Category: 'Hardware'
Hell hasn’t frozen over, yet…
Posted on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
I know Apple didn’t mind if anyone were to install Windows (XP) on their new Intel Macs. But actively making it feasible by themselves? Apple – Boot Camp: More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS [...]
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PocketMod, Hipster PDA or Ductster PDA
Posted on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
The PDA* market is becoming quite competitive it seems. Once a small niche, it looks to be ready for main-stream. There have been no mergers, buy-outs or busts … yet. But hey, it’s still an emerging market. Here’s the short-list: PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer: Nice pocket-sized, folding design, but takes a while to [...]
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Which Browsers matter in 2006?
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
If you are planning to build or rebuild a site this year you may wonder at some point which browsers you should support. If not, you should! Just looking at your new design in IE 6 is no guarantee it works and behaves the same in any other browser. Not that long ago the browser [...]
Posted in Apple, Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet Explorer, Opera, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
Google Earth Mac Beta
Posted on Saturday, December 10th, 2005
After an evening of trying out the non-public beta of Google Earth for Mac OS X I must say… YES! Finally. I, and a lot of Mac owners, have been eager to run this piece of software on a Mac. And now we can. Not officially, because the download page at earth.google.com still mentions Apple [...]
Posted in Apple, General, Google, Google Earth, Internet, News, ThinkLemon, Utilities | 3 Comments »
{Canvas} demo
Posted on Monday, November 28th, 2005
If you’re viewing this post with a release candidate of Firefox 1.5, take a look at the below <canvas> demo. For now, you can only walk through a maze from a first person perspective. But it runs smooth and looks pretty impressive. See the “3D Walker” demo on Canvascape PS: It is rumored to work [...]
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Exploring the earth from your couch, part 2
Posted on Friday, November 18th, 2005
Imagine yourself sitting down on your couch in front of your television, as usual. A drink in one hand, the TV remote in the other. Don’t worry, the chips are within reach. Within the press of a button, or two. You spin up a three dimensional globe and with the directional buttons on your remote [...]
Posted in Apple, Development, General, Google Earth, MSN Search, ThinkLemon, Utilities | 2 Comments »
Google Earth for Mac, developers wanted…
Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Or so it seems. Google wants a Senior Macintosh Developer – Mountain View and/or a Macintosh Developer – Mountain View. I suggest any Mac-developer have a go and bring us… Google Earth for Mac. You may be very familiar with some of our desktop products including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, and Google Talk., the [...]
Posted in Apple, Desktop, General, Google, Google Earth, News, Utilities | 3 Comments »
Apple iBook. On Second Thoughts.
Posted on Monday, September 5th, 2005
It’s officialy a month ago since I bought my 12″ Apple iBook. Coming from a WinTel world I must admit, it has been an overall positive experience. But there also have been some quirks I haven’t got used to. So here’s a short list of things I hate or love about my Mac: Dashboard is [...]
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Comparing Apples and Lemons*
Posted on Friday, September 2nd, 2005
So how do you compare an Apple running OS X with a Windows based PC? Many a flame-war has started over this matter. Just a few examples: Apple geeks will tell you any PowerPC 0wnz Intel. But it seems Intel 0wnz Apple soon. Microsoft alledgedly has copied the Mac interface, in fact it was a [...]
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Apple iBook. First impressions.
Posted on Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
It has been a couple of days since I collected my iBook from the store. Mind you, it is my first personally owned Mac. And it has been fun exploring a new OS and fiddling with all the options on the machine. In fact it still is fun. Everything I’ve thrown at it so far [...]
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