The average computer user has a deluge of information to deal with on a daily basis. Sometimes just capturing the information is not enough. You need to be able to find it easily and quickly at some later date. I started out using Apple’s stickies back in OS 9 and then graduated to a notepad widget with the release of Tiger. Those are great options if you are going to use the information soon after capturing it.
I haven’t quite finished the second part of “The catch all application” so in the meantime, here’s a couple more videos of Apple’s upcoming OS release code name Leopard.
This one is actually like a little commercial for Apple. It shows most of the new hotness we can expect. Although I don’t believe the Ipod web browser is real.
Here’s one of the synthesized voices.
And one of the next iteration of Expose that most people are calling a fake.
I came across more videos of Safari 3 features.
This one is of the built-in search and highlight feature and this one takes advantage of the custom widget creation tools. Another one is the search feature for the system wide help. Hurry and check them out before Apple demands that Youtube take them down.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Mac, OSX, Leopard
It’s looking very much like 2GB of RAM in the Mac Pro simply is not enough. With any other computer that would not be a big deal. $100 would solve the problem. But oh no…not for the illustrious Apple Mac “Pro.” It will cost a painful $300 for another 1GB. Sure the computer is ultra quiet. I’m sure those special heat sinks are helping. But my god, $300 for a measly one GB of RAM?
I take a lot of notes when I’m using my computer. I tried several hipster-esque methods that include 3X5 cards and Moleskines but finding exactly what I’m looking for later was never any easy or precise task. about 18 months ago I invested in Devonthink Pro. I used it exclusively for my note taking on the mac until about a month ago (I use oneNote and that MS office note-thingy on the PC side).
If you are running the new Parallels RC on a Mac Pro you may have come across this little message when you boot up Windows:
If you read the Parallels support blog about this there’s some help from the user base that indicates you have to put your machine to sleep after reboot in order for this vt-x support to be available in Parallels.
It does work. Before putting the machine to sleep, it took about 1 minuet for Windows XP Pro to startup.
The Parallels website now warns that it is not compatible with the Mac Pro:
“At the moment Parallels Desktop doesn’t run on Mac Pro. We’ll provide an updated version that will function on Mac Pro soon. Click here to sign for Parallels news and stay updated about this issue”.
However, they claim there is a patch in development. This is great news. Let’s hope that they can pull it off. If not, this could be a serious blow to Apple’s quest to capture some of the PC crowd with a mac that can run windows.
I hear a few people really raving about Apple’s Dashboard. Personally, I’ve found it only mildly useful. Most things take up system ram and resources that I don’t really want to sacrifice.
When OS 10.4 first came out with Dashboard I (like everyone else) jumped on it and loaded up every widget we could get our hands on. I had been using Konfabulator (I even purchased a license) with a couple of widgets, but Dashboard looked so darn sexy that I piled every known applet onto my dashboard.
I came across this YouTube video of Safari 3 doing the tabs thing. While tabs really aren’t that big of a deal anymore, the Apple implementation is gorgeous. You can drag and drop tabs between browser windows. Safari closes any window that you remove the last tab from. You can also drag a tab out to create its own window.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Mac, OSX, Software
I sat down at my mac tonight and was greeted with a huge update for Quicksilver
As you can see this there are updates to the menu interface as well as many of my favorite modules. This is fantastic support for a program that is not only free, but that is also NOT open source. I don’t know for sure, but I think it is one person handling all this development.
