all set to release in July 11th.
Snow Leopard: Announced.  Will be discussed after lunch.
35% of Fortune 500 participated in iPhone beta.
iPhone: exchange support, push email/contacts/calendars, auto-discovery, global address book, remote wipe, contact filter search, geo-location of other iphones (contacts), NO TASK MANAGER – Apple to provide push service [...]


My new laptop!

03Jun08

I just got the current generation Macbook Pro base model a few days ago.
I love it!
15″ Widescreen LED Display
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667MHz DDR2 memory
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3
200GB Serial ATA Hard Drive; 5400 rpm
8x Optical SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
In addition, it has a built-in camera, backlit keyboard, optical audio out, DVI [...]


so, i have a beta copy of leopard.  shh.
here’s my impressions (bearing in mind that it is a beta)
-) the unified look they discussed at WWDC (no more brushed metal) is GREAT.  the operating system looks much more professional and puts vista to shame.  it doesn’t try to be super flashy, just clean, and clean [...]


I have compiled a new list of must-have items for Mac OS X, items in bold are most important (yeah, yeah.. most of them):
3ivX – Video Codec
Adium – Multi-service Chat Client
$Cocktail – System Maintenance & Hidden Options
DivX – Video Codec
Firefox – Web Browser
Flip4Mac – Quicktime Plug-in for WM Video/Audio
Growl – Plug-in-based System Notifications
Handbrake – DVD [...]


Winblowz

06Jan07

So here I am, setting on Windows, installing SimCity.. and so far I’ve had to download 2 different pieces of software just to unzip the file and mount the disc image.
Everything that is quick, easy and fast on OS X is so sloooooooow on Windows.. it took over 5 minutes just to unrar a [...]


For what it’s worth, all of these pieces of software officially now have my seal of approval. I have switched from Safari to Firefox (Mac), Bittorrent to Transmission (also Mac), MySpace to Blogger and I’ve started using Digg rather frequently.
All are worthwhile and you should check them out, here ya go:

Blogger – Google Blog [...]