It seems to me that ever since Apple switched to Intel CPUs there is no more exciting topic than the ins and outs about running Windows on a Mac. Macworld is running an article called “The Best of Both Worlds” and argues that you need to run Windows just so that you are able to run Office 2007.
I just don’t get it. Continue reading
Posted in Mac OS X Platform, MS-Windows Platform
When you read articles or listen to podcasts about digital music in general or iTunes and DRM in particular, you will notice that nearly everybody talks about “digital downloads”. People never talk about just downloads, as if it was special that they are digital.
Now, when you talk about music, then the qualifier digital makes a little bit more sense since it could be analog, but even that is not true unless you listen to records or tapes. But with regard to the computer, everything is digital, the documents, the pictures, the music, and the movies, so in an effort to keep things simple, and to make them not sound more important/or more complicated then they are, lets just call it download because there is no such thing as an analog download.
Posted in Language
This is just a quick link to two knowledge base articles on Apples website regarding:
Final Cut Express: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow for iDVD
and
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Workflow
Macworld had an interesting article today about the Mac development efforts at Google. Probably most interesting was a link to a Google site dedicated just to Mac software development: Google Mac Developer Playground.
Posted in Mac OS X Platform, Software Development, Tips & Tricks
Tagged Code, Development, Google, Mac, OS X
One of my first posts on this blog was a description of my idea alarm clock: Dreaming about an Alarm Clock. One of my key desired features was to set a separate alarm for each day of the week. Every time a new iPod radio alarm has been released, I eagerly read the online documentation, just to be disappointed again. Today I saw this article about a new rather strange “gadget’: The Chumby. Continue reading