Category: Apple

  • Wow, 10.4.7 sees my Verizon Novatel card

    I’ve been successfully using a Verizon wireless broadband card (the Novatel v620 pc card) since April in my Powerbook thanks to a software hack from the good folk at the EVDO Info web site. It basically made the Novatel card look like any other modem, showing up on a pull down list on my menu…

  • Boo-hoo, Civ IV Mac

    Well, it seems you need a G5 or Intel-based Mac to play Civ IV. Looks like I’m outta luck since I’ve got neither and the whole idea was to play on the commuter train on my Powerbook G4 (ps don’t ever, ever buy 1st generation hardware like round I of the new Macbook Pro). At…

  • Hurray, Civ IV on my PB

    Just one more month until Civ IV is available for Macs. Hmm, should make the daily commute more fun and the rest of life slightly less productive…

  • Slowly comes the needed stuff for Macbook Pro

    Phew — according to Om Malik, here comes a wireless broadband card (in Verizon and Sprint’s EV-DO flavor) that fits in the MacBook Pro’s new expresscard/34 slot. And the good folk at EVDOInfo even have a photo. Yes.

  • Where oh where is an iPod recorder

    I’m loving my iPod “with video” more than ever, but I am missing big-time the recording capability of my old 3G iPod with its Griffin Technology iTalk accessory. I’ve been waiting for months for a replacement. In January, a small company called Xtrememac pre-announced a product called the Micromemo that looked cool, was a bit…

  • Scott McNeally’s iPod bashing

    Staci at PaidContent is reporting Sun CEO Scott McNealy’s latest off-base, self-interested ranting. I guess the thin client thing has died so now Scott is taking aim at the portable music market. In Scott’s dream world, cell phones accessing music stored on central servers, Sun servers no doubt, will overtake the iPod. “It’s going to…

  • Best in show at macworld – nice gear

    Beyond the well-rehearsed revelations of his Steveness, the Macworld Expo is also an opportunity for the rest of the Mac ecosystem to show off its latest and greatest wares. I’m obviously not in SF, but I caught up with some cool-looking stuff via Macs Only and Macworld. Keep in mind that I haven’t actually touched…

  • Google Earth is on the Mac – Now update my block!

    Thanks to my old boss, John Battelle, I learned that Google has finally released a Mac version of its useful and nifty mapping program, Google Earth, that lets you zoom all around satellite photos of the world, measure distances and generally get to know any place like the birds do. Downloaded to my 17″ Powerbook…

  • MacBook Pro – it gets worse before it gets better

    As more and more becomes known about the new Intel-based MacBook Pro, there’s more and more to get worried about. Rosyna at Unsanity.com’s blog has a host of concerns beyond those that I mentioned yesterday, including the demise of dual-sided DVD writing capability and the loss of the PowerPC’s Altivec feature that speeds up multimedia.…

  • MacBook Pro – when little problems add up

    Updated 1/11 after Carl Longino commented that I incorrectly described his post Kudos to Steve Jobs and Co for pulling off the transition to Intel chips faster than most expected. At today’s MacWorld show, Jobs unveiled an iMac and a new laptop, dubbed the MacBook Pro (will iBooks soon be renamed MacBook amateur?) running with…