On Tech5 today John C. Dvorak (and hosted here @ http://targuman.org/ daily) comments in passing about the rumored change from .Mac to “Mobile Me.” Details of this are at Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Aside from the name being hideous (and it does really sound like something that would come out of […]
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When Leopard came out I was very excited about Spaces, but realized fairly soon that it was more trouble than it was worth. I turned it off. The recent Mac OS update brings some improvements and John Gruber of Daring Fireball has reported a key advance in Spaces. I haven’t […]
I have mentioned before that I have used Nisus Writer for years (my doctoral thesis and book were written in it). Although I still use Word for collaborative projects, to make sure comments can be read, etc. I love NWP, use it, and support it whenever I can. (It has […]
We are hosting our Big 10 colleagues in honors education today. Given this event, I thought I would I would repost from my SHC PSU blog this entry from last year. I will write more later since we are addressing the difficult challenge of admissions process and I think many […]
From The Wired Campus If Monday’s earthquake in China has sparked an interest in seismology, and you happen to own a Mac laptop, you can transform your computer into your own personal seismic station. A free program from SeisMac takes advantage of the acceleration sensor inside you computer to register […]
Mac Office 2008 SP1 It’s finally here! The MacBU has just released Service Pack 1 for Mac Office 2008. You can download the update directly from the Mactopia website (it’s large — about 180 MB), or launch your favorite Office app and select Help/Check for Updates. There are well over […]
Too many meetings this week to blog properly, but I did take some pics. This is my PowerBook 140 that I bought in the summer of 1992 (just before it was EOL) for my entire summer paycheck. I used it through two masters degrees and most of my doctorate. It […]
Don’t mix very well. I was folding clothes that were staticy and ZAP! my ears were ringing after a static charge had run through the ear buds. They still work now (the buds and my ears) but there is a slight fuzz (in the buds not my ears). So let […]
For quite some time now I have had “robots” mining my posts and putting them on their “blogs” resulting in pingback in my posts. Most of these are just intended to generate traffic back to their sites. Lately there have been some from a site of various names, but if […]
Doug Chaplin has been considering switching from a PC to the Mac OS and asked about various programs on the Mac platform, in particular which word processor to use. Below is the comment I posted and I thought I would share it here as well. Nisus Writer Pro, without a […]