Maybe someone can explain why AscenderFonts is selling this Microsoft ClearType Font Collection for $299. Because, you see, anyone that buys a copy of Microsoft Office Home Edition 2008 is going to get them as part of the bundle… for $149. (Granted, Ascender’s package provides a five user license and Office Home only gives you [...]
Continue Reading...This is why I don’t like Twitter or, for that matter, most of the social networking fads going on right now (I said most, not all).
Continue Reading...Updating to WordPress 2.5 went easily, except that my gregarious plugin stopped working. A shame, as I liked that one quite a bit and it appears the author doesn’t have time to maintain it.
Anyhow, for those of you that relied on gregarious to provide your digg links, here’s a quick fix: Edit your theme and [...]
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Continue Reading...About a half degree anomaly over a one-year sample means nothing statistically. I’m interested in the 50- and 100- and 500-year trends. My own conclusions from studying them, be they right or wrong (I’ve no idea which, really): Global warming is happening. And, it probably has little or nothing to do with human activity. And, therefore, while we might be able to influence it doing so would be very, very hard…
Continue Reading...We’ve all heard about the promise of going digital, forever after to shun the use of paper. But it seems like a whole industry out there trying to go in the other direction—at least, that’s how I feel every day when I sift through half a dozen advertisements, flyers and other junk mail to find [...]
Continue Reading...I was recently approached by someone asking for advice dealing with a boss that won’t listen to the engineering team, and who doesn’t believe in methodology, testing or quality assurance. Statements such as “QA would just find a lot of bugs and keep us from making release dates” raised. This is a lousy place to [...]
Continue Reading...I agree with everything Wayne MacPhail has to say on the new super-thin Apple Macbook Air. And comparing the new, $1,700 low-power eye-candy laptop to an actually useful and meaningful technology (meaning the XO that Wayne contrasts with the Air) is spot-on.
Let’s face it, the Air is a frivolous computer. It’s too expensive, it’s a [...]
For those of us that have an Airport base station (especially the new one with 802.11/n) there’s a bit of good news if you were hoping to use an attached disk for wireless Time Machine backups: A simple hack will enable the feature. However, I should point out that there is a good reason Apple [...]
Continue Reading...Now that we Mac folk have a bit of competition on the virtual operating system front we’re starting to see good things develop. Competition is always good for the market right?
So it would seem, as VMware ships version 1.1 of Fusion. I was eager to try out the Converter application and migrate my virtual Parallels [...]
Apple is pushing Time Machine as a reason to rush out and buy OS/X 10.5, Leopard. And, after two solid years of development—not to mention the flashy demos and keynotes by Steve Jobs—this must be the end-all-and-be-all of backup solutions, right? Not.
From an enterprise point of view, as Sean points out, it’s not going to [...]
I’ve been looking forward to OS/X Leopard seriously for about three months now. After seeing it in action on our development systems it definitely gets the nod for some beautiful, eye-catching improvements that will make any Windows Vista user jealous. But is it really worth the upgrade cost of $129?
Actually, I’m a bit miffed at [...]
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