Archive for November, 2006

A Bigger Question: Why Doesn’t Apple Support OpenOffice Document Formats?

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

I ran across a post over at An Outlet which questions why Apple does not support OpenOffice. For me, the more important question is: Why doesn’t Apple support the OpenOffice document formats? I have written about this in a prior post about how the Mac platform currently has little or no support for the OpenDocument [...]

The best PlayStation 3 Deal, ever!

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Why on earth would you set the “Buy It Now” of one this years hottest items to 99¢? This goofy bastard did just that:
The best part is, someone did buy it for 99¢ And then there’s this fella. I have no idea what the relevance of the images are in relation to the PS3, [...]

My Fantasy Mac: The Mac mini Pro

Friday, November 24th, 2006

We have had a Mac mini for over a year now and while it served us well, it is rather underpowered. Nah, underpowered is being too nice, the 1.4Ghz G4 model is slow as shit. The main culprit, in my opinion, is the 32MB ATI card that is in the PPC-based Mac mini. The slow [...]

F3: Java’s Upcoming Killer RIA Scripting Language

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

You could describe F3 as being kind of like Flash meets Java. I ran across a link to Chris Oliver’s Blog, from a post on OS News, where he talks about an upcoming project from Sun called F3. The latest demos Chris has up are quite impressive. There is also mention to a server component [...]