Don Reisinger:
While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once [...]
From now through October 1st you can get Cyndicate bundled with EagleFiler for just $55 through Mac News Junkie Bundle. Hopefully everyone reading this already knows about Cyndicate, my feed reader. EagleFiler is a great archiving app from Michael Tsai of C-Command Software. In a nutshell, it gives you the ability to [...]
News hit the various rumor sites that Apple allegedly seeded a small update through System Update today for Leopard. A couple people commented that they were concerned about another possible delay in the release date. Going on past history, they frequency of seeds usually goes up as GM status nears and that it [...]
Wil Shipley:
We suffer from increased prices and decreased competition and innovation. We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is clearly not hurting for money. The core of Apple users has supported Apple for years — we were there when Apple was hurting, we stuck with it, we nursed her back [...]
And another reason I’m a Mac user from the newly outed Mac user Mark Cubank:
Then I upgraded my PC to Vista. What a disaster. I had grown accustomed to my PC freezing every now and then. Enter Vista and my PC was frozen more often than it was working. The biggest culprit was MicroSoft Outlook.
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The [...]
Steven Frank:
There’s one final insult, which is that Sony has scattered the installers across two DVDs so that the restore process requires manual intervention in the form of 5 or 6 disc swaps, not at all unlike trying to copy a floppy disk 20 years ago.
Steven has a great post about Windows running better [...]
Bill Bumgarner:
Ten years ago, Wired published an issue of their silly ‘zine that claimed Apple was pretty much dead and listed 100 ways to save the company.
Some of them are completely ridiculous like abandon mach for the WinNT kernel when the article was published a few months after buying NeXT or holding a telethon, but [...]
ByteCellar:
I ran across a story of a user who had put an Apple Newton eMate 300 to similar duty on his Sun box. Being an eMate owner myself and having a vacant Mac-style serial port on my dual-port Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter, I felt I must get this going as well.
I wish I had a serial [...]
Joel writes about the The Perils of JavaSchools and I couldn’t agree with him more. It is something that I’ve thought for awhile now due to my education. I was about half way though my college career when ASU made the switch from C/C++ to Java and I saw a big decline in the quality [...]
Daniel over at Red Sweater gives a nice little tip for adding a favorites section at the top of Xcode’s new file window. Since 95% of the time I’m using 1 of 3 templates it should save a couple seconds here and there. Plus hunting through the list is a pain sometimes.