If you are currently authoring what will become the four hundredth blog post to turn up in my Google Reader feed today about the new MacBooks (which, it must be said, are pretty damn sexy), kindly do me a favour and refrain from starting it with “just in case you missed it”. There have been so many posts about the announcement that the (ever-so- ( Read more... )

So yesterday I went out and bought myself a whole bunch of shiny new things, justifying each purchase with the fact that I was paying less than retail for it (especially the $109 shoes I got for $60).

One thing I bought was the new Apple keyboard. I hadn't expected to like it at all, because it looked just like a laptop keyboard, and I hate hate ( Read more... )

"The new iMac. You can't be too thin."

I mean, come on. Was anybody thinking there?

Also, for the record: I like mine better.

What does this remind you of?


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All things going according to plan, my iMac should ship today and begin the slow dance of the courier down the country, arriving on Monday or Tuesday. Somehow this takes some of the magic out of buying an Apple, as if I had expected it to arrive by non-corporeal means: perhaps, when one is emotionally ready for an iMac, it ought to appear beside ( Read more... )

OK, add to the list of things that are annoying me more than they should: I can't tab to non-text form fields (select boxes, check boxes, radio buttons). Is there some kind of setting for this?

That is so much better. Thanks, entomocephalous!

And browsers! On Windows and Linux, I am staunchly pro-Firefox. But on the Mac... Firefox has all my lovely extensions, ( Read more... )

I am posting this from the Mac Mini I have on loan from my father, with a view to purchasing one in the next year or so.
Cons (so far)

• I hate the keyboard (note to self: buy a PS/2 to USB adaptor)
• It is taking a while to remember to close the applications and not just their windows
• I can't properly install Ruby until I have downloaded XCode ( ( Read more... )