November 12, 2007 – 12:52 pm
One of the first things I noticed when playing with Leopard were the new screensaver options. Now that I have seen the tip on other web sites, I figured I am not the only one who thought there were cool.
If you launch the screensaver preferences pane, and choose an iPhoto album, you’ll see [...]
October 31, 2007 – 1:20 am
For the first time in months, I have been able to hit the power button on my G5 and have the machine go to sleep – and stay in sleep. Even with a clean install of Tiger (10.4) on the G5 something would keep waking the computer every few minutes. The power consumption (165 W) [...]
October 30, 2007 – 2:59 pm
I told myself as I prepared for the Leopard install that this time I would try to do an upgrade in lieu of a clean install. All of my data was backed up (side note rsync -Ea –verbose ~/ /Volumes/BackupDrive/26Oct2007/ is the way to go, in my opinion) and I was ready to roll. Head [...]
October 26, 2007 – 11:58 pm
I just noticed that iChat now allows you to log on to several accounts at once – not integrated as with Adium, but definitely a step forward.
October 24, 2007 – 3:57 pm
Playing with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) in my office today. Thoughts as a co-worker and I did a quick overview:
iChat’s interface is much improved with the drawer interface.
Safari’s “Cut to Dashboard” is wicked. I cut the http://weather.com/iPhone to the Dashboard – easy. Ditto recent forum postings block on extremesims.com.
Spaces is very fast.
The Coverflow view [...]