My wife just called from work. She was having trouble installing a program. Usually, you just double-click the .dmg file and drag the mounted image to the Applications folder or click through the installer wizard. For some reason, this program (some kind of add-on to Adobe Flash) didn’t allow her to install the program, claiming […]
Category Archives: Apple and Mac OS X
Macs are computers, not magic (part 2)
Last night my wife had a meeting with a bunch of other designers for a small volunteer publication. All had Macs, of course. Two had Macbook Pros (my wife is still on a G4 Powerbook) and were commiserating about the overheating and noise issues (some weird whirring every now and then). They weren’t unhappy. They […]
The price of apples
Recently, both my brother and I had occasion to visit our parents’ home briefly for a family event. He decided he needed to have some apples while there, so he bought a box of fifteen fuji apples from Costco because “it was the best value.” Well, it may have been the best value per apple, […]
Migration woes from Windows to Mac
Ah, the irony. Mac, supposedly easy to switch to (unlike desktop Linux–supposedly not easy to switch to), can’t run Internet Explorer, as far as I can tell. My mother-in-law has a website she has to use (it’s work-related) that works in only IE, and even User Agent Switcher can’t get around it. Yes, yes, yes, […]
Macs are just computers, not magic
Hey, I love a good Mac just as much as the next person. Unlike some Linux users out there, I actually appreciate and love the look of Aqua (hell, even Brushed Metal). The animation in OS X is slick. Dashboard is cooler than Superkaramba or gDesklets. And there’s even a *nix-like terminal available and something […]
Mac Zealots, Linux Zealots, and Windows Zealots
Mac Zealots For a while, I read with interest a site called X vs. XP. After a while, though, I got sick of all the zealotry, particularly on the part of Mac users. Now I understand that people like their OSes—that’s generally why they use them. What bothers me most is that some Mac fanatics […]
Mac v. Windows: The Sequel
This is an excerpt from an email I wrote recently to a friend who is considering buying a computer but isn’t sure 1. whether to get a desktop or a laptop and 2. whether to get a Mac or a PC. Believe it or not, _______—if you get a laptop, Apple may be your best […]
Mac OS X v. Windows XP
This is in response to Dan Pouliot’s webpage on Mac OS X versus Windows XP. “Minimize Bias” My Ass The funny thing is that Pouliot spends a considerable amount of time explaining what bias is and how he tries to limit his bias and avoid biased techniques (such as overemphasizing the faults of one system […]