You’re probably well aware that you can plug an external monitor into your Macbook and use both the built-in display and the external monitors in a dual display configuration. Since your Mac only has one monitor port, it would seem that one external display is the maximum, but there are ways around that limitation. I’m [...]
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Apparently Vista is better than OS X
A “journalist” named Preston Gralla recently wrote a Computerworld article titled Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X. Based on the overwhelming -467 ranking of this article and the scathing comments, it’s pretty clear that this guy is out to lunch. Now, back when I was a Windows user I would have chalked this [...]
OS X keyboard shortcut symbols
I’ve been on a Mac now for months, and those perplexing little symbols for keyboard shortcuts have been driving me crazy. I finally broke down and searched to figure out exactly what they all mean. I found a table at a site called OSXkeyboardshortcuts.com which has exactly what I needed: OS X Keyboard Shortcuts. Please [...]
Evernote for the Mac – I can’t wait
Wow, just wow. I just watched the video for the upcoming version of Evernote, an application I used to use regularly back when I was a Windows user. Evernote’s claim to fame was that it allowed users to capture notes in a never-ending ribbon of paper paradigm. You could simply scroll back in time endlessly [...]
Testing Ecto
I’ve been reading quite a bit about the latest beta version of Ecto, and decided that I had to try it out for myself. Typically I’m not big on external editors for blogs, however I have to say this one is growing on me, and I’ve only been using it for about four minutes. I [...]