Vide-O-Rama

Posted by Doug on May 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Posting has been sparse — I've been busy, busy, busy at Ye Olde Shoppe Of Employment[e] and engaging in family-related matters and thus have had precious little time for blog-related silliness.
I haven't been so busy as to miss out on some of the excellent entertainment the Internet is known to (occasionally) yield, so please sit [...]

Posted in Humor, Macintosh, Politics, Videos

On Psystar, Apple And Conspiracy Theories

Posted by Doug on May 14th, 2008 | 6 Comments

I was listening to this week's TWiT on my commute in this morning when one of the TWiTs mentioned that they were taking a pass on the Psystar Open Computer (essentially a gray box hacked to run OS X Leopard) because the threat of an Apple lawsuit putting Psystar out of business is simply too [...]

Posted in Apple, Computers, Macintosh, Observations

I'm Picking Up Extremely High Levels Of "Enterprise" Humor In This Sector, Captain.

Posted by Doug on April 8th, 2008 | No Comments

From the Mac OS X section of Sun/EMC/Legato's HTML manual for their Networker Enterprise Backup System (EBS) version 7.3.2:

Ref. cack vs. the intended "backup" for full humorous effect.
Those who have used vainly attempted to use EMC's EBS offering on the Mac (particularly Intel Macs) will find this highly amusing, I suspect.

Posted in Humor, Macintosh, Work

I Was Saying "Boo, Urns!"

Posted by Doug on January 15th, 2008 | 5 Comments

I don't know if you were paying attention to technology news today, but Apple held a little keynote address at their yearly Macworld Expo at which Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air, a pretty freakin' cool piece of ultra-lightweight mobile computing technology. He also announced a free firmware update for the iPhone which adds [...]

Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Observations, Technology

NetNewsWire 3.1 Is Now Free (As In Beer)

Posted by Doug on January 9th, 2008 | No Comments

NetNewsWire, by far my favorite RSS/Atom feed reader on the Mac, has gone completely free as of version 3.1. (See the Wikipedia article for the distinctions between free-as-in-beer vs. free-as-in-speech). There's always been a Lite version of the app, one which limited the feed history to an artificially low number amongst other annoyances. [...]

Posted in Apple, Blogging, Macintosh, Software

Safari AdBlock: 'Bout Time

Posted by Doug on December 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Firefox users have had access to AdBlock Plus for ages, allowing them to cruise the Web virtually ad-free. Well, no longer do they have a monopoly on the goodness, for Safari AdBlock (Safari 3/Leopard-only) has been released. It's an easy install and catches pretty much all ads, at least in my thus-far limited [...]

Posted in Macintosh, Open Source Software

It Is Here, Thus I Shall Not Be

Posted by Doug on October 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Awww yeah. Our copies arrived at work this morning — this is my first official post from a newly-Leopardized Mac Pro. I'm about to give Bootcamp a spin and my Applications folder is near-pristine, so I've lots of work to do.
Onward, upward and Leopard.
W00t!

Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Outright Geekage
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