The iMac turns 10 years old today. Is it the product that saved Apple from failing, faltering, or becoming a radically different company than it is today (remember, this is pre iphone/ipod/mac-craze)? The late 90’s were dark days for Apple. My family’s ‘first’ computer was an Apple IIe, (with a whopping 64KB of RAM) followed by my dad’s early 90’s, “Macintosh Classic II“, and ‘Color Classic‘. In my elementary and middle school years, all of our school computers were Apple.Read more
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Macbook Pro updated: LED, 4GB RAM, and Santa Rosa chipset
Apple just updated the MacBook Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and LED backlit displays. Glad I picked one up in April!?! That always happens, but such is the nature of buying the latest and greatest of anything I suppose. I’m curious to see the reviews and stability of the new LED displays. I’m not too shattered; I’m still in the honeymoon stage with this one.Read more
Notebook and Laptop Screens: Matte vs Glossy and Macbook Pro vs Macbook Screens
A crash course in modern Mac notebook screens: With the advent of the Macbook, Apple switched from a matte screen to glossy for the Macbook line. Many users welcome this change, as many people find that the colors are more saturated (blacks more black, etc), contrast may be higher (not always a good thing), and for things like movies and games, the screen may be more vibrant. The downside is that the glossy screens can double as a mirror inRead more
Internet Explorer 7 vs Firefox
So I wanted to see what all the fuss was about regarding Internet Explorer 7. I’ve been a big fan of Firefox, but am always open to trying new things (bit of an adopter wanna-be). I’m not a Microsoft hater or anything, but have really come to love the philosophy behind open source. I couldn’t go back to life without tabs, either. Knowing that IE 7 incorporates many of these new changes, I promptly downloaded it today (on my workRead more
Apple MacBook Pro – Worthy of the "Pro" Designation?
Sure enough, Apple has started rolling out the new Intel powered Macs. I bought a 20″ iMac G5 in July, and decided to sell my laptop in October – finding that, of course, I still have a need for a laptop. My iMac is simply gorgeous and completely satisfies my photographic endeavors – except that I have to work from home. I long for the days of taking my laptop on vacation, to a cafe, back and forth to work,Read more
16 Pixels
16 pixels is not a lot of room. How do you represent yourself in this [ ] amount of space? I spent the better part of an hour learning how to create favicons for work today. What the hell is a favicon? That little icon located next to the web address you just typed in. I figured I’d try out a few for personal use. It’s harder than it looks to represent your site in the space occupied by aRead more