I wrote earlier that I was working on getting my Vista BootCamp install to run virtually in Mac OS X under VMWare Fusion. Well, VMWare updated their software to version 1.1.3 which resolved the issue of having to re-authenticate Vista so I did and it works. Running under Fusion, you don’t get the cool Windows [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Virtual Vista Machine
June 28, 2008iPhone Noys
June 28, 2008It’s been a while since I’ve written. Frankly, the news of the new iPhone 3G is drowning out news of everything else. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to stand in line to get mine as soon as I can. But there’s not much to say that isn’t already common knowledge and that ain’t much [...]
Firefox 3.0
June 20, 2008Good news, fellow surfers! Firefox 3.0 has been released and I have to say that this is the best browser I’ve ever used. It’s fast and the developers have figured out how we use browsers and have made the most user friendly one yet.
First off, it doesn’t clash with the rest of your applications. You [...]
Windows Server 2003 Install
June 17, 2008This past Saturday was spent installing Windows Server 2003 on my stand alone PC this weekend in hopes of making it a domain server primarily. I ran out of time before I could finish, but the thing that was holding me up was actually joining the domain that I had created. I set it up [...]
Snow Leopard
June 11, 2008Another thing that was touched on at Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference yesterday was teh official announcement of Mac OS X 10.6, officially dubbed Snow Leopard. With this major release, there will be no new features, but it will be an optimization of the OS. No one knows what they are going to charge or [...]
3G iPhone
June 11, 2008Yesterday, Steve announced the new iPhone 3G. You’ve seen the news already so I’ll not expand on it. I’m just saying that I’m there. Sign me up! Having real internet access anywhere there’s coverage, MobileMe, GPS will be so cool! Oh, and did I mention that they cut the price to $199? Very nice.
What the #*@! is that printer doing in the dock?
June 7, 2008I don’t print much, but I’ve found recently that when I print, the printer stays in my dock after the print job is done. Dum dee doh dee dum dum dumb. This is apparently a new feature of Leopard. For Pete’s sake, who’s brainy idea was this? “Let’s clutter the dock with more stuff people [...]
Battery Calibration
June 6, 2008I ran across this new bit of maintenance for laptops at MacWorld.com. It is called battery calibration. I’ve always tried to keep good battery practices for keeping my battery healthy for a long life. These things ain’t cheap! The main thing you want to do for your battery is to keep its recharge cycles low. [...]
Mac vs. Windows: Two Ideologies
June 2, 2008I was reading an article in ars technica today by a programmer about why he switched from being a Windows developer to a Mac. He has only finished two out of three parts of his article so far, but it has been very interesting. One thing that Apple has done that Microsoft refuses to do [...]
