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OSX Lion Full Screen Mode is a Dual-Monitor Failure

Posted on January 24, 2012 by in Apple, Mac, Soapbox

Running full-screen apps on OSX Lion is a great way to remove all distractions when you’re working and ensure you’re getting the most out of every pixel on your display. That is, unless you’re using more than one display, in which case, it sucks.

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So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish.

Posted on October 6, 2011 by in Apple, Mac, Personal Notes

A short tribute to Steve Jobs and Apple.

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OS X Lion Safari: Yech.

Posted on September 28, 2011 by in Mac

I recently read about known problems with memory leaks in Lion Safari which likely accounts for the problems I’ve been seeing: I keep Safari open for a while and it gets insanely sluggish loading pages and scrolling through content.

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Sharing Preferences Pane in OS X Lion

OS X Lion Makes Internet Sharing Easier Than Before

Posted on August 2, 2011 by in iPhone, Mac

After recently upgrading to OS X Lion, I was delighted to discover that this process of constantly needing to toggle internet sharing is a thing of the past.

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Does OSX Lion’s Mail Client Make Sparrow Obsolete?

Posted on March 10, 2011 by in Apple, iPhone, Mac

Apple’s been spending a lot of time in the past couple years making innovations in iOS. The iPhone, iPod touch and iPad’s technology has changed the way we interact with devices and now Apple is bringing those innovations back into Mac OS X with Lion, which will be available this summer. Last time I wrote, [...]

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Are Desktop Apps Taking Over Again?

Posted on January 4, 2011 by in iPhone, Mac

These days, so much of what could only be accomplished offline 10 years ago has been taken to the cloud. So much so, that perpetual latecomers Microsoft have even started doing TV ads on their cloud-based image editing solution. (On a side note, easy-to-use image editing software doesn’t make your kids behave – that ad [...]

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Hackintosh!

Posted on October 9, 2010 by in Mac

After discovering this great article which seems to have made making a hackintosh PC simple enough as to not make it a chore, I’m going to give it a go this weekend. I’ve read some articles about converting your PC to an OSX machine before, but none made it look so enticing. I don’t really [...]

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John Lennon's Imagine

Imagine (John Lennon cover)

Posted on April 24, 2010 by in Mac, music

In which the author posts a cover he recorded and hopes you enjoy it.

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Must-Have Mac Apps

Posted on February 3, 2010 by in Mac

In which the author steals an awesome list of Mac apps from his friend and adds a suggestion or two of his own.

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