Tag Archives: Mac

You’d have think they would have learned by now…

Posted on January 4, 2010 by ccnet

The Apple “press” (I use quotes because they really aren’t but sure seem like they’d like to be) never ceases to amaze me.  What passes for two stories on The Unofficial Apple Weblog today: A story titled ‘Apple’s “renaissance” is … Continue reading →

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Mac OS 10.6 upgrade day

Posted on August 28, 2009 by ccnet

I’m happy to report the update was much ado about nothing. It arrived today via FedEx and tonight I upgraded my 10.5-equipped Macbook Pro. About an hour after starting the process, with no input required, the upgrade finished. And that … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 9.04 on VMWare Fusion 2.0.4

Posted on May 1, 2009 by ccnet

Happy to say that with minimal fuss I was able to get the newest release of Ubuntu Desktop, 9.04, running on VMWare Fusion on my Mac.   Five easy steps: Follow this blog post for the install (he also links to … Continue reading →

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Evernote Mac client sorely lacking

Posted on October 18, 2008 by ccnet

I’ve been using Evernote for awhile now.  The Windows client is pretty good.  The editor supports ordered/unordered lists, font types, color, etc.   All of the expected things in a rich text editor are there. At the same time the Mac … Continue reading →

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Too bad this doesn’t work on a Windows machine

Posted on September 4, 2008 by ccnet

John Gruber writes that there is a fix for the insanely-slow sync of the iPhone with iTunes.  Unfortunately it only works on the  Mac I actually tried this today before reading the article because I was getting slow syncs between … Continue reading →

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