Contents— elf's Apple PowerBook G4 Journal
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This page contains the index to all the past entries of my Powerbook Journal which documents my experiences with my first Mac— a 15in. Powerbook G4, bought in February 2005. The entries from first few months will be useful for anyone converting to the Mac for the first time. It is likely you will ask the same questions I asked, fortunately for you I have already found the answers and documented them here.
Part 0: Prologue
- Week 0: (Feb. 7 - 17, 2005)
The Decision to Buy · The Decision Not to Wait for the G5s · What Did I Get? · The Online Order · The Wait Begins... · It Shipped! (No, not really) · An Aside About My Current Laptop · Naming · Sudden Motion Sensor · More Waiting · Renaming? · Popular Apps · Tim Bray on using OSX · It Shipped! (Really!) · Tracking · Office Suite · Countdown Begins · Terminal Colors · Tomorrow! ·
Part 1
- Week 1: (Feb. 17 - 24, 2005)
The Arrival · Read All About It · User Accounts · The NeXT Day · Booting · First Impressions · Calibrating the Battery · iPhoto · Differences · DVD Player Blues . MenuMeters · Eye Strain · Killing Windows · DVD Drive Vibrations · iCal Updates in the Dock · A Hang and a Re-boot · Kill Bill · Re-calibrate the LCD Display · Finder FTP · Technical Specifications · Burning Bridges - Week 2: (Feb 25 - Mar 2, 2005)
The Register's PowerBook Review · SMART Reporter · Networking aleph and mathilde · Zsh · HB SPJ · Celestia · Solitaire XL · DVD Player Icon · The Unix Mentality · Jef Raskin, RIP · Submitted Bug-reports · Clutter · Windows Sharing · Zero Configuration / Rendezvous · iTerm · MenuMeters and Tofu - Week 3: (Mar 3 - Mar 10, 2005)
I Don't Iconify · Changing File Associations · Meteorologist · Cyberduck and NeoOffice/J · Intel Emulators · Keybindings · Firefox · Pacifist · Is OS X Enterprise Ready? · Linus Switches to Mac · Comprehensive List of Keyboard Shortcuts · Platypus · Busy With Work · - Week 4: (Mar 11 - 17, 2005)
Batteries Are Included · X11 and Gimp · AMSVisualiser · DevBugs Response · Meta-Key In Xterm · Top-10 Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks · The Competition: Sony Vaio FS550 · The Gimp: Ever the Irritant · More Xterm Meta-key Woes · Goodbye iTerm · Graphing Calculator · I Say · New Mouse · "The Incredibles" Mini-review · Meta-key Now Works in Xterm Through SSH · Bug ID# 4055945 · Eating Apples
Part 2
- Week 5: (Mar 18 - 25, 2005)
A Milestone · Mailed SystemProfile to Apple · Temperature Monitor · TV · Update on Windows Rendezvous · Update on Previewing Images on a CF Card · Soundflower · xrdb · Emacs · Speech · BubbleGym · Daring Fireball · - Week 6: (Mar 26 - 31, 2005)
Tiger Mauls Emacs · Crash No. 2 · SPOD Spotter's Handbook · OnyX · Ejecting Stuck Media · DS_Store: OS X was here · iPhoto and iMovie · iPod Health Warnings · SPOD vs. SBOD · MPlayerOSX · Paul Graham Comments on the Mac · Crimson Skies! · Windows is Ugly · Back and Forth · Carrying cases · iPhoto PhotoBook · G5 PowerBooks Announced - Week 7: (Apr 1 - 10, 2005)
Terminal.app Woes Revisited · More Emacs Tweaks · iPhoto Feature Request · Tiger Mauls Zsh · Audacity · Carbon Emacs Tips · Zsh OK On Tiger · More Audacity · BubbleGym Revisited · Gruber vs. Bray · Aquamacs · The Inevitable · Monkeybread Software · A New Version of iTerm · XDesktopWaves · Latin-1 Finally Works in Emacs · Default Browser for Emacs · Speech Revisited - Week 8: (Apr 11 - 18, 2005)
Build Your Own Mac · Tiger on the 29th · iTunes Does Ogg · Screenshot · 10.3.9 is Out! · The Two-Month Look-back ·
Part 3
- Week 9: (Apr 19 - 26, 2005)
Startup Sound · Look-back Addendum · Developing Cocoa Objective-C Applications Tutorial · Quicktime Droplets · Quicksilver Tutorial · My First Photobook · is now displayed in Terminal! · Talk is Cheap · Gimp, RIP · Playing a Sequence of Video Clips · iPhoto Update 5.0.2 Installed · OS X and X · My Photobook Shipped · Crimson Skies Redux · - Week 10: (Apr 28 - May 06, 2005)
iCon · Ars Technica Tiger Review · PhotoBooks Arrive · Point-Zero Releases · Recently Watched DVDs · Rendering Bugs in Preview? · Official Apple Putty Knife · Apple Announces iMac hardware upgrades · Security Blanket · Mezzoblue Tiger · Image Well · - Week 11: (May 08 - 14, 2005)
