My Mac
Intel MacBook with OSX 10.5
Multiple Uses, Multiple Accounts
I use three user accounts to switch between the three different ways I use my MacBook. It’s like having three different computers.
Web surfing and chatting, school and work, and creative/artistic/photography stuff – all three have their own programs on their docks, different configurations, different shortcuts menus, etc.
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Circus Ponies NoteBook is a Swiss Army Knife of sorts. You can use it to manage projects and tasks. You can take notes with it, perform research, and track all the picayune tidbits of necessary information that never seem to get saved anywhere. It’s a very capable application, and its $29.95 student pricing ($49.95 for [...]
I thought we already had April Fool’s Day, but apparently it’s come late this year. AOL Shopping has a Mac v. PC comparison titled, “Mac vs. PC: Which is better?” that seems to have been written by someone with an only passing familiarity with computers.
The article is brief, inaccurate, and unsigned. If I’d [...]
Last week Apple showed how serious it is about making the iPhone a business device. The company rolled out a long-awaited software developer kit, announced the iPhone App Store, showed off slick new iPhone games from third-party developers, talked up first-class support for Microsoft Exchange server, pitched security features, and demoed AOL Instant Messenger for [...]
Hardware
My primary computer is an original MacBook with 2Gb of RAM and an upgraded Seagate 160Gb hard drive (best investment I ever made). I also have a Dell desktop that runs Linux (Debian distribution) that acts as a “backup” (more below), web, and VPN server. I use Mac OS X 99% of the time, but [...]
