Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the iPod mini gets a discount at Amazon. Did I mention my favorite color is silver?
These aren’t refurbs or third-party deals, and its the best price I’ve seen for a new iPod. Enjoy!
Note: if it comes up as $249, look on the right side under “More Buying [...]
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There were a lot of bug fixes in Firefox’s 1.0 release. Unfortunately, the profile manager didn’t come through unscathed. I bypassed the profile manager’s buggy performance via the terminal.
Mozilla documentation tells you to launch the profile manager using this path that dives in the Firefox package: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox - ProfileManager . While this works (mostly) [...]
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Google Search Bar is coming to the best OS on the planet, which got me thinking about Mac support. As a reviewer these many MacMerc years (3?) I have noticed one thing about companies that support Mac in addition to PC’s: they are doing well.
Support of additional operating systems is an indication of R&D [...]
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Sometimes it only requires a little nudge to make a needed switch. After palm sync miserably failed with Entourage, keychain-related errors was all it took for me to dump my PIM of 3 years. It was time too: my contacts are in vCard and my calendar in iCal (via Mozilla Calendar).
Enter Mozilla Thunderbird. Like Firefox, [...]
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Ah, first loves. Remember Cyberdog, Apple’s modular OpenDoc web-swiss army knife? It was great - you could activate modules like chat and mail for more functionality or leave things be and run sleek and fast.
Well, Cyberdog my be long gone, but the idea lives on. Where? Firefox. The Mozilla browser is lean and fast - [...]
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The what? Exactly. After years of genuine service, I’m moving my calendaring and contacts from my Visor Prism to my T610. The last straw had nothing to do with the device - the Visor still works perfectly and I’ll continue using it for office docs.
It was the syncing that killed it. First Entourage - which [...]
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So, Roxio has opted to sell off its Toast and Easy CD Creator lines to Sonic Solutions to concentrate on online music. What’s the matter, don’t like money? Well, according to their financial statements, I guess not.
But then again, you can’t get into online music without taking a financial hit, right? Unless you’re Apple. What’s [...]
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Linux is the first OS people associate with free, Open Source software. Of course, you know I spend a lot of time promoting free software for the Mac, here’s an interesting article on Open Source playing right in Bill’s backyard: Freeware for Windws.
Its worth noting that many Open Source’s original aim was to make [...]
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Follow closely on this one: Last night MacUpdated listed a free version of MacGimp 2.0 until the file was pulled from SourceForge. Now the “more info” link points to OpenOSX who’d like to sell you MacGimp for $25+ and has been shamelessly bamboozled by MacGimp.org who wants you to buy it for $80.
See what [...]
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Ahh, blue sky through the skylight, the brushed metal walls and a heap of Macs. A visit to San Francisco wouldn’t be complete without a pilgrimage to the Apple Store.
We’re going to have a record-breaking high temperature here, and the iPod is still the hottest thing in town. You can’t walk three blocks here [...]
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