August 22, 2008 at 5:43 am
· Filed under Leopard, Mac OS X, iPhone
Hey Brendan,
Am I right in believing that one of the features of Leopard is that I can run Windows on my Mac. I would love to be able to sync up my Blackberry with my Mac. Could I run windows on it, and sync it up that way?
In a perfect world I’d have an iPhone, unfortunately AT&T does not have a North American plan (as Verizon does) and if I switch then I have to pay 20 cents a minute to Canada (about 25% of my calls) and 35 cents a minute roaming when I am there (about 5-6 times a year). Not cool.
Yes, Sure thing, Leopard Users are able to Install Windows using a Technology called “Boot Camp”, just type that into spotlight and watch how straightforward the Mac makes it for you.
A few notes of caution though:
Using Boot Camp requires you to dedicate a portion of your Hard Drive space to it, you can choose that to be 5gb or bigger, but once you decide on it, it’s tricky to change, removing it entirely is really easy though, changing it, that’s the hard part.
Second, A piece of software called Parallels, $79, from Amazon or Apple, is my preferred method of running Windows, it runs on your mac desktop, in a window or Full screen, and you can drag and drop files between the Mac and Windows easily. The space taken up by Windows in this case can grow and shrink based on your needs, and, if you’re ever running low on disk space, or using a borrowed Mac, you can put the windows (parallels) file onto an external Hard drive and run it off of there. Also, your Time Machine backup will back up this Windows Image, whereas, under boot camp it won’t (remember Time Machine won’t give Windows the same nifty features, but it will backup the entire Windows ‘Installation’ hourly.
Hope this all helps, I sympathize with the difficulty of getting an iPhone, it’s a shame AT&T doesn’t offer something for folks who travel a lot between US and Canada, there’s lots of y’all I think!
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August 4, 2008 at 12:17 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
The key points of the software he reviews here, are features that the mail application, that comes built into your Mac already does in wonderful ways. Xobni, is an add on for that application “Outlook” that is default on Windows XP and severely frustrating for many users, and so if one used Outlook, one may use Xobni. Interestingly, most clients of mine have long ago moved to Gmail(if they’re Windows Users or Apple Mail) since both of these provide really fast indexing, sorting, calendar and meeting integration and more.
Mail, the humble program down in the Dock, that looks like a samp has super powers.
It stores unlimited archives of Mail back to years and years ago.
It Indexes emails by Date, Subject, sender, Content and more.
It has data detectors that let you create events from dates mentioned in emails.
It detects addresses in emails and lets you Map them with a single click.
It associates the sender with your Address Book entry for them so you can see their picture, Birthday, Spouse and any Notes you need.
It allows you to create Notes or To-Do items from lines, words or any content inside an email, these To-Do’s go straight into iCal to give you reminders.
This is just the highlights of Mail that I find useful, for more on Mail, there’s Apple’s Page:
and a wonderful Blog:
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August 4, 2008 at 11:58 am
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I have a question for you, this weekend I’m purchasing a Mac Notebook and with it comes a free 8 gig iTouch. I have been doing a little research and am a little confused. Does the iTouch have calendar capabilities and is it able to sync with the notebook? I’ve read blogs with people saying it does and others saying it doesn’t. Looking for a little clarification.
The iPod touch is damn cool and does almost everything the iPhone does, bar taking photos and making calls, iCal absolutely syncs with the mac, just like the iphone does, and if you use “mobileme” then it syncs through the air, which is nice.
Notebook never synced (sank?) but thanks to the app store, there are a slew of alternatives for notes, like evernote, or jott, and they sync with the internet or “cloud” and your mac can then sync with the cloud too.
I had thought the mac comes with a 16gb iPod touch, isn’t the rebate good for $299???
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August 3, 2008 at 11:23 am
· Filed under Apple, Mac OS X
Does your screensaver kick in while you’re watching a video on hulu.com? Or your screen go asleep while you’re watching twitlive.tv or the AuburnCom office camera?
Get Caffeine, a tiny Mac only program that puts an icon in your menu bar, before you click play on the big lebowski, tap this and it’ll keep your Mac awake for you, no visits to the system pref pane for you!
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