Optimality!

Back in May I reviewed my top 10 favorite features of Mac OS X. One of my Mac OS X Top X was pertaining to the connection to external projectors, monitors, or TVs. Back then I did not have the opportunity to try this feature with a widescreen Mac. Now I am in that fortunate [...]

After writing yesterday’s post, today I observed cars and in particular their rears with a fresh keen sense. It seems to me now that the key factor inhibiting good forward looking habits are tinted rear windows. Practically all large cars such as SUVs, pick-up trucks, and mini-vans have them these days. The only exception are [...]

Drive around town or the highway these days and seems that there are weigh more SUVs and the like than conventional passenger cars. The gas prices do not seem to be high enough, or have not been high enough for long enough to affect people sufficiently to change their means of transportation.
But this is not [...]

After switching to the Mac, I was very happy to notice that creation of PDF files was built right into the print dialog and part of the operating system. So unlike Windows, you don’t have to purchase to exorbitantly priced Adobe Acrobat to create PDF files. However, one problem I recently discovered is that [...]

It seemed that a disproportionate amount of time at this week’s Apple Special Event was spend on the new ‘Events‘ feature in iPhoto ‘08. Now, while I personally do not use iPhoto, other than for some iLife and iWork integration, and to order an occasional picture book, it seems like a rather mature application.
I am [...]

I just read on Macworld that Apple offers iMovie HD as a free download to iLife ‘08 customers. This seems equivalent to admitting that this upgrade is none, why else would you want to download an 18 month old program when you just upgraded?
The referenced article also has a good discussion on the topic. The [...]

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My initial joy of the redesigned iMovie ‘08 UI with clip browser did not last very long. Last night I checked out the tutorials and the getting started manual, and after reading some research today it appears all too clear that iMovie ‘08 did away with the timeline. Inconceivable!

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