Category: os x

  • 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…

  • Can overhyped Flock deliver?

    Once upon a time, oh say, 6 months ago, the hypemiesters descended on a new browser called Flock that wasn’t quite ready for primetime leading to the inevitable backlash. Flock, based on open-source Firefox code, was supposed to have nifty integration with blogs and photo sites and other such socially-oriented web 2.0 stuff but it…

  • iPhoto 6 speed-up is real

    So says web developer Garrett Murray on his blog. Like Garrett, I buy the iLife suite updates almost exclusively for iPhoto so this is happy news: “Application Loading (from launch until all thumbnails appear) iPhoto 5: 14.1 seconds iPhoto 6: 3.0 seconds Application Closing (from quit command until gone) iPhoto 5: 9.4 seconds iPhoto 6:…

  • 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 – 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…

  • Gruber’s in rare form on iTunes 5

    John Gruber’s on a hilarious, Entourage-inspired rant about the wacky new user interface Apple put on the latest version of iTunes. Make sure your mouth isn’t full when you read it.

  • Comparing Windows Vista and Mac OS X

    The ever-thoughtful Paul Thurrott has a typically thoughtful and nuanced comparison of Windows Vista Beta 1 and Mac OS X Tiger. I don’t agree with everything he says, but it’s a useful and informative essay.

  • Wasting away again in Panther-ita-ville

    Om Malik is switching back — from Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger to Mac OS X 10.3 aka Panther. Problems with overheating Powerbooks, Mail and VPNs. As I said back in April, you have to wait out the bugs, but it’s a huge bummer that this many months past launch, I’m still stuck in…

  • Motorola e815 – best of a sorry lot for Macs

    Verizon — just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Years ago in New York City, I subscribed with Verizon Wireless but when I moved back to Massachusetts, they had little to offer in terms of cool phones that played nice with Macs and their prices were substantially higher than everyone…