Since 2005 when I switched to GMail, I was living in browser. For better or worse, I learn to put up with issues like speed, lack of hotkeys, UI that is not as responsive as it should be, drag and drop that works most of the time. To be fair, in these five years browsers [...]
Archive for the ‘Mac’ category
Better GMail than GMail
2011/02/11Microsoft Office 2008 vs NeoOffice vs iWorks'08
2009/04/28I was happy user of the iWork Suite 08 since I moved to OS-X. It somehow better matches the way I am thinking and does much better job than Office to get me from idea to acceptable looking rendering of that idea in the form of document, spreadsheet or presentation. In past two month I [...]
The aftermath of mainboard change
2009/03/04In theory, exchanging mainboard on Macbook has no impact because all your data is stored on your harddisk that is untouched. In real life, there are few minor surprises. First, your MAC address of the network card had changed. This is something you will not notice, unless Murphy’s law plays funny game with you, as [...]
How to un-stuck unsuccessful OS-X upgrade
2009/02/07Here is the context: in order to upgrade iLife 08 to iLife’09 (which is very nice, btw), I had to install 10.5.6 upgrade. And according Murphy’s law, one of the 2 GB DIMM’s in my MacBook Pro went bad exactly during the OS-X upgrade process. It had two rather unpleasant consequences: some of the patch [...]
Chapters goes Mac
2008/12/01I have noticed few of this beauties in Kanata Chapters. Nice replacement for the beaten up CRT terminals that used to be around. They somehow looked right and familiar from the distance. Beautiful screen, with touch capability. Nice presentation and user interface. The keyboard with unique personality. And after looking closer, it was very obvious [...]
Fix for 'Sender address is invalid' error on iPhone 3G
2008/11/24I started to have this error about week ago, out of the blue. I was not aware of making any changes, but suddenly could not reply to an email, send new email or even forward existing email in the iPhone default Mail application. I am using GMail account and because other clients on different platforms [...]
How to save local copy of YouTube video
2008/11/20If you want to watch YouTube video on the plane (and Google TechChannel has some amazing collection of videos), here is how to save it to disk, without any tools or third party program, using just your Mac and Safari out of the box. Go to YouTube page and select video you are interested in [...]
Too good to be true ?
2008/09/11If this thing is real, I am buying one. Regardless that I really, really do not need another Mac . Form factor of thin screen of size 9-12 inch, with reasonable subset of touch gestures would be EXACTLY what I need from a internet terminal / reader. Plus the option to tether it with iPhone [...]
Calendar synchronization between iPhone, Google calendars and iCal
2008/09/09Here is my situation: I am using three different Macs (Macbook Pro and two iMacs – one at home and occasionally second one at work) and need to keep the contacts and calendars synchronized at least between two of them (MBP and home iMac). I use iPhone which also has calendar and contacts. And in [...]
Objective C: I really miss namespaces
2008/09/02One feature that I strongly miss from Objective C are namespaces. Inability to avoid name clash between your classes sometimes really stands in your way. I am reading S. Kochan’s book “Programming in Objective C” and in one of the examples he creates the class Point. Unfortunately, there already is struct Point defined in mactypes.h. [...]
