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Six new television ads from the new “Get A Mac” campaign at Apple. The “Viruses” one is laugh-out-loud funny. (”I’m just going to crash…”)
Get A Mac Ads

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For the past few months I have been using the keyboard that came with the iMac as my primary input device. Through some nifty software to allow one keyboard and mouse to control two computers with dedicated LCD screens. The arrangement has worked very well for me except for the keyboard itself.
I find the keys [...]

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Over the weekend I installed Mac OS X release 10.4 on my two Macintoshes. Overall the experience was a good one. Apple includes a nice “archive and install” option that makes a copy of the current OS installation just in case. Selecting this option also enables the more important, in my estimation, “preserve users and [...]

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Over the weekend I rearranged the furniture in the apartment. The new setting requires that both primary computers (the Powerbook and the iMac) connect to the LAN wirelessly. The Powerbook has had an Airport card for some time now, but the iMac has always been hard wired.
Imagine my surprise, and then dismay, to learn that [...]

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One of the things I like about Apple Computer is their sense of social conscience. Take their home page today for example.

Think Different indeed.

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What he said.

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After reading about ClamXav I thought I’d download it and give it a try.
Like most “Switchers I brought with me a whole host of documents, images, music, and zip files. Turns out that there were some parasites in and among the collection.
While my machine maybe safe from the viruses of the Windows world (unless I [...]

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Om Malik has started a new meme, this time about freeware or shareware Mac applications “that have helped you get the most out of your Mac.”
Here’s my list:
X-Pad: A notepad with state. No files to save or open, just type and it is saved for you. As an incorrigible note taker this gem has saved [...]

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Forget running Mac OS X on any old Intel processor. I managed to sneak into Apple’s R&D Lab and make off with a soon to be released G5 Powerbook!
See:

Actually I followed this Mac OS X Hint.
Kinda makes you wonder about the veracity of all these Mac OS X running on x86 machines, doesn’t it.

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Increasingly on television I am seeing Apple Powerbooks prominently displayed and yet camouflaged at the same time. Just this evening I watched Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the crew was “watching” a video on an 15″ Aluminum Powerbook; only the Apple logo on the lid was covered by a wide piece of tape stretched from [...]

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