Optimality!

This Macworld article has a good comprehensive overview of the different installation options when upgrading the operating system. What I found particularly interesting is the following comment about the archive and install option:

Tags: Mac OS X Platform, Software

Here’s a great little article outlining some new Leopard features that will help you to help your family and parents with their computer problems.

So a month ago, I finally took the plunge, or rather, I plunged my parents into switching to the Mac platform after years of Windows agony for them, and for me trying to explain things to them. No more. I set up an VNC remote administration to be able to help them through the transition [...]

Of all the new features in Leopard, the one I read about today may just be the most exciting. At least for people that regularly use more than one Mac, yet like to have all their files available all the time. In the past that meant some painful synchronization. I am using ChronoSync to accomplish [...]

The updates of iWork ’08 are definitely worth to upgrade. The new features have been described in detail elsewhere so I won’t go into that here. But what I have not read anywhere so far is the amazing diet iWork went onto…

I don’t know about you, but I am less than thrilled by the recent re-emergence of voice activated phone selections. Call any airline, insurance, credit card, or online store these days, and more likely than not (in the authors experience) you will be presented with a menu that requests you “SAY” the option, rather than [...]

I just have to write another update on my tinted window posts. In the past I talked about SUVs/Pickups/Minivans as well as certain kinds of passenger cars (either luxury limousines or souped-up ghetto cars). Unfortunately, I now find that this is not true any more either. I see more and more “normal” cars with tinted [...]