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The Rematch

The iBook may have gone down without much of a fight, but reinforcements have arrived.

I’m now running the goodness of Intel Core 2 Duo which opens up a world of opportunities. Boot Camp, Parallels, and built-in iSight to name a few.

Useful Mac App: Disk Inventory X (Free)

Building on the ever-popular heat maps being used absolutely everywhere, it was only natural a visual disk usage utility would make its way to OS X. Load it up, point it to a directory or disk and let it run. When it is complete, it will load up a graphical map of your disk usage […]

Apple Releases Revised Mac Mini - Now with Intel

On Tuesday, after a week of hype and speculation that had the Mac rumor-mill churning, Apple released a revised Mac Mini now with a solo core or duo core Intel chip (depending on price-point). Initially, the main selling point was the low cost of entry into the Mac platform at $499 for the base unit […]

Tuesday Roundup

Space Shuttle Discovery (STS 114) - NASA returns to space with the successful launch of Discovery. Although there are fresh concerns on debris at launch, it is great to see the shuttle back in action, especially after witnessing the community reaction around Cape Canaveral the day they lost Columbia.
24 Ways to Lace Your Shoes - […]

Wednesday Roundup

Slacking on my updates thanks to schedules which aren’t cooperating. Some things to tide you over:
Google Moon - Sattelite imagery of the Apollo landing sites dropped into Google’s mapping app. For a bit of humor zoom in to the highest resolution view.
Tour de France - Lance Armstrong has the tour firmly in his hands. It’ll […]

Upgrade to Tiger, Quarterly Backups: Complete.

iCal popped up my reminder on Thursday that it was once again time for my quarterly backups. Since I hadn’t yet had a chance to upgrade the iMac up to Tiger yet, this weekend seemed like the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
8 hours later, split into a couple 4-hour chunks, I’m […]