Saturday, January 25, 2014
Apple is celebrating
30 years of the Macintosh. It's a neat site, because you participate by entering which was your first Mac and what did you do with it.
My first Mac was the PowerBook 140, the beginning of my fascination with their laptops. I'm planning to get their latest MacBook Pro with Retina Display, but I'm waiting for the right time. It seems like I'm always waiting for the right time with Apple.
After the PowerBook 140 came the PowerBook 190 five years later. Then came the TiBook another seven years during which I wanted but never could buy a desktop Mac. My first one was a Mac Mini… I'll keep waiting and waiting for a better desktop…
Here's to another 30 more years of the Mac and to Apple.
Labels: anniversaire, Apple, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
7:06:00 AM
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Funny review of the latest revision of OS X, Mountain Lion. It's even funnier, if you had read each and every review ArsTechnica did for each OS X version.
http://www.marco.org/2012/07/25/siracusa-mountain-lion-review-reviewLabels: Apple, lotd, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
12:05:00 PM
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Took the MBP to
MacMedics because she has to
get fixed. I think I should just get a new one.
She was starting to report drive issues when I hooked up DiskUtility to her. That can't be good. Hopefully, this cloned drive is good and I can restore it to as it was before she got sick.
My suggestion to you. Backup. Backup. Backup.
Labels: anger and frustration, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
12:22:00 PM
Monday, May 07, 2012
MacBook Pro is weezing and injured.
The laptop on the left lost its display last Tuesday. I've been connecting to it via screen sharing, but even that is going. It takes two or three boots before it displays itself on the network. When I mounted it as a firewire drive, it complained that the drive was bad. Running DiskUtility on it and DiskUtility wants me to copy as much off the disk as possible and reformat.
I've Carbon Copy Cloned her drive, but haven't tested if the copy was good. Fingers are crossed that the back up went well, because I'm going to have to try and get her fixed up. Or maybe its time for a new laptop. A new MacBook Pro with an SSD drive!
Labels: Apple, Macs, not good
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
9:48:00 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Link of the Day [9.10.11]
I don't understand why you need to configure anything anymore. It's best to just get it out of the box. If it works, it works.
Configuration is for saps!
http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/new_apple_advantage- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Labels: Apple, commerce, genius, iPhone, lotd, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
7:15:00 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2011
I did purchase Lion last night and currently in the middle of the download. Actually, I'm nowhere near the middle as my pocky, slow-ass DSL will take a few days to pull in the full 3+ GB file. That's one strike against it. Only when the US internet speeds are decent will digital downloads be awesome.
Anyhow, if it's a new version of OS X, then it's time for the Ars Technica data dump/review. If you played around with Lion, read it and see if it matches your experience. If you haven't, read it and see if it gets you to upgrade.
Now back to my download.... {I'll see you in a couple of days...}
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.arsLabels: Apple, lotd, Macs, review
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
12:02:00 AM
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Purchased Lion for the MacIntel Mini. Downloading it as we speak. On DSL. This will take a few days.
It took a couple of days to get
Disappearance and that was a good 3+ GB torrent. Why'd I do it. I have no idea, but for $25 I think it may be worth it for a major upgrade to OS X.
When's Liger coming out?
Labels: Apple, i bought this, Macs, mini
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:22:00 PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Just bought one of these SSD drives from OWC. I'm using as my storage disk for music and photos. Or rather, I am planning to use it, but like the last hard drive I bought, I haven't gone through the steps to break down both media libraries and transfer them to that drive.
Yup, it's a network drive hanging off the Airport Express. I chose an SSD drive so that I don't have to worry about spinning disc failure. I, also, want to connect it to Mobile Me and Back To My Mac so that I can access it from the road. Yet, I can't really figure out how that all works. I have yet to successfully log onto my Mini from outside the house. I'm even having trouble with logging onto it via remote desktop while I am home.
All this network computing -- it's all ridiculous.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_ProLabels: interNOT, lotd, Macs, shill
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
3:24:00 AM
Thursday, February 24, 2011
New MacBooks are here! New MacBooks are here!
No idea what this means for computing technology. Sounds cool and exciting.
http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm
Labels: Apple, lotd, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
9:53:00 AM
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
I do not like this
development at all.
It will bring junk to the Mac. Look at the mobile AppStore.
