Category Archives: mac

Unison and Custom Folder Icons in Windows

One thing I love about my Mac is the ability to set the color of a folder. I’m in the habit of naming folders for various stages of my workflow: CE (copyedit), QC1 (first set of galleys), and QC2 (second … Continue reading

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After the Keynotes

After all the news coming out of Macworld and CES, I find I’m thinking less about MacBooks than I am about dual core Intel chips. Over the past few months, my computers have been taking on very specific roles: My … Continue reading

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The Sync Solution that I Like

I’m increasingly switching between my Mac and PC these days, and I like to keep everything in sync. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good solution, so I’m writing it down in case I do what I did … Continue reading

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Loadin’ Up a PowerBook

Dave Taylor: Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook

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Dvorak Confuses W3C and W3Schools

Backup Brain: “the W3C it ain’t.” (Amazing…you’d think that Dvorak could afford a fact-checker or maybe even take the time to check stuff himself)

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Mac OS X for Fortran Geeks

Eric Zelman: “If you have any interest in Fortran on Mac OS X, this is an essential seminar.”

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Plain-textification

Mac Geekery has a cool post on how to modify an application to support a pasteAsPlainText action. If you don’t mind an extra step when copying, you can add a shell script to your Script Menu. Create a file in … Continue reading

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VPC Now Purring

The other day, Scott Hanselman posted some Virtual PC optimization tips. There wasn’t a whole lot that I could do from that list, but there was one tip I took to heart: “Place the .VHD files on separate spindle from … Continue reading

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ATI Screen Savers for Mac OS X

Forwarding Address: OS X: “If you have one those spiffy new ATI RADEON cards, you might want to check out these screen savers from ATI…Seems they ported all their DirectX 9 demos over to OpenGL.”

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Yellow Dog Linux On a Firewire Drive

I installed Yellow Dog on a Lombard a little while back, and found a cool HOWTO on migrating the Linux install to a firewire drive. I need to have Linux with me on the next trip I take, and I … Continue reading

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