Miscellaneous Ramblings

Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2010 Archive

Apple's Business Orientation, 10.6 CPU Temperature, HFS+ File Compression in Snow Leopard, and More, 12.07. Also two more options for installing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from an install DVD to a Mac without a DVD-capable drive.
Old Cars and Old Macs Revisited, 11.11. Reflections on classic cars and old Macs.
Google's Self-Driving Cars? Real Auto Enthusiasts Want Manual Control, 10.13. Google's fleet of self-driving cars is an impressive use of technology, but wouldn't driving be even safer if we paid more attention to what we were doing?
Car and Driver and Chrysler Launch Free Txt U L8r App, 10.11. Car and Driver has teamed up with iSpeech and Chrysler to release a free smartphone app that autoreplies to texts and speaks them aloud.
Texting While Driving: A Deadly Epidemic, 09.27. Drunk driving is universally reviled, phoning while driving is just as dangerous, and texting far more dangerous than that.
Opera Issues Resolved, at Least for Intel Macs, 09.24. Good news: Clearing out some old support files got Opera 10.62 working nicely. Bad news: The 10.6 branch is the end of the line for Opera on PowerPC Macs.
Opera 10.62 for Mac: Fast, but Some Bugs Remain, 09.21. Opera is the last major browser still supporting Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, but the latest release has some issues with Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard on Moore's 'Books.
Of Hurricanes and Lightning Storms and Dial-up Internet and Laptops, 09.13. Hurricane Earl meant 48 hours without power or broadband Internet, and 20 hours without phone service meant dial-up wasn't an option either.
MailForge 2: Modern Email Client Designed to Replace Classic Eudora, 08.23. MaiForge has been built from the ground up to work just like the classic version of Eudora, and the latest version is big step toward filling that ambitious goal.
Fraise Text Editor Steps into Smultron's Shoes, 08.10. Smultron was an excellent, free text editor with some database features, but it's no longer being updated. Fraise is based on Smultron, but it's designed for Snow Leopard.
Is the Mac Facing a 'Walled Garden' Future?, 07.19. Apple is doing well, Mac sales are at the best levels ever, yet many are concerned that Apple may turn the Mac into a 'walled garden' like it's done with iOS devices.
Bog-slow: A Return Visit to Dialup Internet, 06.08. With wireless broadband going down when it rains, Charles Moore has no option but to try getting by with dialup access until the problem is resolved.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Increasingly Left Behind by Browser Updates, 05.25. Opera has grown troublesome since version 10.52, and several recent browser versions don't have any PowerPC support at all.
Going Back to Leopard Due to Snow Leopard Bugs, 05.19. Although OS X 10.6 is fast and required by a few apps, several keyboard lockups a day make it impractical. Back to 10.5.
2 Weeks with Snow Leopard: Still a Bumpy Ride, 05.04. Charles Moore hasn't reverted to Mac OS X 10.5, but he is experiencing some problems with 10.6.3.
Why Do Aliens Ignore Us? Because They May Not Exist, 04.27. A recent poll finds that 70% believe in extraterrestrial life, but after 50 years of searching, SETI hasn't found any sign of it.
Charles Moore Finally Installs Snow Leopard, 04.19. Installing, updating, and migrating to Mac OS X 10.6 took hours, and Snow Leopard introduced problems not seen in Leopard.
How Ad Blocking Hurts Your Favorite Websites, 03.18. Ad income keeps the Web free. Blocking online ads hurts your favorite websites.
Shiira Browser Is Lightning Fast, 03.08. "...I'm finding myself not in any hurry to stop using Shiira 2.3 and go back to Safari 4 as my WebKit browser pick."
Handshoe Mouse a Good Ergonomic Option, 03.02. "If you suffer from mousing pain, they should prove well worth the price."
Personality Predicts Your Place Along the Mac-PC Divide, 02.23. There is a fair bit of truth behind the caricatures of Mac and PC users, although there are exceptions as well.
diNovo Mac Edition a Top Quality Keyboard, 02.15. Logitech's diNovo cordless keyboard offers a standard Macintosh layout in a premium package.
Do We Really Need Another Mac Email Client?, 02.08. Mac users have a host of free and low-cost email clients to choose from. Does Brent Simmons' 'Letters' project make any sense at all?
Waiting for WindowShade X before Going Snow Leopard, 02.01. For anyone used to windowshading, nothing else will do. Unsanity is working on WindowShade X for Mac OS X 10.6.
Free Glide OS: Computing in the Cloud, 01.25. Hands on with Glide OS, a free cloud-based operating system and apps that you access from your browser.
Linux, Freedom, and Frontiers, 01.19. Personal freedoms are under attack in the real world and online, and Linux will help save the world.
10 Reasons Macs Don't Suck, 01.11. A longtime Mac user's response to a "sophomoric anti-Mac diatribe" recently published by collegetimes.us.
In Defense of 'Obsolete' Technologies, 01.05. Some technologists are too quick to label stable, proven, functional technologies obsolete before their time.
Opera 10.5 Preview Better and Faster than Ever, 01.04. Opera 10.1 is already a wonderful browser, but version 10.5 for Mac (Intel only) is now written in Cocoa and the JavaScript engine is the fastest yet.
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