Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2010 Archive
- Apple's Business Orientation, 10.6
CPU Temperature, HFS+ File Compression in Snow Leopard, and More,
12.07. Also two more options for installing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from an
install DVD to a Mac without a DVD-capable drive.
- Old Cars and Old
Macs Revisited, 11.11. Reflections on classic cars and old
Macs.
- Google's
Self-Driving Cars? Real Auto Enthusiasts Want Manual Control,
10.13. Google's fleet of self-driving cars is an impressive use of
technology, but wouldn't driving be even safer if we paid more
attention to what we were doing?
- Car and Driver and Chrysler
Launch Free Txt U L8r App, 10.11. Car and Driver has teamed up with
iSpeech and Chrysler to release a free smartphone app that autoreplies
to texts and speaks them aloud.
- Texting While
Driving: A Deadly Epidemic, 09.27. Drunk driving is universally
reviled, phoning while driving is just as dangerous, and texting far
more dangerous than that.
- Opera Issues
Resolved, at Least for Intel Macs, 09.24. Good news: Clearing out
some old support files got Opera 10.62 working nicely. Bad news: The
10.6 branch is the end of the line for Opera on PowerPC Macs.
- Opera 10.62 for Mac:
Fast, but Some Bugs Remain, 09.21. Opera is the last major browser
still supporting Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, but the latest release has some
issues with Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard on Moore's 'Books.
- Of Hurricanes and
Lightning Storms and Dial-up Internet and Laptops, 09.13. Hurricane
Earl meant 48 hours without power or broadband Internet, and 20 hours
without phone service meant dial-up wasn't an option either.
- MailForge 2:
Modern Email Client Designed to Replace Classic Eudora, 08.23.
MaiForge has been built from the ground up to work just like the
classic version of Eudora, and the latest version is big step toward
filling that ambitious goal.
- Fraise Text Editor
Steps into Smultron's Shoes, 08.10. Smultron was an excellent, free
text editor with some database features, but it's no longer being
updated. Fraise is based on Smultron, but it's designed for Snow
Leopard.
- Is the Mac Facing a
'Walled Garden' Future?, 07.19. Apple is doing well, Mac sales are
at the best levels ever, yet many are concerned that Apple may turn the
Mac into a 'walled garden' like it's done with iOS devices.
- Bog-slow: A Return Visit
to Dialup Internet, 06.08. With wireless broadband going down when
it rains, Charles Moore has no option but to try getting by with dialup
access until the problem is resolved.
- Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger Increasingly Left Behind by Browser Updates, 05.25. Opera has
grown troublesome since version 10.52, and several recent browser
versions don't have any PowerPC support at all.
- Going Back to Leopard Due
to Snow Leopard Bugs, 05.19. Although OS X 10.6 is fast and
required by a few apps, several keyboard lockups a day make it
impractical. Back to 10.5.
- 2 Weeks with Snow
Leopard: Still a Bumpy Ride, 05.04. Charles Moore hasn't reverted
to Mac OS X 10.5, but he is experiencing some problems with
10.6.3.
- Why Do Aliens Ignore
Us? Because They May Not Exist, 04.27. A recent poll finds that 70%
believe in extraterrestrial life, but after 50 years of searching, SETI
hasn't found any sign of it.
- Charles Moore Finally
Installs Snow Leopard, 04.19. Installing, updating, and migrating
to Mac OS X 10.6 took hours, and Snow Leopard introduced problems not
seen in Leopard.
- How Ad Blocking Hurts Your
Favorite Websites, 03.18. Ad income keeps the Web free. Blocking
online ads hurts your favorite websites.
- Shiira Browser Is
Lightning Fast, 03.08. "...I'm finding myself not in any hurry to
stop using Shiira 2.3 and go back to Safari 4 as my WebKit browser
pick."
- Handshoe Mouse a
Good Ergonomic Option, 03.02. "If you suffer from mousing pain,
they should prove well worth the price."
- Personality Predicts
Your Place Along the Mac-PC Divide, 02.23. There is a fair bit of
truth behind the caricatures of Mac and PC users, although there are
exceptions as well.
- diNovo Mac Edition a
Top Quality Keyboard, 02.15. Logitech's diNovo cordless keyboard
offers a standard Macintosh layout in a premium package.
- Do We Really Need
Another Mac Email Client?, 02.08. Mac users have a host of free and
low-cost email clients to choose from. Does Brent Simmons' 'Letters'
project make any sense at all?
- Waiting for
WindowShade X before Going Snow Leopard, 02.01. For anyone used to
windowshading, nothing else will do. Unsanity is working on WindowShade
X for Mac OS X 10.6.
- Free Glide OS:
Computing in the Cloud, 01.25. Hands on with Glide OS, a free
cloud-based operating system and apps that you access from your
browser.
- Linux, Freedom, and
Frontiers, 01.19. Personal freedoms are under attack in the real
world and online, and Linux will help save the world.
- 10 Reasons Macs Don't
Suck, 01.11. A longtime Mac user's response to a "sophomoric
anti-Mac diatribe" recently published by collegetimes.us.
- In Defense of
'Obsolete' Technologies, 01.05. Some technologists are too quick to
label stable, proven, functional technologies obsolete before their
time.
- Opera 10.5 Preview
Better and Faster than Ever, 01.04. Opera 10.1 is already a
wonderful browser, but version 10.5 for Mac (Intel only) is now written
in Cocoa and the JavaScript engine is the fastest yet.
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