QuickImageCM · Extracting DVD Audio · Battery Reading · Dashboard/Safari Exploit · OMG! President Bush Listens to an iPod · Apple Tablet? · Rotate Screen · iPhoto Keywords · Heavyweight Bout · DVD Player (Non) Update · Battery Reading · Yahoo iPod · DVD Imager · Chopper · wget · iPhoto Books as PDF · - Week 12: (May 15 - 22, 2005)
iPhoto Crash · Finder Improvements · Smart Folders in the Finder · Tiger 10.4.1 Released · Nothing Much... · Register's Review of “iCon” · Closed Captioning · Battery Exchange · Battery Charge Cycle Count · AppleScript Thumbnails · Rebinding Keyboard Shortcuts · AppleStore Yorkdale · Slow Mo · Bug ID# 4127120 · Wishingline · DVD Images Test ·
Part 4
- Week 13: (May 25 - Jun 1, 2005)
Apple talks to Intel · Senuti: Recover Music From The iPod · Godfather II · 50 Fun Things for the iPod · Register's Tiger Review · No GUI · Groggy Time Update · Replacement Battery · Finder Custom Icon in Sidebar Bug · Disable Spotlight in Tiger · And the Winner is... · Backwards Compatibility · Terminal URLs · Memory Corruption · iRAID · iComic · No EDU Discounts for K12 Students · Preview Bookmark · AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! · Finder Custom Icons Gone · Clone Wars · “Deep Throat” Revealed · DoubleCommand · MPEG-2 · WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! · - Week 14: (Jun 2 - Jun 10, 2005)
Thumbnails: Thumbscrew, Pinki · Milestone · MPlayerOSX Revisited · Leisure · Rumour Control · Dual Core G4 Powerbook? · More Leisure · Switch Back · Leftover Trash · It gets better... · D-DAY · Battery Exchange Redux · Transition Kit · What If... · What's the Big Deal? Battery X · Register's Tiger Review II · Case Insensitivity · Obsolescence · Charge Cycles · Apple/Intel Merger · 10.3.9 Security Update 006 · Renaming CF Card · OS 9 · Memories of WWDC · - Week 15: (Jun 11 -19, 2005)
Money and Ego · The Garden of Eden · JWZ Buys a Mac · Cycle Count Reset To 1 · Increased Transparency · Apple Transition on the Wikipedia · The Gospel According to Jobs · OSx86 Leaked · A “Discolouration” · Old Battery · HastalaDS_Store · Apple's Developer Transition Kit · icculus · Mycroft: Firefox Search Plugins · Longest Uptime Ever · WWDC 2005 Pics · The Royal iPod · - Week 16: (Jun 21 - Jun 30, 2005)
There is No Osborne Effect · Multi-session with BurnX Free · The Future of Multi-session CDs in OS X · NeoOffice/J 1.1 · “I Have a Mac” Secret Hand-shake · Ça Va Bien? · Linux on POWER · Macworld Reader Survey · Sun Ultra 3 · iTunes 4.9 Released · The Ultimate Google · New iPods · Jurassic Mac ·
Part 5
- Week 17: (Jul 1 - 8, 2005)
Canada Day · IMDB Power-search · DVD Player Substitute · Preview.app for Tiger has bookmarks · Niceplayer: A Really Nice DVD Player · 3-D Filesystem Viewer · QuickSilver Upgrade · Panavision · Episode III Pre-Viz · DoubleCommand · HOORAY!!! Command is now Meta · 2005 IDEA Awards for Apple · FedEx Logo · Terrorist Attack in London · IBM Announces New G5 Chips · Cult Movies · - Week 18: (Jul 12 - 19, 2005)
otool · (So-called) iPod Battery Replacement · DIY Battery Replacement · Widget Manager · Tiger 10.4.2 Released · iPhoto Catalog · iPhoto 5.0.3 Update Released · Windows Airport · Best Quarter Ever · Uptime · I See iPods Everyday · Ernest Lehman, RIP · DNS Strangeness · 10.3.9 · Fear and Intimidation · Realplayer 10 Gold · Shift · Cisco 6513 Power-supply, RIP · Video iPod · Kubricks · - Week 19: (Jul 20 - 27, 2005)
The Eagle has Landed · The Google Has Landed · James Doohan, RIP · BaCKStep · The Birth of Doom 3 · DVD Player Bug Fixed (in Tiger) · iBook and Mini Upgrades · Register's OQO Review · Plasma Tunnel Screensaver · What If... · Battery Exchange in Personalized iPods · Upgraded to Firefox 1.0.6 · Why Firefox? · Konfabulator is Now Free · iPhoto Upgraded to 5.0.3 (262) · Konfabulator Widgets · Power Outage · Finder UI Anomaly · - Week 20: (Jul 28 - Aug 4, 2005)
iBook and Mac Mini Upgraded · NSWindow and .nib · Konfabulator Weather · Controlling the Weather · Night Weather · Key Replacement · Mactel DevKit DVD leaked · Gnome 2.12 · Improve PhotoBook DPI · Wing Commander: Privateer Gemini Gold · Go · iPhoto Utilities · Cory Doctorow Weighs in on Apple TCM · Mighty Mouse · Air France Accident at Pearson · PackageMaker · Thing Secret Court Documents · Transparency · DiscBlaze · Hire the Best · UPS Troubles ·
Part 6
- Week 21: (Aug 5 - 13, 2005 )
Mozilla Upgrade Makes Plugins Disappear · iDVD is Amazing · Forgot Exposé Shortcut · Glass Stairs in Applestores · Japan iTMS · Lacie Databank · Ardour · She's Alive · Netra 150 · The Prophecy is Fulfilled · Nuke Anything Plugin for Firefox · Slow Burn · Another Power Failure · - Week 22: (Aug 14 - 26, 2005)
