Ubuntu 6.10 on my PowerBook
My PowerBook has been continually crashing in OS X. As a last ditch attempt at salvaging it (or proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hardware is bad), I'm running the PowerPC version of Ubuntu on it....
Category: Mac
Another day, another 3 PowerBook crashes
Another day, another 3 PowerBook crashes, originally uploaded by msabramo. You know things are pretty bad, when I'm actually contemplating switching to a Windows laptop... :-)...
Vienna: Freeware RSS/Atom newsreader for OS X
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download....
Atari800MacX
A few times in the past few days at work, at lunch a few of us were reminiscing about our old 8-bit Ataris and some of the old games. I have a fondness for those Atari machines as that's where I first learned to program (you can...
Getting FLAC
After a coworker mentioned it, I decided to rip all of our CDs to FLAC so that we'll have perfect copies and can always transcode to the latest file formats. Last night I ripped a few CDs with dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)....
Quicksilver: Cmd+Escape
Just stumbled upon a gem from 43folders. Cmd+Escape lets you send the current selection to Quicksilver. So I can highlight a file in Finder, hit Cmd+Escape, and then have all Quicksilver's actions at my disposal....
PowerBook overtemp
Lately, my PowerBook has become narcoleptic. It goes to sleep even when it's plugged in and I've been using it actively. Pressing a key usually wakes it up right away but not always. I asked about this today on a Mac users'...