Virtual Vista Machine

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 [...]

Snow Leopard

Another 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 [...]

What the #*@! is that printer doing in the dock?

I 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 [...]

“Back to My Mac”

Back to My Mac is a feature where a Mac user with an Apple .Mac account running Leopard can access his home Mac from anywhere in the world. Yesterday, I had a chance of testing this for the first time. It was so easy that there isn’t much to write about. I just opened a [...]