Evolution of the GUI · Powerbook Upgrades Rumoured · Skippy: Bargain Basement Exposé · Tiger Security Patch Required a Patch · Wireless Bonjour · Ignorance Is Bliss · Disable iPhoto from Starting when a Camera is Plugged-in · One of These Things... · iTunes does CD Inserts · QuickErase · Solitaire XL Upgrade · - Week 23: (Aug 27 - Sep 6, 2005)
The Next Big Thing · Command-line Sleep · The Invisible Computer · Lacie Data Bank Arrives · Gruber on Google · RSS Feeds · TUAW · Lacie Data Bank Picked-up · Dreams Can Come True · Machine Translation · LEGO Digital Designer · Lacie Data Bank Pictures · Mac Version of the Gmail Notifier Released · Gmail Notifier Problem · Thumbscrew Problems · Backups With SilverKeeper · Wireless Cameras · Dive Into OS X FAQ · SilverKeeper Interface · Powersleeve 15 · Let Sleeping Dogs Lie · Verify and Repair Permissions · TiddlyWiki · Sacha Chua · Fun With Math: Interpolating Data · Free Solitaire 3D · Epson Announces a Mini Projector · LEGO Designer · What's on Woz's iPod · - Week 24: (Sep 7 - 18, 2005)
Out Of Stock · OMFG!!! (The Nano) · First iPodNano Review· 7 Easy Pieces · Cerf's Up · Why Does Google Make Mac Users Suffer? · The Unfinished Revolution · 20-Questions Google · Choosing Between the Nano And The iPod · Sun Galaxy Servers · Apple Stats · My First DVD With iDVD · Nano Sales ·
Part 7
- Week 25: (Sep 19 - 29)
FontExplorer X · The Register's Nano Review · Andy Hertzfeld · ROKR Phone Closeup? · iPod Audiobooks · Finders Weepers · Another Mac Convert? · iPhoto 5.0.4 Update · Apple in Print · My 6-month Retrospective is Overdue · 20 in. LCD Comparison · Emacs on Aqua · Stuck DMG · Nano, pico, femto · iPhoto 5.0.4 Crash · Doom 3 Demo for OS X · Zork · A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Mars · Oatmeal Breakfast · - Week 26: (Sep 30 - Oct 5)
OS X for Unix Hackers · Nano Scratches · Flawed Music Player · DVD Media Quality · NFS Client and Server · Where's the Docs? · MenuCalendarClock · NoScript Mozilla Extension · Sun and Google · Car Ownership · - Week 27: (Oct 6 - 14)
Topic for #macosx · Google Recruiting at U of T · Paul Cézanne · TargetAlert Firefox Extension · Konfabulator Weather Errors · TargetAlert Update: New Tab, Not Window · Crash! · Fourth Quarter Results · Apple Announces New G5 iMacs · Video iPod and iTunes 6 · PowerBook Sighting · iPod Your Car · Mackhacking.net - Week 28: (Oct 15 - 22)
Obsession · Another Convert · TIME: How Apple Does It · A Half-step · Blindspot · First iMac G5 in Buffalo · Apple Announces Dual-core G5, ... Aperture · “Resilient Enterprise” · iTunes Discovery · RIP and Goodbye · WTF(inder)! · Finder Re-write for Leopard · 3-Finger Salute · - Week 29: (Oct 25 - 31)
Australia iTMS · Time · Linotype FontExplorer X · Harry Potter Computers · photoDrop · Origins of the Species · From Fonts, Kanji Pictograms to The Ampersand · Tiger 10.4.3 Released ·
Part 8
- Week 30: (Nov 1 - 8)
6-month Summary · Episode 3· New FreeBSD Logo · iFire · Great Expectations · Scary Smart · Google Print · Complexity · Requiem for a Kernel Panic · iMac Review · “iPod, Therefore I Am” · Narrow Down a Search · Yet Another Emacs· One Million Macs Served · The Venerable Floppy · - Week 31: (Nov 9 - 16)
Gods, Monsters and Myths · MacWorld Reader Survey · “Switching To The Mac” · Daring Fireball 15 in. Powerbook Review · iDVD Update 5.0.1 · Make Your Own DVD · Google's Free WiFi · Breakfast of Champions · Take Cover · Ghost User · 3ivx MPEG4 Plugin for Quicktime Player · Matrix Screensaver · iTunes Load · Sony Fiasco · Solarwind · Enabling Safesleep on ecent Macs · 1 Nano, Slightly Used · Applestore in the Eaton Center? · - Week 32 (Nov 17 - 24)
“Mac Bathroom Reader” · Busy Week at Work · iWords · Wowzers! · More Mac Users · LoginWindow Manager · The Magic of rsync · Calm Technology · Spirited Away · Tallis, Palestrina and Garageband · Games · iPhoto Buddy · Lacie (LEGO) Brick Hard-disks · Adoring Fans · The Feast After the Feast · “Parental Switchers” · Games Update · - Week 33 (Nov 25 - 30)
Digg · Installed America's Army: Special Forces· Ive Interview · Dimple · Hiring Practices · Flaky “K” · Snö · DOSbox · MacLampsX · Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Announced · Gaming Update: Deleted American's Army · Gaming Update: Re-install Warbirds 3 · HD-DVD and Blu-ray Now, Holographic Storage Later · The Mothership .
