All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
First, if you aren’t using Firefox as your primary browser, why not? It works better than Internet Explorer, it’s free, and it’s an easy download. It works on just about any computer, including PCs, Linux and the Mac. One measure of the maturity of Firefox is that I use it on a corporate intranet where … Read more
The G5 Powermac was introduced a couple of months before I bought my first ever Apple computer, a G4 Powerbook. I knew at the time that the G5 offered much greater performance, but the need for portability indicated that the Powerbook was a much better choice for me. In addition, I have a strong aversion … Read more
Though not supported by Apple or Motorola, it is possible to use the Motorola V600 mobile phone with an Apple computer, in this instance a 15″ Al PowerBook. This article describes setting up a bluetooth connection; no doubt using a USB cable would be different. While it’s true I had no problem finding info on … Read more
Fracture is a fractal screensaver for Mac OS X that creates some of the most fantastic, richly detailed fractal images I have ever seen. I don’t normally configure a screensaver; preferring instead to simply allow the energy-savings mode to kick in. Fracture creates such lovely images that I not only spent the $10 dollars to … Read more
I had another tip published at the MacOSXhints site. After CarbonCopyCloning my internal harddisk to an external firewire drive I noticed problems with my mail client, Firebird. It would sort of start, but the menus weren’t displayed correctly and neither were messages. Also, the only way to kill the program was from a terminal window. … Read more
Yesterday, in honor of his birthday, Google paid homage to Gaston Julia with the following banner image: Julia was a French mathematician who studied the iteration of polynomials and rational functions in the first third of the twentieth century. He is better known in modern times for his contributions to the science of fractal geometry … Read more
I have another tip published at macosxhints. The tip discusses iPhoto and iView usage scenarios. What’s kind of exciting is that the tip generated a few comments and they caused me to rethink my approach to managing photos and creating slideshows. Find out how you can use both iPhoto and iView without duplicating any of … Read more
Update: read the comments for a useful tip that makes my rant moot; thanks to Robert for sharing! First in an occasional series examining the few areas where Windows XP is arguably better than Mac OS X. I think that due to the generally superior Mac experience it’s all the more frustrating when one encounters … Read more
At first I was very disappointed that the new version of iPhoto still imports all the photos it is to manage. To iTunes, import means copy all the images to be managed to a folder you cannot specify. At first I thought “that’s completely unacceptable”. Like iTunes, I thought iPhoto should have an option that … Read more
I got another tip published at macosxhints! The site is an excellent resource for Mac owners, providing a wide variety of useful tips covering all manner of Mac topics. The tips are almost all submitted by readers of the site (and reviewed by the site owner before publishing), meaning there’s a high degree of hands-on … Read more