Archive for August, 2009
VMware Fusion 2 and Snow Leopard – Better?
I'm eagerly awaiting the FedEx truck to bring my Family Pack of Snow Leopard to my door. While I'm doing so, I'm researching a few of the apps I use most on my Mac. VMware Fusion is a great product. It lets me do the things that I require Windows for without me having to own a PC to do it. VMware posted an article with a misleading title [...]
Snow Leopard Is Here! (Sort of)
The much awaited, highly publicized latest version of Mac OS X has arrived. Well, almost. Originally announced to be available "sometime in September", it is now officially slated to ship on August 28. You can upgrade from Leopard for a mere $29, or get a family pack upgrade for only $49 (You can install it on up to 5 Macs with the family [...]
SUSE Studio Review
About three weeks ago, I ran across an interesting offering by SUSE. They've created a website that allows you to create your own custom Linux (SUSE, of course) build, with exactly the packages you want installed. You can start out with a JeOS build and expand from there, or you can start out with a standard Gnome or KDE (3 or 4) build and add [...]
Preparing for Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard, Apple's latest iteration of it's Mac OS X is set to be released sometime next month. There have been rumors that it could appear earlier, but we're almost there anyway, so it won't really matter. Erica Ogg over at CNET posted an article that tackles the most commonly asked questions about Snow Leopard and the differences between [...]
TomTom for iPhone is Here
Quite a few people have been waiting on this one. TomTom has finally delivered a $100 app for the iPhone, giving users real-time GPS navigation, right on their iPhone. So far, people seem to like it pretty well. If I didn't already have a cheap, $100 TomTom One device, I'd consider buying this app. The only thing the app offers that my unit [...]
