'Apple' Category
Having Trouble Accessing Your School’s WiFi?
A lot of people (at least at my school) have had connectivity problems with the latest Leopard and even the most recent Leopard update. This fix has been out there for some time, but some folks may not no about it yet, and it is quite simple.
All you need to do is download the Internet [...]Mac Owners Are Snobs, and Other Phluff
Edward Tufte, the guru of information graphics, uses the term Phluff to describe the effect PowerPoint slides can have on serious analysis. In The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, he describes Phluff as “a preoccupation with format not content, an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.”
Phluff is everywhere, and for the most [...]Hefty Leopard Update Arrives
OS X 10.5.2 is here, and it’s a big one. The list of fixes and enhancements in 10.5.2 is lonnnnng. It took about a half an hour for me to download (via Software Update) and install it on my PowerBook. Note that the installation process seems like it’s not doing anything for a few minutes, [...]
The Perfect Law School Laptop
With the recent introduction of the Modbook, MacBook Air and rumors of a coming refresh to the MacBook lineup bouncing across the ‘Net, I’ve started wondering what the ultimate law school laptop might be like.
It would of course run Mac OS X. It would have to cost less than $2k retail in the United States [...]Apple Mail Spam Accuracy
I’ve been getting a fair amount of spam lately. I have five email accounts that I use regularly, and three of them are linked to from various places online, so I’m hauling in over 200 spam messages a day on average. I use Apple’s Mail application for all five accounts. For the heck of it [...]