I spent the last two weeks experimenting with Mac OS X on a standard PC. The challenge was a mighty one I must admit. There’s several Hackintosh sites out there with a multitude of descriptions of what to do. The art is to pick the ones that are suitable for you. I started out with [...]
Grab a window so it can be dragged. Simultaneously press <ctrl> + the number of the screen you’d like the window on. Now the screen will fly to your chosen one. Very neat that! The other navigational keys for Spaces work too but are harder to reach with just one hand. So enjoy the new [...]
Ok, here come the first impressions: – Timemachine doesn’t work with network drives!!!! WTF did they think when they did that? It only works with USB/FW drives and other LEOPARD servers! – Eye candy is a little overdone. I hate the menu bar…. + Networking functions seem to be a lot better *hooray* – I [...]
Not quite as smooth as I would have liked it. My MacBook did install Leopard but then would hang on boot. It just showed a blue screen (yep you read that right ) and hung. Now I would have investigated more but I took the suttle hint to do a long overdue clean-up. Luckily I [...]
The wait is on. At the time of writing this it’s still 4 days, 22 hours, 16 minutes and 45 seconds till it arrives. I pre-ordered the Family version (NZ$299 for up to 5 users in one home) days ago. Usually I wait until at least the first two updates are out. They fix the [...]
I’ve received our Family packs of iWork ’08 and iLife ’08 (www.apple.com) today. About 28hrs after ordering it online at Apple. That is about 36hrs after it was introduced to the world. And don’t forget this is New Zealand after all! I must admit I am very impressed. That is a feat you really don’t [...]