Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Camino 1.1: My Mac OS X Web Browser of Choice

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Since I got my Mac Book Pro last November, I have been extremely disappointed with the stability of FireFox on Intel Macs. The PPC version is quite stable and gives Safari a run for the money. On Intel however, it feels like an alpha-quality product. I have been using Safari, which gets the job done, [...]

True to Form?

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I ran across this image on Digg:

Brilliant!

Bit keeps getting better and better! Apple could probably have a lot of fun with this idea.

Why I won’t get the first MacPhone

Friday, January 5th, 2007

I’m of the belief that if Apple does enter the mobile phone market, it will be releasing a mobile version of the Mac OS and the device will probably carry the MacPhone moniker. We know iPhone name is already taken, plus the whole ā€œiā€ thing is getting tired. The device won’t be just a phone [...]

Java 6 on Mac OS X may Require Leopard

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

I was very happy to see that Sun released a final version of Java 6 yesterday. But what I find very disappointing was that Apple has not updated a Java 6 version for Mac OS X still remains only a developer preview which is based on JDK 1.6.0_b88. If you’ve been following Java 6, you [...]

New Leopard Build Supports Office 2007 Formats - Office:mac coming 6-8 months later

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

The folks over at MacShrine are reporting that Apple has seeded a new build of Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) internally. What really caught my eye was the last statement:
“TextEdit also features support to export and open new Word 2007 documents”
What’s interesting here is that there is no mention of the OpenDocument format supported by the [...]

How to set up a Motorola E815 as Bluetooth Modem under Mac OS X 10.4

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

I have had a Motorola E815 for sometime now, but my older PowerBook didn’t have Bluetooth so I never got to enjoy its capabilities. Just recently, I acquired a brand spankin’ new 17″ MacBook Pro as part of my new job. I knew I could use the phone as a modem, but exactly how to [...]

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 [...]