Part 9
- Week 34 (Dec 2 - 9)
Easy— Searching Without Spotlight · Partition Magic for OS X · Internet Stats · G4 Optimized Mozilla Firefox · Things to Come · The Digital Way · Swap iTunes Tags? · LD_LIBRARY_PATH · Madly In Love · Imagine · Google Earth for OS X (Soon) · Apple's Viral Marketing Campaign? - Week 35 (Dec 10 -)
A Nano Proposal · Historical Garages · Xooglers · IP over Firewire · Switching Between Multiple Network Configurations · Yahoo: The Un-Google · Surfing Habits · Dating Hackers · foXposé · Publishing Your Blog · Things That Make You Go Hmmm... · Nobel Festivities · New iTunes Library · Google Music Search · Ways to use iSight · Google Terminal · Bad Sleep · - Week 36 (Dec 18 - 25)
#}&/;!@~ LOST CARRIER · Viral Marketing: Just as I Thought · Larger Screen· The Ultimate Portable Media · Lexicon · The $100 Laptop · Interview process at Microsoft · Mac IE is Dead · First Yonah Announcement · Microsoft Buys Opera Browser? · Service Scrubber · The Emperor's Three Questions · “Geometry and Meaning ” · 'Twas the Night Before Christmas · Playing Video Clips · The Complete New Yorker · - Week 37 (Dec 26 - 30)
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 · Apple Network Server · “The Equation That Couldn't be Solved” · Flare · DVD Imager To The Rescue · 22C3 · MacGirls ·
Part 10
- Week 38 (Dec 31, 2005 - Jan 7,
2006)
Paul Thurrott's Blog · 2006 · Rip Firefox Extension · Camino Browser · Yonah Ships · Powerbook Surgery · iKitty · “The Complete New Yorker” Gripes · OS X IRC Clients · 2006 CES Keynotes · Coverage of Google CES Keynote · - Week 39 (Jan 8 - 15, 2006)
Movie Typos · Reading “The Complete New Yorker” · The “Early Majority” · Most Hits Evar! · When Things Go Wrong, Who Do You Call? · Adobe Lightroom · Macworld 2006 Predictions from Kevin Rose · Macworld 2006 Keynote Coverage · Gosling Had A MacBook All This Time? · ExpressCard/34 Slot · Ooooooh! Slidy · Download Google Earth for OS X · The MacBook Cover · No Stickers · Macworld Boston 1997 · SunApple · Comparing Apples and Oranges · WMV Plugin for QT Player · MacWorld Boston 1997, Continued · Increased Readership · Three Choices · More Macgirls From Flickr · Some More Reasons to Switch · Uno: An Unified OS X Theme · Spheric Lounge · - Week 40 (Jan 16 - 23, 2006)
iMovie5 and iDVD5 Updates · Intel Mac Count on #macosx · Sun Founders Video · Dual i486 · My .emacs File For Carbon Emacs · O wget, Where Art Thou? · DVD Compressors · Apple is iPod · Eaton Centre Apple Store Coming · Why Macs Suck · Restructured The Journal A Bit · Why I Haven't Yet Upgraded to Tiger · Fake .Trashes · Something Better than URLs? · Temperature Monitor · - Week 41 (Jan 24 - 31, 2006)
Another Recent Convert · Slow iMac Sales · SizzlingKeys · Menumeters 1.3 Released · Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Herr Mozart · Finding Happiness · GUIdebook · Intel Mac Benchmarks · Speech Recognition · Five Simple Steps to Better Typography · Temperature Monitor · Carbon Emacs for Panther · Shiira ·
Part 11
- (Feb 1 - 8, 2006)
NeoOffice 1.2 Released · Firefox 1.5.0.1 Released · Googlenet is Born · Steve Is God · Spotlight: Great Idea, Poor Implementation · Behind The Scenes At The Powerbook Journal · 17 inch iMac G5 EOL · Marvels of Medicine · SpotMeta · GimpSHOP · 1 GB iPod Nano · Sidenote · Can A Computer Be Programmed to be Creative? · Environment Canada Weather Radar Widget · - (Feb 9 - 15, 2006)
Cool Effects · Images In Stickies · The Real Thing · Apple Movies · The Interim · Upgrade To Emacs 22 · Omni Outliner Annoyance · Happy Birthday, Darwin · Happy Birthday, Lincoln · DTV · iFixit · My Love · OS X TeX · OS 9 R.I.P. · - (Feb 16 - 22, 2006)
Powerpoint · Konfabulator API · Open Document Format · Surf With A Supermodel · HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATHILDE! · 15 in. Powerbook Phaseout Begins · 12 in. iBook? · Lacie Little Big Disk · This Old Commandline · iMovie Updated to 5.0.2 · Macbook Pro Pics · Mozilla Optimizations · iDVD Encoding · Jet Photo · iPod Wireless Headphones · iPods in Turin · Belstaff · 15 inch Powerbooks EOL · - (Feb 23 - 28, 2006)
Music Phones · Remembrall · An Apple A Day · Google Dashboard Widgets · Download Statusbar · One Billion Tunes · Mac Sightings · New Printer · Feb. 28th Rumour Summary · iPod Toons · Natalie Portman · Firefox 1.5.0.1 · Free Up HD Space · Nokia 7380 · The Macintosh Marketing Story: Fact and Fiction, 20 Years Later · Origami Project · Applestore Is Down · New Products · Applestore Online · “Rainbows End” ·
Part 12
- (Mar 1 - 8, 2006)
Thoughts on the iPod Hifi · Bonjour Googletalk · Dress Like Steve · Googlebot Mobile? · iTMS Gimmick · Ars Technica Reviews Macbook Pro · An Evening With Woz · Security Update 2006-001 · ATI Graphic Demos and Screensavers · The Pope Gets an iPod · Now Running 10.3.9 · Matt Groening Ad · iDVD Tips · DiskInventoryX · Applestore in Sherway Gardens · “All Marketers are Liars” · Rotate Your Powerbook · Leopard Finder · - (Mar 9 - 16, 2006)
No Vista EFI · Digital Archives · Penny Arcade Switch · One Year With Mathilde · Terminal Settings · DoubleCommand Startup · Google Design · Java 4K Challenge · PC Keybindings · Samsung Z5 MP3 Player · jlGUI · Battery Firmware Update · - (Mar 17 - 24, 2006)
