I got a notification from my MacBook Pro today that an EFI update was available. I hadn’t booted since last Friday, so that explains the lag in notification since this firmware update was actually released about 5 days ago. Anyway, Apple says the update eliminates Optical Drive noise when system boots or wake up from [...]
I don’t know if all of you out there have been following the technology scene lately, but there is a holy trinity of operating system releases going on. Apple released the most recent version of OSX, 10.6, code named Snow Leopard in late August. Microsoft is set to release Windows 7, following the still born [...]
An 8 minute clip on how to use Google Wave. I especially like the live auto-translator robot!
For those of you in the know about the meaning behind “Without Wax” in the English language, here is an excellent review of the newest version of Mac OSX, Snow Leopard. OS 10.6 offers much in the way of increased speed and efficiency, and not so much in the way of bloat or unnecessary features. [...]
Apple must have decided on an early Christmas for all of us. While originally slated to release around the end of September, Apple has just announced (yes its official and on the main Apple website) that the much anticipated Snow Leopard will be available this Friday, August 28. I have been waiting for this for [...]
So I happened upon some interesting information from a company called Chitika, who tracks search engine stats. Their headline “Chitika Study: Open Source Users Love Google, Hate Microsoft” is telling. Now I do not find that surprising at all considering Google is a MAJOR backer of open source projects or initiatives, but it was cool [...]
This is a quick blurb for those of you out there that use VMware fusion on your Mac. I have read that the same applies to Parallels, but your mileage may vary. At any rate, those that are familiar with virtual machines know that the virtual disk image files (vmdk, vhd, vdi, etc.) are single [...]
Following on the heels of Microsoft’s recent announcement of an October 22, 2009 release of Windows 7, Apple today indicated that the next release of ever popular OSX will be available in September. OSX 10.6, known as Snowleopard is an evolutionary build upon the Leopard named 10.5 release. Moreover, Apple will sell the release for [...]
Unlike the author of the original article, I AM a fan of Ubuntu and Linux, and I found the post pretty interesting. One small but great part of the Linux world is GUI (theme) customization. Overall customization is huge, but theming is often overlooked as nice but not necessary.
I happen to love the dark themes [...]
Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, and I know many of you are eager to try it out. However, if your Mac has an ATI graphics card (MacPro or iMac), and you rely on VMware Fusion’s 3D Acceleration feature to run either Windows games or other Windows 3D applications in your virtual machines, [...]
