The new 5.x version for Mac was way to Windows-craptastic-y… Gross steps backwards in user interface. Skype 2.8 is vastly better. Though the install image is getting trickier to find. Update: Apparently I am not the only one unhappy with the new interface: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/30/skype_5/
Tagged Skype, User InterfaceI am not sure exactly when this happened, but MobileMe mail spool finally supports server-side filtering; you can finally put some spam fighting rules into your web account so the spam does not get to your iPhone/iPad (the Mail.app client has always supported client-side filtering). This potentially fixes the problem where your Mac saw no [...]
HP needs to figure out what business they are in. On the one hand they appear to be trying to get out from under Microsoft’s thumb: HP CEO: WebOS on all our PCs in 2012 Yet, on the other hand their Server Blade iLO software group wants to bind HP customers to the use of [...]
Perhaps Apple ought to call it what it is; a consumer protection surcharge… Frankly, it if could keep me off annoying spam call/catalog/email lists by aggressive marketers like the Metropolitan Museum of New York’s gift shop; I’d be perfectly willing to pay 30% more to hide my identity from them and let me shop for [...]
Woo hoo! We have used for years Suunto Cobra dive computers when SCUBA diving, they are awesome, but they only connected to Windows software. Apparently a very geeky fellow decided he was so frustrated with Suunto ignoring many divers who are Mac users that he’d address the problem directly by writing his own software to [...]
During the summer of 1999 my friends and I all purchased the coolest laptop in the world, the lovely Fujitsu B142 Lifebook. I got many years of great use out of that tiny laptop until I had to upgrade to a bigger, faster machine. I am trying to restore my old B142 Lifebook for nostalgia [...]
Audio stopped working on my work-provided MacBookPro recently, and I was able to fix it by reading this thread and applying the suggestion (I used a coffee stirring stick/straw). http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3255575 Basically using my regular stereo headset confused the headphones/digital audio port into thinking I was connected for digital audio only.
Tagged digital audio out, Mac, MacBook ProSo the whole time we had no power and were exiled to a place with power and internet access and hot running water, we kept wondering… Is the power back on at our house yet? That question could only be answered this time by a drive out to our house to see in person. So [...]
There are some very interesting developments in the news regarding the Stuxnet virus. I confess that I mostly ignored this virus, like most computer viruses, when it came out as it appeared to impact only computers running the Windows operating system. It turns out I was wrong, it actually uses Windows to spread itself, but [...]
Tagged Computer Security, globalism, nuclear weapons, warA few weeks ago I decided to disable Adobe/Macromedia Flash on all my Macintosh computers. I am here to tell you I do NOT regret it at all, and now recommend it highly. Flash was an extremely useful extension for many years; it made it possible to view videos on the web without specialized software [...]
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