11 posts tagged Non-game computer stuff

I would love to have a no-compromise wireless network in my home. In this imaginary scenario, I would be able to put a computer anywhere in the house, even carry one out onto the patio, and get something approaching gigabit Ethernet speeds. Heck, I’d even be happy with half that: 300 Mbps… or even a really reliable true 100 Mbps link- that would be nice.

Next year’s PC… Posted by Kelly Adams on December 15th, 2007 I was starting to think that the tide might be turning away from ATI + AMD: my favoured platform for the last four years or so. Both Intel and NVidia have been ahead of ATI/AMD now for about a year in terms of top-end video card and CPU performance.

“Send your email as HTML” just a *suggestion* on the Mac Posted by Kelly Adams on December 9th, 2007 I have a deep, dark secret to admit: I often send email using HTML/rich text features. I know, it is shocking: but I fear the seductive features of things like fonts, bold facing, and colour have turned me from the true path of pure text.

Adding memory to a MacBook Pro Posted by Kelly Adams on November 3rd, 2007 I can never leave well enough alone.  If 2 GB of RAM in my MacBook Pro is good, 4 GB of RAM would be better, right?  Well, as a matter of fact, yes.  So I set out to expand the memory of my new Macintosh, and have a few tidbits to share.

Pictures of the new Baby… Posted by Kelly Adams on November 3rd, 2007 I’ve had my MacBook Pro for a week now, thought it would be a good time to share some pictures.  Here she is:   This picture was taken the very first time I powered the machine on, after it had completed its initial setup. 

Gettin’ jiggy with VMWare on the Mac Posted by Kelly Adams on October 31st, 2007 I mentioned earlier that I had installed VMWare Fusion on my MacBook.  One of my objectives with this was to be able to run Windows Live Writer on my Macintosh for editing this blog.

Everyone knows, of course, that you can run Windows applications on a Macintosh. When Macs started shipping with Intel processors this became almost a no brainer. Boot Camp is the most obvious way to achieve the “Windows on a Mac” experience, but is a bit of a brute force approach: when you boot your machine, it is either a Macintosh or a Windows based system, not both at the same time.

What the heck is a winmail.dat attachment? Posted by Kelly Adams on October 30th, 2007 Being new to the Macintosh, I’m “discovering” things for the first time that are ancient history for most Mac users. That is entirely to be expected. But I must admit I totally mis-diagnosed a mysterious email attachment I received today.

.Mac Sync: down for 10 days and counting Posted by Kelly Adams on October 30th, 2007 I mentioned in my previous post that I have subscribed to .Mac, Apple’s online service for file sharing, email, and so forth. One of the neat things .Mac can do is automatically synchronize your Mac’s address book, email, and calendar so that you can access it using a web browser on any computer.

Migrating a few things to the Macintosh Posted by Kelly Adams on October 30th, 2007 I’ve had my Mac for a couple of days now, and I’m having fun with it. Since it’s a laptop, it is often more at hand then my main PC. That, coupled with a somewhat intriguing calendaring and address book application, has convinced me to migrate my email.