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 ‘install’. […]
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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 shortlist […]
Posted in Webdesign, Development, WebDev, Apple, Design, Opera, Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, General | 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 […]
Posted in Utilities, Apple, Google Earth, Google, News, ThinkLemon, Internet, General | 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 on Safari […]
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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, Google Earth, Utilities, MSN Search, ThinkLemon, Development, General | 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., […]
Posted in Apple, Google Earth, Utilities, Desktop, News, Google, General | 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 overrated. […]
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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 Xerox first. […]
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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 […]
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