OS X UI Designer · FontExplorerX 1.0 Released · Second-best Apple Ad · Windows XP on a Mac · Q Emulator · Shopping for a RAM Upgrade · Another Covert? · Left Headphone Channel Wonky · Audion Is Now Free · Google Finance · ourTunes · iTunes in France · iPhone Confirmed · Where Is The Press Release? · NetNewsWire Lite · Collected Essays · - (Mar 25 - 31, 2006)
Wardriving · IGS Twisted Screensaver · Photoshop Elements 4.0 Review · “Twenty Things I Hate About Mac OS X” · Markenzeichnen · iTunes In Concert · Rasterbator · FSEventer ·
Part 13
- (Apr 1 - 8)
I'm Switching Back · RAM Price Drop · Firestarter · Savory Spam Crescents · Things We Take for Granted · Boot Camp · iPatch · Parallels · Boot Camp Logo · Anime Characters · Key Bag · The Risks of Increased Popularity · - (Apr 9 - 17)
Dock Location · Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released · Easter Eggs · Gu Ge · Good Friday · Battery Firmware Update · No Audio From Right Headphone Jack · iCal Calendars · iPhoto Library Backup · Anti-theft Detection · C:\> DOS RUN · - (Apr 18 - 24)
Second Quarter Results · QTCoffee · The Crazy Ones, The Misfits, The Rebels · JewelToy · Google Pages · Timeout! Avoiding RSI · 17 in. MBP Announced · - (Apr 25 - 31)
Google Techtalks · Shrook · Busy · Briefly · ffmpegX · It's Over, Now My Work Begins · Google News Suggests · playsound · iPhoto Gallery
Part 14
- (May 1 - 8)
Earthview · Applestore Downtown · New Apple TV Ads · Official Eaton Centre Queue Information · NAB Demo Reel · Hebrew iPod · A Touch of Evil · Eaton Centre Applestore T-Shirt · Sigmund Jobs · - (May 9 - 16)
Bricksmith · XNU vs. Linux · Process LimitsSecurity Update 2006-003 · CSS Paradise · Revolution In the Valley · Movie Time · Inside AppleCare · Canadian Census · Bricksmith LEGO Abacus · Security Update Breaks SMARTReporter · Creative Sues Apple · AppleStore is Down— MacBooks · MacBook Fallout · - (May 17 - 24)RAW Images · Photoshop Elements 4 Review · Ooooh! Look! Shiny Object! · Checkpoint Charlie · Fear And Desire · Klosed Kernel · MacBook Count on #macosx · NYC AppleStore · Man Handler · Spewcifically · MacBook Reviews and Benchmarks · MacBook Dissection · Idle Temperature · Intel Stock · The MacBook Pro is NOT a Laptop · Thermal Paste · 2001 Themed Icons · Finder/Terminal Interactions · iPod/iTunes Usage Stats · Victoria Day · Another Macbook Review · New Favicon · Mac OS X Internals · Alternate Reality · Flash Drives · Google Video Ads · 100 Dollar Laptop Protype · USB Turntable ·
- (May 25 - 31)
Screensavers · Logs · Tap · Bump! · Nike+iPod · The Thermal Paste Question · Mac Pro · Neom's Macbook Blog · Screen Polarizer · MacBook EFI · Blind Search · JPod · Dr. Who
Part 15
- (Jun 1 - 8)
Recycle Old Computers · Gisèle Bündchen · Ordinary Sunday · Apostasy · Google Video Player · ?? · - (Jun 9 - 16)The Beautiful Game · Google Browser Sync · DockArt · DRM Protest At Apple Stores · Google Hires Douglas Bowman · iTunes Visualizers · Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me · New Versions of Google Earth and SketchUp · Login Hooks · iTunes Alarm · No More Fun ·
- (Jun 17 - 23)
Quinn · A Review of “Architecture: World's Greatest Buildings” · What's Next · Malebolge · Reducing Downtime · Gminesweeper · Free Utils · Share Your Google Calendar · OS X Feedback · Going Native · Backlight Visualiser · Natalie Portman on Sesame Street · Podcast Reminders · Google Sitemaps · NCC 1706 · - (Jun 24 - 31)Edge of Outside · On Vacation · Font Design · Automated Revision Control · MD5SUM · American Apparel Models · Is That A MacBook? · Configuring DocType · Quicktime 7.1.2 Update · Google Web Toolkit Intro · Google Checkout Debuts · Impressive Resolution
Part 16
- (Jul 1 - 8)
· OS X Book Is Out! · Brazil is Out! · New MP3 Player Stats Out! · Google Video With Commercials · OS X Book Ordered · Google Earth KML Tutorial · Shields Up! · “Notebook” vs. “Laptop” · MusicGremlin · PB Decorations · Google Earth Weather · PowerBook Journal RSS Feed · OS X to Ubuntu · Laptop Desk · Seismac · Educational iMac · D-Vision · Call of Duty 2 Demo · Free The Widgets · SystemLoad · Blackshades · - (Jul 9 - 16)Microsoft MP3 Player · This Old Computer · MRAM · Call of Duty 2 Demo Review · Tilt-shift Photography · Once and Future King ·
- (Jul 17 - 24)
OS X Book Ships! · OS X Book Arrives! · Biometric Lacie Drive Review · Channel Frederator · World eBook Fair · Disgusting Dessert · Shopping at Roots · Bluetooth MightyMouse · - (Jul 25 - 31)
AMD buys ATI · “Mac OS X Internals” Chapter 1 Review · iFlip · Origins of Google Earth · Solaris10 on an Ultra10 · Pianissimo · Scorched Earth 3D
Part 17
- (Aug 1 - 8)
· DoDim · “Mac OS X Internals” Chapter 2 Review · Slacking Off · Security Update 2006-004 · Hurricane Katrina Recognition Award · Forever Data · Quake 4 Demo is Out! · Nature vs. Nurture · WWDC Bingo · WWDC Summary · Mac OS Forge · DTrace now in Leopard · - (Aug 9 - 16)
Rock, Paper and Scissors · RAM Disk · “Mac OS X Internals” Chapter 3 & 4 Review · Creating an Ad hoc Network · A Macbook in the Family · Free Google Wifi · - (Aug 17 - 24)Time Machine · Macbook First Impressions · Playbook · “Mac OS X Internals” Chapter 5 Review · Leopard Screenshots · Extract Audio from DVD · Poincaré Conjecture · Creative Settlement · Yet Another Apple Battery Recall · Amazon S3 ·
