Archive for the 'mac' Tag

I’ve been using my MacBook Pro at home with a Windows keyboard for a while now. It’s been OK, although slightly annoying that the Cmd and Alt keys are reversed (which you can switch over, but that also reverses them on the Apple keyboard I use at work…).

More recently I’ve had one irritating problem though, [...]

So, Apple have previewed Mac OSX Leopard. I can’t say I was blown away by the WWDC keynote, but everything there was interesting enough: The implementation of virtual desktop is gorgeous, iChat 4 looks very cool (although I continue to dislike the chat bubbles) and Time Machine might just bring backups to all (if Apple [...]

Once regarded as the height of classy UI, it does seem that pinstripes are falling out of fashion and favour faster than a lonely Essex girl.

Indeed, over the life of Mac OSX and since the replacement of the pinstriped iMacs many years ago, the decorative pinstripe backgrounds on toolbars and menus have slowly and subtly [...]

As summer stretches on I’ve increasingly found that there’s just no way I’ll cope with using my PC as a full-time machine again. The Mac experience is just too beautiful and working on my iBook is dancing through poppy fields compared to wading through Windows treacle.

That said, this luxurious level of comfort comes in no [...]

Go go lazyweb!

Here’s the deal: I usually use my PC to listen to music but having just moved back home, there’s no room to set it up. Therefore I’ve instead copied a small subset of that music onto my iBook and will be using that instead for the next few months – iPod syncing et [...]