Plus, that split is bothering me. Why should I get permission to put an application out for others to download to their own computer.
Don't like this development one bit.
Labels: Apple, apps, Macs, software development
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
2:15:00 PM
I need to revisit my 5 year plan. Get the fuck out of IniTech and go all Delicious Mac development.
But no.
I'm a pussy.
That's why I work at IniTech.
(I think I wrote this post 5 years ago) FML
Labels: Apple, get me out of here, get off your butt, I am me, I'm a fool, Macs, whining
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
1:20:00 PM
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Link of the Day [9.11.10]
As you know, I play the guitar. Or rather "play" the guitar -- I'm rather bad at it and have no rhythm whatsoever. Still, I love to play it and can't wait to get another one. In the meantime, I usually try to play songs I like from bands I like. Rolling Stones. Alice in Chains. The Doors. Their songs are simple and playable from guitar tabs found on the net. That's why I like them.
But there are lots of songs I would love to play, but their tabs are hard to find or nonexistent. Let's get software to figure it out for us. Here's a nice Mac program that can help you do just that. I want to try it really bad, but I have to much stuff to do. Perhaps, you can?
http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/Labels: "blog as notepad", genius, lotd, Macs, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
12:07:00 AM
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
The Snow Leopard
dealbreaker. I hope they fix this bug, but I hope it ain't a feature.
This is most likely an addition for those Windows switchers. It makes us fools. Damn. I wish Windows switchers would stay on their own side of the fence. They're puking in our punch bowl and calling it alphabet soup.
Labels: Macs, NewsRadio quote, software development
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:15:00 PM
Monday, February 02, 2009
sad mac
Originally uploaded by aigarashi36.Oh! Noes!
(Shouldn't this be titled sad 1st gen ipod?)
Labels: Macs, picture
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:39:00 PM
Monday, January 26, 2009
This article about Windows taskbar and the OS X dock goes into some of the reasons I hate working on a PC. It has mainly to do with Multiple Document Interface (MDI).
I'm clumsy it expressing my hatred for Windows implementation, so read today's link and appreciate the Mac paradigm. It also goes along way into understanding why your mom who uses a Mac keeps leaving applications running instead of quitting out of them.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/dock-and-windows-7-taskbar.arsLabels: lotd, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
12:22:00 AM
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
No new Mini. :(
Labels: Apple, dreams, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
1:35:00 PM
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Mac Mini Desktop 11-19-2008
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.Show me your desktops.
I was wondering what your desktop looks like. Cluttered with files? Neat and pristine like the day you bought it? Weird desktop pics, funky icons, or a completely different theme? Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, commnad line?
Just show me your desktop.
So post a picture somewhere, flickr or some such, and put the link in the comment or on your blog. Let's see what we can see.
Labels: Macross Frontier, Macs, screenshot
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
7:14:00 PM
Saturday, November 01, 2008
I tried OpenOffice years ago. This was when you had to run it as an x11 application. It totally sucked. Why? First, it had a non-native interface. X11 is Unix apps with all the window-y, unix-y stylizations that that entails. Second, it was slow. On my TiBook it was still rather silly to launch, and menus just appeared with a noticeable delay. Third, X11. You probably don't run it. You probably shouldn't run it. You need admin rights to launch OpenOffice. You need to know some command line kung fu as well. It was just painful to use, and I am glad to be using Pages or Google docs instead.
That said, it looks like they are getting around to making it an okay app to run on OS X.
Once it is out of open source/unix-y developers hands, it will take off.
http://www.openoffice.org/Labels: lotd, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
7:52:00 AM
Friday, October 17, 2008
Apple asks, "Which MacBook are you?"
http://www.apple.com/mac/whichmacbook/TheSeed will probably answer, "none of the above."
I'm the old school, last gen, aluminum MacBook Pro. Can I be the next
gen PowerBook user?
Taking a look at that page, the MacBook Air is pretty sorry looking, so
last year's model. When will it get the new cosmetics to make it sleek
and sexy like its brethren?
Labels: Apple, Macs
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
8:47:00 AM
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
"I mean the updates are cute and all... but I think I actually prefer the refurb of previous gen. I like the old silver keys."
TheSeed, hoisted from comments in today's "Link of the Day"
Labels: Apple, Macs, qotd
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
6:00:00 PM
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