- (Aug 27 - 31)
The Complete New Yorker Portable Hard Drive · New Mac Ads · AppleStore At Sherway Gardens · Viewing Free Content From The U.S. iTunes Store · Ancient Tomes · My First AppleStore Visit
Part 18
- (Sep 1 - 8)
Radiant Core does Firefox 2 UI · Call of Duty 2 Review (Part 1) · Sherway Gardens Applestore Photos · New Macs Announced · It's Friday · Call of Duty 2 Review (Part 2) · Latest Trailers (Featuring Macs) · - (Sep 9 - 16)Light-emitting T-shirts · “It's Showtime” · Gapless Playback · New Nano Ad · October Shuffle · Second Battery Exchange (The Saga) · “It's Showtime” Apple Presentation Video · LED Spectrum Analyzer Visualiser for iTunes · R.I.P. <lilo> · Using a PC-formatted iPod on a Mac ·
- (Sep 17 - 24)
Sony VAIO N-Series · AssistiveWare · Weekly Catchup · One Web Day · Twisted Melon · Forthcoming DVDs · Choosing a Quotation · zfs: Pros and Cons Summarized · iTS Cover-Art · UgliTunes 7 · Banshee · FileVault · Synthetic Movies · Style · - (Sep 25 - 30)
Elgato EyeTV Reviewed · Sony eBook Reader · PyQTSequence · Startrek Sale on Amazon.ca · iTunes 7.0.1 on XP · Emacs.app Alpha Version · “Mac OS X Internals” Chapter 6 Review · Made Some New Icons · iCal Typo · Disabling the GUI
Part 19
- (Oct 1 - 8)
· Top 10 Open Source OS X Apps · Cocoa Widgets Are Default on the Trunk · Apple In Greece · 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine · 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics · Yahoo! Hackday 2006 Photos · Shuffle2 Not Gapless? · Another Good Quote · Auf Wiedersehen, Vienna · Call of Duty 2 Review Part 3 · - (Oct 9 - 16)
Nokia Aeon · Googletube · Official Google Mac Blog · Lucky 7 · Three New Mac Ads · Reiser Arrested · Monster Week · (PRODUCT)RED · Newsweek Interviews Jobs · No Such Luck · Shuffle2 Order Cancelled · - (Oct 17 - 24)
Project Blackbox · Rhymes with... · Apple is 4th in Domestic PC Sales · Yak Shaving · Advanced Typography With Mac OS X Tiger · Office for Mac · F4Q06 (Qtr End 9/30/06) Earnings Call Transcript · FOUC · Windows Virus on the iPod · 3D-Xplor · - (Oct 25 - 31)
Fashion · Redwire Jeans · Ordered Elgato EyeTV Hybrid · EyeTV Shipped · Getting a Mac Mini for Work · Apple Store Opened in Laval, Quebec · EyeTV Arrived · Torchwood · $100 Laptop Update · Shuffle2 Delayed Even More · DST Ends · Apple Executive Applecare> · Facial Hair · Crochet Dress
Part 20
- (Nov 1 - 30)
Mac Mini Progress Report · iPod Shuffle2 Shipped · Usability/Disability: Coloured LED Indicators · Macupdates · Anime/Manga on Sale at Amazon.ca · Netdiver: Flash Animations · U.S. Election Results · Transit of Venus · Image Editor · Tor · - Sleepytime Blues · Edmund Fitzgerald · Comparing Beethoven to Eminem and 50 Cent · Flash Photography · Java GPL'd · Feed43 is Down · Escher Screensaver · Elections · Google TechTalk: Doug Lenat · mathilde Freeze ·
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October 2001:
iPod · Sun Travel Mug · Wingnuts ·
ShavingFlogging the Gnu · The PS3 Frenzy · Paul Mauriat, R.I.P · Keynote is the King · “Put Some Music On” · Robert Altman, R.I.P. · Microsoft PC · - If There Is No God · Google TechTalk: Second Life & User Experieae · I *heart* Robots · Resize An HFS+ Partition · Altman to Apple · Philippe Noiret, R.I.P. · Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz · Star Wars Chess Set · “Pump Dreams” · There's More · New Mac Ads · Praise · Captain Obvious · SSH Shortcuts
Part 21
- (Dec. 1 - 31, 2006)
Google Toilets · FastIcns · “Thinking with Type” · Disco is Stupid · Caution: Using zip for Backups may be Hazardous to Recovery · “Now is the winter of our discontent” · Google TechTalk: A New Way to look at Networking · Apple Backup vs. Carbon Copy Cloner · Google Techtalk: Apple Automator · December 8 · - December Blues · December Blues: VW Ad · iTunes Sales Drop and so, on to the Next Big Thing · Video Codec Comparison · The Archimedes Palimpsest · Google TechTalk: The Graphing Calculator Story · December Blues: HP Ad · Al Shugart, R.I.P. · December Blues: Microsoft Ad · Flogging the Gnu Logo Sketch · December Blues: Powerbook Ad · Mezzoblue Redesign · Axis of Ævil · FlightGear · Le Cinéma · December Blues: BoA Ad ·
- New Google Earth 4 Beta Released · I am Time Magazine's Person of the Year · December Blues: iLife Ad · iPhone Released · Let it Snow · Call Automator Actions from the Shell · Black Lagoon · DIN 1451 to FE-Schrift · ZFS on Leopard · VMware: Fusion · Shuffle2 Shortcoming · Opening Bids · Hipster PDA · Customize Trash Icons · Recent Movies ·
- HuginOSX and myDVDEdit · Discovery Channel: iPod · STS 116 · Sony eBook Reader Ad · Seymour Papert in a Coma · Heavenly Bodies · “Suicide is Painless” · Blurker · Slowtunes · The Powerbook Family · Dell Support vs. AppleCare · The Cinema Channel · Saddam Hussein, R.I.P. · Woman on Train · Shooting “Casino Royale” · RSS Feed Tweak
Part 22
- (Jan. 1 - 31, 2007)
