Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Growl - a global notification system for Mac OS X

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Always nice to find out that there is always one application, that was unknown before and becomes a must-have for an alpha-geek. Growl is a small utility that adds nice notification messages to your system. Something like Synergy is for iTunes but for the whole system. Lots of applications can use Growl. It notifies you when […]

Switching accomplished. The Tiger’s running.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Yesterday I got my 10.4 Upgrade DVD and today I’m already using ‘Tiger’. Since there lots of reviews out there I just want to mention a few things: Spotlight is pretty cool, while not as fast as LaunchBar on my G3 iBook 800 with 640 MB RAM. I think I’ll use Spotlight, when Launchbar comes to […]

Übersicht zur Kaufentscheidung iBook, Mac mini oder iMac?

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

Da ich nicht immer wieder frustrierten Windows-Nutzern unentgeltlich die verschiedenen Mac-Modelle vorstellen möchte (vielleicht sollte ich doch in Apple-Aktien investieren) gibt es hier die Übersicht zum Selbststudium. In der iBook, Mac mini und iMac-Übersicht sind die aktuellen Konfiguration die über den Apple-Store bezogen werden können, mitsamt BTO-Optionen dargestellt. Also erst anschauen, überlegen was die Prioritäten sind (Billig, […]

Tiger is coming…

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

I just placed my order for OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ a few minutes ago. Since I bought a MacMini on the 12th of April I’m allowed to use Apples Up-To-Date-Programme (german version. I can get the big cat for only 17,99 Euro grrrr

Leaving Home - How to organize and secure your data I

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

What is ‘my data’ and what’s not? In my understanding data is ‘content I’ve created’ and ‘content I use’ - pretty easy. Everything else is either setup-information or … just stuff. But what about MP3s and Movies? Music and Movies is data that is not related to my person and information that I share or willing […]

OS X 10.4 “Tiger” Review on arstechnica.com

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

John Siracusa from arstechnica.com wrote an interesting review about the newest version of Mac OS X codename “Tiger”. I had no time to upgrade to 10.4 yet, but since it seems that there still some problems (Tiger Incompatibility-List and poor Quicktime performance) with the newest release, I can wait a few more days.

Funny review of the MacMini OR is it satire

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Today I found a nice article about the MacMini and OS X and why Wintel (Windows+Intel) machines are superiour, written by a windows user (obviously NOT me)

Howto learn AppleScript

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Phil decided to learn AppleScript and shows where to start.