Category: Mac

  • My move from OS X to Vista – Day 5

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    I love having lots of screen space. My MacBook Pro has a maximum screen resolution of 1440×900, which, while not great, is better than the 1280×800 maximum on the Vaio which Microsoft sent me. To get the most out of these screen resolutions on the Mac, I position the Dock on the right hand side…

  • My move from OS X to Vista – Day 1

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    This is my first blog post from within Vista – I’ll try to put up a post a day on the move across. Of course I am also moving from a Mac to a Sony Vaio so I will also be referencing that move in these posts. The first thing I had to do when…

  • Switching from OS X to Vista (kinda)

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    Microsoft gave me a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista Ultimate and Office Ultimate installed to try out. I have been toying with the Vaio but not using it heavily. To be fair to Microsoft, I’m going to try to switch as much as possible of my work from my MacBook Pro to the Vaio to…

  • Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition running on my Mac!

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    Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is Microsoft’s free version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio Lite, if you will). I installed it on my Mac to see if it would install and run ok – as you can see above, it runs fine! I now have the lite/free versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server…

  • Apple capitalising on Microsoft's failings

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    AppleInsider is reporting that Apple’s sales of Mac computers in January is up over 100% on January ’06. The article goes on to say: sales of Mac notebooks grew 194 percent year-over-year in January with a rising ASP that drove 221 percent revenue growth in the segment. “January was the third-largest revenue month for Mac…

  • Time to stop using Safari?

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    Oh dear, Dr. Macenstein is reporting that Safari is a resource hog – using up to 76% more resources than Firefox. According to Dr. Macenstien Safari grabs resources from the system even when idle in the background: It seems to me that a background application, especially one that should not really be doing anything all…

  • New version of Parallels too popular!

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    I have written about Parallels previously and how it makes running Windows applications on a Mac seamless. Arstechnica are reporting that the latest version of Parallels is now available to download. For anyone who already owns a copy of Parallels, this is a free upgrade (wohoo!). Demand for the upgrade appears to be extreme though,…

  • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on a Mac!

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    Having read Rob’s post about the release of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition sp2 (could they not have come up with a snappier name – think mySQL, for example!), I decided to go ahead and see if it would install and run on my Mac! The install was uneventful and I documented it as a…