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MultiTouch Trackpad Gestures For The Rest Of Your Apps

Posted by Drew
April 12, 2008

If you’re one of the lucky ones to be able to get one of the latest MacBooks with Multi-Touch, you’ve probably asked the same question I have: “How can I get Firefox to use the swipe gesture to go forwards and backwards like Safari does?”
Answer: MultiClutch
This neat little Preference Pane addition will allow you to [...]

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MacBook Pro and Gaming

Posted by Drew
April 10, 2008

I used Boot Camp to make a little partition to dual boot into Windows XP SP3 on my MacBook Pro… and seeing how I have an nVidia 8600M video card with 256MB of dedicated memory in this little notebook, I thought I’d try out Day of Defeat: Source (I’m a semi-regular on a server there).
It [...]

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Cycle Your Batteries!

Posted by Drew
April 7, 2008

When buying portable products, I usually like to be (over) prepared for whatever situation may arrive.  When I bought my Panasonic HD camcorder, I also searched the web thoroughly and bought two extra batteries and a 16GB SD Card.  Plenty of power and plenty of space.
So I found myself looking at an extra battery for [...]

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iPhone Developer Program - not so great?

Posted by Drew
March 17, 2008

According to Zac Bowling the iPhone developer program, who many are being turned away from, isn’t all we would have hoped it to be. Or to use his own words; “total, laugh-out-loud, crap”.
Take a look at Zacs’ post for a list of some of the major limitations. To put some shortly:

No way to write [...]

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Getting Organized with Spaces

Posted by Drew
March 2, 2008

Upon getting my Mac, Spaces was one of the first things I checked out. I had tried Virtual Desktops in Windows and Linux, but never found them to be too terribly helpful. Not to mention I used a dual monitor setup with my Windows machine, so I felt I had plenty of room for things.
Despite [...]

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My Mac crashed on me, and I lived to tell about it.

Posted by Drew
December 7, 2007

I’ve been a Mac user now for 24 days; and I’m loving it. I’ve been anxious to write several blog posts about the highlights of my experience in switching to a Mac + PC workstation. I have several stickies on my desktop with notes about what to include in these blog posts; and to be [...]