Return to all things Mac

April 13th, 2008

I became a Unix/C geek back in ~1983; before that, not much mattered, although I do remember by DG Eclipse RDOS days rather fondly. I purchased a Macintosh in 1985 and was fully entrenched in everything Mac both for work (development along with Unix/X) and personal use until about 1999.  After that it was just occasional use as, although I continued with Unix/Linux, I eventually wound up Windows based — primarily to co-exist with various company IT. I picked up a used iMac (lime) in 2003 and loaded up OS X (Panther) and started to enjoy it a little bit, mostly hampered by the underpowered iMac. Can’t say I did much except use it as a browser and iTunes station (without any iPod) for most of the time.

But I finally got fed up with the lame Windows releases and convinced myself that a new iMac was the way to go… So, around Thanksgiving 2007,  I  bought a shiny new 24″ iMac 2.4 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB, 500G….. Ah, life is good once again! Can’t believe how I lasted this long — computer nirvana once again!

Locationbar² :: Firefox Add-ons

November 16th, 2007

Locationbar² :: Firefox Add-ons

Nice little utility which shows the url in the location bar with spaces and colors to emphasize the domainname and decodes the urls for better readability.  Plus mouse-over allows you to select different portions of the URL for moving “up” the page hiearchy.

WinDirStat — disk usage visualization

November 14th, 2007

If you’re looking for a tool to help you analyze your disk usage, then WinDirStat is for you. Does all the right things — sorting, finding, links to explorer, and even visualization. Check it out!

Returns

November 14th, 2007

whoa, that’s just crazy talk…. but it’s true

‘Nuff said

January 31st, 2007

The Windows Vista Ultimate Element