Archive for March, 2007
Experience From Switching Back
by Aditya
A couple of months back, I wrote about my experiences as a switcher (see shuffle November 2006). Due to reasons, completely involuntary I might add, I had to use Windows again for a month. So how does it feel to switch back? Here are my main conclusions.
You start pointing your mouse to the corners [...]
Say XAMPP Five Times Fast if You Can
by Magnus Nystedt
Have you ever wanted to try out some web application programming? Perhaps writing your own blog engine, or just publish your company’s employee list to a web page?
There are obviously many options for you and your Mac comes with some of them built in. Mac OS X comes ready to go with Apache, [...]
Editorial – Windows Vista Arrives
by Magnus Nystedt
Why write about Windows Vista in the newsletter of an Apple User Group, you ask. It’s quite simple, our world is dominated by Microsoft, currently with Windows XP, and in the future by Vista. It’s something that we have to live with. We have to use Vista-running computers at some point and our [...]
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Music
It doesn’t happen very often that we hear directly from Steve Jobs, in fact I can’t remember it ever happening like this, but on February 6 2007 he has posted an open letter entitled “Thoughts on music” (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/). It’s written following the increasingly heated debate over DRM’s “to be or not to be”. Countries like [...]
RSS 101
The explosion in new services on the internet we’ve seen over the last few years, including blogs, podcasts, and more, often owe their existence to varying degrees to something called RSS. RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, is a technology which allows users to subscribe to digital content, and receive notice and updates whenever something new [...]
What’s New in Windows Vista?
Microsoft has with lots of fanfare launched Windows Vista and we thought we’d take a quick look at it. After five years of development and presumably billions of dollars spent it’s finally here and we just want to tell you what is new, and what we think you should know about the new Windows. This [...]
Review: Belkin TuneBase FM for iPod
If you want to use your iPod in your car to play music through your car stereo but you don’t have anywhere to plug in your iPod or a cassette player, this is the thing for you. The Belkin TuneBase FM for iPod is an iPod FM transmitter, iPod charger, and iPod holder all rolled [...]
AntiRSI Forces you to Take a Break
RSI, or Repetitive Strain Injury, is something that is a danger to all of us spending so much time working with computers. RSI can set in when you work with the same motions for a long time, like typing on a keyboard, or using a mouse. One way of minimizing the risk of having RSI [...]
Review: CSSEdit 2
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a way to determine how web pages look and feel, which is used by many web sites on the internet. CSS is fundamentally text files, much like HTML, so a web developer can write CSS-code themselves, or use a visual editor like CSSEdit.
Highly specialized
CSSEdit is a very specialized program. It [...]
Review: XType
Some time ago my nine year old daughter asked me to teach her the proper way of typing fast on a computer keyboard. I showed her how to position her fingers on the keyboard and showed her some exercises. I didn’t have enough time to sit and teach all day; I needed that old typing [...]
Apple Seed
The Catch-22 of all passwords is the fact that you use the same password for everything, yet it is a pain to remember all 16 of your various user names and passwords for different sites and Internet accounts. Apple Inc. has provided us, as end users, with a way of managing all of our [...]
Securing Mac OS X For the Casual User
Bill Gates said to Steve Levy in a Newsweek interview in February 2007, shortly after the debut of Microsoft Windows Vista, that “nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once [...]
Experience From Switching Back
A couple of months back, I wrote about my experiences as a switcher (see shuffle November 2006). Due to reasons, completely involuntary I might add, I had to use Windows again for a month. So how does it feel to switch back? Here are my main conclusions.
* You start pointing your mouse to the corners [...]
Find Your Character
Sometimes you need to find a particular character and don’t know how to type it with the keyboard. Apple has provided a convenient help in Mac OS X. It’s called the Character Palette and it shows you all the scripts you have installed and every character within each script. You can show it from witin [...]
Mac versus PC debate revisited
Recently an EmiratesMac user with the username Mashakos posted a controversial question on the site (http://www.emiratesmac.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2279) with the title “Macs suck!”. He said “I’m new here and want to see what this Mac phenomenon is all about” and continued by saying “a lot of casual computer users really like the Mac, but it seems to [...]
