Installed iLife ’09 a couple of days ago. I’ve so far just tried iPhoto because that’s what I was curious about. The new Faces and GPS features are great! It makes life (no pun intended) much easier when sorting pictures. Spent quite some time getting all the people recognised in my photos. It’s not foolproof [...]
Sorry all for the long absence but there’s a lot going on in my life at the moment and it doesn’t really lend itself to blogging. But here’s something I thought I could rant a little about…. Apple has introduced new Mac Minis, iMacs, Mac Pros and Airport TimeCapsule’s (and some other smaller stuff). All [...]
I just have to blog about this. VirtualBox has just become awesome. The update 2.1 has added support for VMware images and it SO works! I didn’t think this would be so easy. Just create a new VM and mount the VMware vmdk. Done! For me that was always the critical issue with VirtualBox. At [...]
I’ve done my fair share of amateur photo editing. Most of it done under PhotoShop at the time. After I switched to Macs a couple of years ago I didn’t have PhotoShop anymore. Mostly because it is just too *@%#^&%@ expensive. Adobe PhotoShop Elements…well…just not right if you’re coming from PS. I tried GIMP and [...]
I wish all readers here a H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! May 2009 be a if not prosperous then certainly a joyful year. We will see major issues coming up in the year so it certainly won’t be boring. Will the financial crisis be over in 2009? [...]
Just a gentle reminder that a new version of the truly great Sun virtualisation software’s out. It’s VirtualBox 2.1.0. The ChangeLog is here and there’s lots of important new stuff. 64-bit support on 32-bit guest OSes (not so hot for me) 3D support (getting warmer) Better Windows (who cares?!) and Linux networking support doing away [...]
Today a new “Apple” store opened in Wellington (195 Lambton Quay). It’s called The Bay and you can find it on www.thebaystore.co.nz. It really looks like they wanted to imitate the Apple Stores. I must say for the size they have done a good job. All is in sleek white and black and feels very [...]
Sometimes on trademe or ebay you come across these nice old Macs/iPods/iPhones/iBooks/… and you’d like to know the config and what it can and can’t do. I.e. can you anything with them? Can they run Leopard? Can they attach to my VGA monitor?… Well the answer is simple. There’s a nice Mac (and Windows!!!) proggie [...]
I love the Lifehacker website. Especially their things about best mouse and now best keyboard. And I do agree that the IBM Model M is THE best keyboard out there. We’ve even got one here in the office. I dared the colleague to use it…well…within 5 minutes there were noise complaints galore. And there we [...]