Category Archives: osx

R.I.P. Monk

Winter is upon us and it’s traditionally the season to start watching new Monk episodes. Time to buy a couple of new episode for the Apple TV and fill up the brand spanking new iPod Touch. Easy. Bring up iTunes, go to the iTunes Music store, search for “Monk”. Whoopsi, no more Monk. NBC pulled [...]

Best selling software not released yet

While Leopard, the next version of OS X won’t be released until October, it’s already the best selling software item on Amazon. Microsoft Vista on the other hand ranks #62, right below, ahem, Ubuntu the popular Linux distro you can download for free. Oh the irony.

Microsoft free: 3 year mark, no jitters

It just occurred to me that it’s been 3 years since I decided to move away from Microsoft Windows and switched to using a Mac exclusively. I started with a tiny 12″ PowerBook that performed wonders and now have experienced a Mac mini, the 15″ PowerBook, the iMac G4 and the latest Intel core duo [...]

Look Ma, no Windows!

Imagine running all your existing Windows software without needing Microsoft Windows OS. The Wine project has been trying to do just that with good success. Wine provides a complete open-source rewrite of the Windows api. While this has been used successfully to run Windows applications on top of Linux, it’s been done with marginal success [...]