Google Goes to Manhattan · IMDb Data · “Homer Goes to College” · View from the Mountain · Smiles and Wows— 17 in. Mac Book Pro · The Magic Number: One Million Households · Two-player Pong · Macworld 2007 · - MWSF2007 · Apple has Won · Would You Buy a Phone From This Man? · Video of the MacTablet · Tiger Multi-session CDs · Fortress Programming Language · The Nay Sayers · Career Day · More Apple Gaga · Cupertino Applestore · MacBraniac Challenge · PiX · Natalie Portman · Money, Money · netPong · MWSF2007 Google Campout Diary
Part 23
- (Feb. 1 - 28, 2007)
Open Options · Panther DST Patch Applied · Black and White Photography · Mac Ad · Google Sketchup 6 Review · Jim Gray is Still Missing · Insect Lab · VelaTerra · New Mac Ad: Security · Emacsclient.app · Yahoo! Pipes · Rolling Stone Comments on Apple · Unix Tips for OS X · Sunday at the Village Vanguard · Bushi No Ichibun · George Sadek, R.I.P. · DiVA · Knock, Knock. Who's There? Google. · Searching for the Right Word · UK “Get A Mac” Ads · A Review of HuginOSX: Panorama Generator · iSwimsuit · Solaris DST Check · Leopard Seeks UNIX Certification · ToyViewer Review · Etch-A-Sketch On A Mac? · Tremulous OS X · InterPlaNET · “Waiting on the Weather”, The Oscas · Google Visits Apple · iPhone: Hello Ad · Emacs: The Hidden Fortress
Part 24
- (Mar. 1 - 31, 2007) · CoD2 Update · Native OS X WiFi Exploit: The Full Story · Interview with a Mac OS X Zero-Day Patcher · New VMware Beta · Sony eBook Reader Support · iTunes 7.1 Released · “Paprika” Trailer · Most-Admired Companies · Kensington Contour Terrain Messenger Bag · Jean Baudrillard, R.I.P. · Aging · Biophony · MyMahj · Dear Steve, Please Drop DRM. Signed, FSF · Laptop Drive with Native Encryption · “Dell and Linux” · Tiger 10.4.9 Update · Firefox: Disable “Server not found” page · iTunes 7.1.1 Released · Aesthetics of Reading · “The Merchant of Cupertino” · Ian Murdock Now at Sun · Bluetooth Proximity Detection · Apple TV Finally Ships · Apple Marketing · www.movies.now · LEGO Café Corner · Kuler · Identifont · NSA · Star Wars: Empire at War Demo · 2006 Youtube Awards · Good Flash · Symbol Caddy, Easy Envelopes & Usability · iPhone Availability · “Switching My Mother to the Mac”
Part 25(April)
- (Apr. 1 - 30, 2007) · Command-line "Now Playing" · "Now Playing" command for ERC · 8 Cores · Smartphone OS Distribution · Easter Snow · Chocolate · Xvid now supported on QT · “Empires of the Word” · Stradivarius in the Subway: Bell as a Busker · More Switchers · 100M iPods, No Competition · Tux Deluxe · AppleTV Ad and "Ocean's 13" trailer · Battlestar Galactica, Season 1 · Leopard will be Late · CocoThumbX: DIY Icons · Animated Desktop Screensaver · Booksmart: DIY Books · Edge Detect: iMovie Plugin · Reading Comprehension · Helen of Troy · A Zoomed Pointer is Never Watched · Inventions · The Stable Marriage Problem · Suggest Firefox Improvements · Quicktime Exploit · The Journal Resumes · Blue Moon
Part 26(May)
- (May. 1 - 31, 2007) · Webby Awards · Native Open Office on Mac · Installed Photoshop Elements 4 · There Once was a Program Called Chandler · And the award for the most improved program goes to... · "Microsoft is Dead" · Nokia · Nocturne · Apple Shareholders Meeting · Mobile Java · NASA World Wind Java API · "Shaping the Future" · Scratch: A Programming Language for Children · Photo Drop Widget · Google (Experimental) · Geocaching Circa 1977 · "Human Consequences of the Exploration of Space" · "2001" Shrine · Ive Wins National Design Award · "Language was the companion of empire" · Amazon.ca Search gives Poor Results · Google Site-local Searches are Grouped · Subtitles, War and Peace · The Future of Google · VirtualBox · "The First World War", by John Keegan
Part 27(June)
- (June 1 - 30, 2007) · Surface, Foleo · New Toys · D-Day: June 29th · Lala.com · elf's Bookshelf · WWDC 2007 Preview · Bad Taste · Migrating from HFS+ to ZFS · WWDC 2007 Live · New Kodak Image Sensors · 2007 MacTech 25 · ATP Toughdrive 1GB USB Key · iPhone Frenzy Builds · iPhone Hits & Misses · Panorama · iPhone: T-6 Days · Ignis Fatui · iPhone: T-4 Days · VMware Video Contest · A Good Story · iPhone D-Day · iPhone Surgery
Part 28(July)
- (July 1 - 31, 2007)
· 2G, 3G, GPRS, CDMA, GSM, W-CDMA, UMTS, WTF? · The Competition · The iPhone is not Golden · The iPhone is not a Number · A Computer for My Parents · iPhone Bug Report · iPhoneDevCamp · Laptop in Bed · Die Hard Mac · Book Review: Zero · LG Touch Me MP3 player · Upsidedown · Inventing the Future · PosteRazor · Items We Carry · Third Quarter Earnings Report · Blade Runner: Final Cut · AJAX Tutorials from Google · Damn Spam · Surprises
Part 29(August)
- (August 1 - 30, 2007)
· New "something" · gPhone · Apple's Product Cycle · Quake Zero · Hugo Nominees · Mac Buyer's Guide · Ultrathin Is In · Zero Downtime · Monthly Google Rant · They Might Be Giants · I Hate Adobe† · Scorsese and Allen · True Story · Cuppa · Book Review: "The Emergence of Probability" · Mac vs. PC · Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet · Before and After · Forbidden Experiment · Internet Killed the Video Star · Aristotle was wrong! · Book Design · TextEdit Icon · Mini Printing Problems
Part 30(September)
- (September 1 - 30, 2007)
