Thanks to my friend and colleague Heather, Mom now has a new-used MacBook. Yes, her Gateway POS finally died, and Mom couldn’t afford a new computer, so Heather was nice enough to give Mom an excellent deal on her old machine. Autumn and I took it up to Tim’s house where Mom was spending the [...]
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Google Desktop
I have always loved Google. From Google Apps to the can’t-live-without-it Gmail, Google makes software that has really changed the way I use computers and the Internet for good. Today, there is a new reason to love Google: they have introduced Google Desktop for the Mac. According to their press release, this application will “provide [...]
Mac Software I Use
After checking out a link to some Mac software this afternoon, I decided that I needed to document the software I use. I frequently have others — especially people new to the Mac — ask me about software solutions for various needs they have. These will often be for professional uses, but many just want [...]
MacTampa Manifesto
The history of the personal computer has been dominated by the struggle of operating platforms. DOS and UNIX, Windows and Macintosh, proprietary and open source, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stand in constant opposition to one another. In the epoch of electronics, the struggle for machine dominance has entered the realm of the personal [...]
Why a Mac?
Well, the plain-and-simple answer is that Macs are a fact of life. Our students use Macs, some of us use Macs, and sometimes a Mac is just plain superior in some tasks. We want to be able to easily translate documents between platforms — a Macintosh does this effortlessly. Since we want to create more [...]