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How to Easily Resize Images in Mac OS X

By on March 19, 2011 in Technology

Just to be clear, I feel super lame typing this tip up because it has had me stumped for a while and I never spent much time trying to figure it out. Ultimately I found myself typing “How to easily resize images on Mac” into Google more times than I am proud of. Well, I [...]

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Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

By on February 16, 2009 in Technology

Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

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VitualBox 2.1.2 Released

By on January 27, 2009 in Technology

You might have noticed that VirtualBox 2.1.2 has been released into the wild. While there is a laundry list of changes, a few performance and stability enhancements for Mac OS X were on the top of want my list. While Parallels and VMWare offer commercial solutions, Sun backed VirtualBox offers many similar features for free. [...]

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Microsoft Will Never Understand Usability – Vista Device Driver Security Example

By on November 17, 2008 in Technology

We took our first look at Microsoft’s inbility to create something genuinely useful and a minature review of Vista when we evaluated Windows Vista Backup at the beginning of the year. The premise of that article being that by evaluating a single program, and all the usability/functionality flaws it had, you got an impression of [...]

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Barack Obama is a BlackBerry Mac User

By on November 13, 2008 in Life & World, Technology

Thanks to Laurence Hartje for sending this in, looks like Barack Obama is an iChat-loving, Mac-using, BlackBerry-addicted president elect. This puts my mind at rest a bit more knowing that our president-to-be understands and utilizes technology to get work done, as opposed to still being impressed with Fire and Water… not that they aren’t cool, [...]

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New Releases for the Week of 9/14 – 9/20

By on September 16, 2008 in Video Games

Xbox 360 Armored Core: For Answer (Sep 16) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Sep 16) Battle Fantasia (Sep 16) Pure (Sep 16) Rock Band 2 (Sep 14) PC LaTale (Sep 18) Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (Sep 18) Igor (Sep 16) LineRider 2: Unbound (Sep 16) Crysis Warhead (Sep 16) Pure (Sep 16) S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear [...]

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New Releases for The Week of 9/7 – 9/13

By on September 8, 2008 in Video Games

Xbox 360 NHL 2K9 (Sep 8 ) NHL 09 (Sep 9) TNA Impact! (Sep 9) Zoids Assault (Sep 9) PC Spore (Sep 7) Romance of the Three Kingdoms: XI (Sep 9) Righteous Kill: the Game (Sep 12) Nintendo Wii NHL 2K9 (Sep 8 ) Hell’s Kitchen (Sep 9) The Price is Right (Sep 9) NintendoDS [...]

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Mac Air vs ThinkPad X300

By on April 30, 2008 in Humor & Fun

You saw the envelope-stuffing ad from Apple right? “Na na naaa na na, na na naaa na na…” you know, the one that makes you feel like a douce-bag for owning a laptop that has a DVD drive in it? Yep, that’s the one. Brian Fernandes sent along a great mock video that gives a [...]

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Apple's Leopard Requires 867 mhz G4 or Higher

By on September 25, 2007 in Technology

Word on the street is the new Leopard OS (OS X 10.5) will require an 867 mhz G4 or higher to run and will not work on the original 800 mhz G4. Not too much news there for folks that use OS X… or computers… or have an Apple product. For the folks that are [...]

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EA Games on Mac Not Native

By on June 12, 2007 in Technology, Video Games

 OSNews has the scoop that the games EA agreed to co-release for Mac Leopard (OS X 10.5) are actually running on top of Transgaming’s Cider emulator platform. This essentially boils down to a “Mac version of Wine” running the games and not a native port.

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Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) using ZFS

By on June 6, 2007 in Technology

This is very slick news… looks like Sun’s drool-worthy ZFS file-system is going to become the default for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I know very little about ZFS, but the bits I’ve read about it are impressive to say the least… more like “How does it do that?!”. It’s an extremely slick file system, [...]

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OpenOffice Officially for Mac OS X

By on June 5, 2007 in Technology

For the Mac users out there the OpenOffice Mac Team has announced an Alpha release of OpenOffice for the Mac platform finally. They do make it clear that this is an alpha release and will likely crash and corrupt files, so not ready for prime-time yet, but it’s a step in the right direction. For [...]

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1986 Mac vs 2007 AMD Dual Core

By on May 31, 2007 in Technology

This is pretty unbelievable. HubPages has put together this great “productivity comparison” between the original Mac Plus and a brand new AMD Dual Core machine. The idea being not the overall functionality, but the productivity boost doing the most common office-based tasks (Saving, editing, copy-paste, etc.) and seeing the performance differences between the machines. Even [...]

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