· Book Review: "God's Secretaries" · Tomorrow: Touch-screen iPods (99.9% likely) · Foleo, R.I.P. · Would you like to touch my iPod? · Origins of the Species · "Get A Mac" ads win Effie · Before and After: Form Design · iTunes Temp Files · Book Review: "Before and After Page Design" · Plastic Surgery · "Go ahead, mac my day" · iPod Touch Surgery · Seven Shortcomings about iTunes · Always Restore Firefox Sessions · iPod Reviews · The Big Apple · Powerset: The new game in town · The Once and Future Music Industry · More Ads · New Game in Town II · Parity · Parity II
Part 31(October)
- (October 1 - 31, 2007)
· Anniversaries · Mac Chick: Mandy Amano · Parity III · Ad: Olivetti · Touch Pads · This is an Ex-Emacs · Nobel Prize: Medicine · Faro · Nobel Prize: Physics · IPv4 Address Space · Mobile Mozilla · Peter Ahé: Software Delivery · Catch-phrase · Nobel Prizes: Chemistry, Literature, Peace · Message in a Cup · Mac vs. PC c. 1996 · Songbird · Missouri Macs · Firefox 2.0.0.8 · Minsky MIT AI Lecture · Sun Ultra 24 Workstation · Still no iPhone in Canada · Photo: Toronto Skyline at Night · Extreme Closeup: The Last Supper · Lineup for Leopard in Toronto · Unixersal Translator
Part 32(November)
- (November 1 - 30, 2007)
· Keeping Balance in the Universe · Vax Barcelona · Letter from Edinburgh · Leopard NFS · Considering Carnegie · Screensaver: Anemona · Quake Wars PC Demo Comments · Widget: Sunclock · Scarfs · iPhone Cost in Canada · "The Ignition is on the Left" · Browser/OS Site Statistics · Android · Ordered my OLPC Laptop · Vimeo: HD Video · Big Bang Theory · DTrace Intro · Updates: Panther, Tiger, Leopard · A Day at the Races · Flash Drives · Screensaver: Filigree · Kindle · RMS Rebuttal · Fossa · Geoff Arnold: Kindle First Impressions · Last Exit to Nowhere · Periodic Table of Elements Shower Curtain · MSG Mail · World Wide Parrot · Applestore: Free Shipping, Engraving and Gift-wrap-- Today Only! · Eco Location · Intel Developer Tools for Leopard
Part 33(December)
- (December 1 - 31, 2007)
· Campaign Logo Analysis · Campaign Stops · Pynchon · "My Fair Emacsia" · Wii + MacBook Pro + Dome · Ultra-portable Mac Rumours · The Garden Path · DMCA.ca · Let it Snow · Chipmunk BASIC · Yonge and Queen · Ludwig von Brahms · Google Grand Prix · "The Other Side" · That Settles It · XKCD At Google · Saving Graces · "Twilight of the Books" · M-x RememberAll · OLPC Journal Feed · The GPL · Another Mac at Sun · Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection · 186 Days · Old Cash Cows are Dead
Part 34(January 2008)
- (January 1 - 31, 2008)
· Euphemisms · Double-walled Mugs · Jobs on Rand · Google Grows Up · Macworld 2008 Bingo Card · Country Codes Poster · NetNewsWire is Free · Blonde Portman · Digital Storage Tax · Macbook Air · My First iTunes Purchase · All Things Seen and Unseen · New Version of Carbon Emacs · AI Suicides · Book Review: "Legacy of Ashes" · Emacs Locale · Rules of Sysadmins · HIG Guidelines · Great Ads · Robert Capa: Lost Negatives · Red Rocket
Part 35(February 2008)
- (February 1 - 28, 2008)
· Macbook Air Surgery · "I, There's the Point" · Bose MusicMonitor Computer Speakers · A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down · Seminar: "Sub-Primes and Supersolutions" · iPhoto Photobooks and Calendars on Sale · Submarine Cables · Aftermath · Parity IV · Wounds of Destruction · World Press Photo 2008 Winners · Love, etc. · "Experiments in Ethics" · Microsoft Loves Danger · ManilaMac · R.I.P: HD-DVD · J. Crew · Lunar Eclipse · The Oscars · Shuffle Along · How Nerds Destroy the World · Surprises
Part 36(March 2008)
- (March 1 - 31, 2008)
· Coldboot and Scrape · Delicious Library 2.0 · Scarlett and Natalie · Friendly Neighbourhood Support · Toronto Photobook · Rendezvous with Rama · Abuse of Privileges · Professor Fizzwizzle · Visitor Stats · Nobody* Ever Got Mugged for a Zune · Toronto Photobook · Graphical Mac Apps · St. Patrick's Emacs · "Geek Love" · Arthur C. Clarke, R.I.P. · March · Apple Preserves · Apple History: GUI Interfaces · Final Thoughts · Space Elevator · Book Review: "Ventus" · Lean Centenary · Emacs Usability · Ordinarily · The Bleedin' Obvious · Nano Skins · The Apple Mystique · Emacs Defaults · "The Core of Apple's Success"
Part 37(April 2008)
- (April 1 - 30, 2008)
· Foolery · There was a Time... · iPhone Sighting · Hello Kitty! Emacs Colortheme · Love and Books · Bookmarks are Obsolete · Mobile Phones · Mac@IBM · "U" R Invalid · Tools of the TeXperts
Part 38(May, June 2008)
- (May & June, 2008)
· The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit · Page Up · Happy Birthday, Spam · Risks of Stupidity · Coding C With Emacs · A Web-based Emacs · $45 credit for Canadian iPods bought pre-2004 · The Jesus Laptop · Ikea: Then and Now · Cinema Verité · XO · Automatic Tags · Explosive Reflected · XP on XO · #emacs as NY · Yet Another Mac Mini · Internet Map · "Electric Computers" · Improper Advances · Mars Orbiter Photographs Phoenix Lander... · Macs in Magazines · The Secret Army Grows · Book Review: "The Innovator's Dilemma" · WWDC 2008 Preview · What about FF3 for Panther? · iPhone 3G · Dennis Ritchie, 404 · Slideshow · From Fritz's "Metropolis" to Pitt's iPhone · Bienvenue à Montréal · Book Review: "Flaubert's Parrot" · Kerning and Ligatures in Firefox 3 · No Answers for Movie Fans · Slideshow: Giant Mushroom · On the Importance of Testing · Emacs T-shirt Logo · iPhone Plan Rates for Canada · Jolly Roger