Of Mice and Men
March 31, 2008
While I recently bought a new mouse for my MacBook and was quite pleased with it I felt something was missing. I really wanted a wireless mouse solution. I often grab my MacBook and head upstairs to show something cool to my wife and kids (they think I’m a Mac Fanboy now) or grab it for a meeting with someone. Unplugging the mouse from the USB port is not really that big of a deal but I’ve got Bluetooth capabilities on this machine - why not use them?
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The Tao of I. T. Al #9
March 28, 2008
Safari vs. Firefox
March 28, 2008
Prior to becoming a Mac user I had a deep hatred for Safari. Why you ask? Safari was the bane of my existence as a web site developer. Since I had a Windows centered view on the world I built everything with IE and then Firefox in mind on the Windows platform. We would spend huge amounts of time getting a dynamic web site to work properly and then someone would load it up on a Mac in Safari and it would just fall apart. Things didn’t line up, pages that used DHTML and more advanced presentation capabilities would simply not work. It was a mess. Read more
After three weeks, what’s really being used?
March 27, 2008
When I started writing about my MacBook three weeks ago I figured it would be a great way to capture what it’s like for a total Windows snob to open up and add a Mac to his collection of computers. What I didn’t expect was that I would actually make a small 5 pound laptop my primary machine when I have some serious Windows and Linux hardware sitting right next to me. Read more
Time to back up Drifter
March 26, 2008
First off, I finally named my machine. I always name machines from some genre of science fiction, usually Star Wars because the names are short and easy to spell, but in the case of my Mac I figured I would break with tradition and name him Drifter. I have no idea why, it just came to me and stuck. Since this is a MacBook that I constantly grab off the desk and take with me places I figured it was appropriate. Read more
Running applications automatically at startup
March 25, 2008
One of the features I used in Windows was the Start / Startup folder. Any shortcut I threw in there would automatically run when I started up Windows. For me that was the Task Manager, my OneNote screen Clipper and Windows Desktop Search. So how to do this with my Mac? Read more
Bumping the memory in the MacBook
March 24, 2008
I decided that I wanted to max out the memory in my MacBook since I’m running more and more on the little machine. Though 2GB is normally plenty I figured 4GB couldn’t hurt. When I looked on NewEgg and started scoping out RAM prices I was shocked to see how far they had fallen.
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The Tao of I. T. Al #8
March 21, 2008
CSSEdit - what a great find!
March 19, 2008
In my quest to move more of my software development over to Mac I started looking around for a decent solution for HTML/XHTML and CSS development. On Windows my CSS Editor of choice was TopStyle, a really great application, but there isn’t a Mac version. I ran through quite a few products over the extended weekend but found one that impressed me so much I bought it within 20 minutes of trying it out. Read more
Getting away from the “Start” mindset
March 18, 2008
I’ve never been a big fan of lots of icons sitting on my Windows desktop; I have a few key ones, then use a highly organized Start menu to gain access to my applications. So when I started working with my Mac I adopted the same mindset: Push some key applications that I access frequently into the Dock, then hit the Finder and switch to Applications for everything else. Read more
