Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

RapidMetaBlog – Another dashboard posting solution for WordPress

After reviewing WordPressDash, I decided to tae a look and see if they’re any other OS X Dashboard posting solutions, and I found this one, RapidMetaBlog.
Pros and cons: Basically, the same as WordPressDash, no image posting is the main issue, but I’m not really sure that it’s possible though the WordPress XML-RPC interface. A nice [...]


WordPressDash – Post to WordPress from the OS X Dashboard

I just stumbled upon this cool dashboard widget for posting to WordPress directly from the Mac OS X dashboard. How convenient. It’s almost perfect, The interface is nice and clean, and you can select the post categories, but it still has 2 minor issues to be solved before i’d call it a perfect solution;
1. Image [...]


Thank You Apple (And Sony)

After 2 1/2 years, my iBook’s battery is pretty much dead. From lasting up 2 6 hours! (personally tested) it now lasts about 35 minutes. I was going to buy a new battery, or maybe a whole new laptop, but then I read about Apple’s battery recall My battery’s serial number matched, so it was [...]

  • August 27, 2006
  • | Category: Mac
  • | Comments: 3

Windows Vista – First of a Kind Features

We all know where Micro$oft gets their inspiration from, but this guy demonstrated it in a really cool way. The voice in this video is Bill Gates demonstrating Vista, the video is… well, take a look for yourselves.

  • August 10, 2006
  • | Category: Mac
  • | Comments: 5

Boot Camp

Windows XP. It’s evil, but for now it’s still a necessity, an evil necessity. Testing sites in Internet Explorer, connecting to certain windows-only VPN’s, Gaming, there’s lots of reasons for a mac user to keep a PC in the closet. Now you can have Windows XP on your Intel Mac, with Apple’s Boot Camp [...]

  • April 5, 2006
  • | Category: Mac
  • | Comments: 2

The Macintels are here

As all of you probably know by now (at least all of you that care), Steve Jobs presented 2 new Intel based macs in his keynoke in the MacWorld SF expo: the iMac and the MacBook Pro.
Although better then the PPC versions, the specs aren’t as great as I expected, and benchmarks were used to [...]

  • January 11, 2006
  • | Category: Mac
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Safari now passes acid 2 test!!!

if you’re using a mac with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) download the latest system update, and click here in Safari and take the test. what do you see? it’s a smiley face! don’t all browsers show that cute face? well, not really… click here to see pictures off how other browsers (and older versions of [...]

  • November 2, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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Safari 2.0.1 – updated WebKit or not?

So Apple released an update for Safari yesterday, version 2.0.1 but my question I can’t seem to find an answer to is, did they update WebKit? (Safari’s engine) Apple’s update information states: “Safari version 2.0.1 for Mac OS X Tiger improves website compatibility, application stability and support for 3rd party web applications.” “improving website compatibility” [...]

  • September 2, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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New WebKit Build Passes Acid2 test

A new build of WebKit, Apple’s open source HTML engine, used for the Safari Browser, Passes The Second Acid Test with score of 100%. the Acid Test is a test page by WaSP using complex HTML and CSS to test if a browser is standards compliant, if the browser passes, it will show a smiley [...]

  • July 15, 2005
  • | Category: Mac, Web
  • | Comments: 1

Sending HTML Mail in Mail.app

There is no simple way to send HTML mail from within mail.app, if you set as plain text and type in the HTML, it sends it as text, displaying the tags. if you attach a HTML file, it sends as attachment (I tested it, hoping it would display inline, just like image attachments). but [...]

  • June 28, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
  • | Comments: 0

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