Contemplating a new MacBook Air
When the MacBook Air first came out, in early 2008, I thought it was totally cool, but I figured it...
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Forthcoming new MacBook Pros?
A couple of friends have recently mentioned wanting to buy a new Mac laptop, so I wanted to post again...
Virtual Personal Assistant
I had previously seen Apple's visionary 1987 concept video of the Knowledge Navigator (6 minutes). That was twenty-three years ago,...
A few iPad notes
People keep asking me if I've gotten my iPad yet. But in fact, I don't really have much interest in...
Faces in iPhoto
A while back, I was delighted to find out about the face-detection/recognition system in Picasa Web Albums. It's really good...
Six free Mac apps
There's this company/organization called MacHeist that, every so often, provides a bundle of half a dozen commercial Mac applications for...
Disable guest accounts in Snow Leopard!
It appears that some users of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard are losing all of their data after logging...
How to find MySQL in Snow Leopard
Just discovered that in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the directory /usr/local/mysql no longer exists. Which means that if...
Keyboard shortcuts for AppleScripts in Snow Leopard?
In Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the keyboard-shortcuts system has been enhanced in various ways. But now I can't...
AppleScript autoresponder in Snow Leopard’s Mail.app
Last year, I tried to create an autoresponder for Apple's Mail.app, but ran into problems. Now, in Snow Leopard, I've...
Imaginary places and computer names
My theme for computer names has always been imaginary places. At some point I'll do a more detailed writeup of...
“Genius” vs. simple problem
Stopped by Apple Store this morning to get MacBook fan repaired or replaced. Was told that it would take them...