Tag Archives: mac

OpinionSpy

The Mac Security Blog: Applications that Install OpinionSpy. Mac spyware. Not anything you’re likely to run into.

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Source QuickLook

A QuickLook plugin for C++ and other languages.

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MobileMe: Thumbs down

I’ve been playing with MobileMe for about a week. The vision has expanded since I last looked at .Mac, but it’s still nowhere near ready. Unreliable push contacts on the iPod touch are not worth the grief or the money. … Continue reading

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.Mac thoughts

So I’m about five days into my free .Mac trial, and I thought I’d write up some thoughts. I pay about $60 per year for 500 GB of storage and 5 TB of bandwidth from DreamHost. .Mac costs $100 per … Continue reading

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Beating a dead horse

My relationship with Microsoft Word for the Mac has always been a love/hate one. I can’t really describe why I love it – there’s just something about the way the main document window behaves that fills me with word processing … Continue reading

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Newer's 65 watt power adapter

Although my wife uses my old Titanium PowerBook G4, she’s using the adapter for my Aluminum 12″ PowerBook G4. Although they look different, they’re compatible. The Aluminum one is higher wattage, and has a safety ground and a LED at … Continue reading

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Sketchfighter 4000 Alpha Released

Sketchfighter 4000 Alpha, the Mac OS X-only game from Ambrosia that uses OpenGL to create visuals that look like doodles on graph paper, has finally been released. It took a lot of will power to stop after only five minutes!

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MacBook goes Core 2 Duo

Apple’s upgraded the MacBook’s CPU. I was expecting Apple to keep a gap between the MacBook and MacBook Pro for a while, and I wasn’t even sure it would be an artificial gap.

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Plug and play: Canon N656U

Last night I tried to connect my Canoscan N656U to a computer. First, I tried the Mac. Connecting the device did nothing. Pushing the button on the device did nothing. A search of Canon’s website revealed a driver, but the … Continue reading

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ShowTime: The Big Picture

John Gruber has a quick look at Apple’s latest batch of announcements, but lingers on the problems and trade-offs involved. He reminisces on the style of Steve Jobs and the growth of Apple’s iTunes/iPod empire. Good read.

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