Are we buying a new computer or what?

Posted by Oli  @  12:42 PM · 14 December  to   Apple · Life

After the price craziness with the Apple PowerMac G5/1.8 model, and it’s replacement with a G5/1.8 dual model, I’m now holding off again for more anticipated price drops in January. I can justify this with my waiting for a new line of (cheaper, G5-complementing) LCD monitors, but all this waiting is getting silly! I hope we can buy the new computer soon :-)

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Computer prices going … up?

Posted by Oli  @  11:55 AM · 07 November  to   Apple

I want to buy a new Apple G5 computer, but there’s something very strange happening to the prices. In the last two weeks discount company prices have been going up. Now I feel like I can’t buy, because it used to be cheaper. Argh!

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Capturing a Window in Mac OS X

Posted by Oli  @   2:36 PM · 11 September  to   Apple

I finally worked out how to capture a window as a screen shot; Command Shift - 4 then Space. I’ve also listed all the other Mac OS X screen capture keyboard shortcuts.

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Extra Safari Features; HetimaSafariHackEX

Posted by Oli  @   2:30 AM · 08 September  to   Apple · The ‘Net

I’ve found a great Safari enhancement called HetimaSafariHackEX. It adds a new menu allowing you to quickly change your default charset (great for surfing Japanese pages when your default charset isn’t Shift-JIS). It also adds bookmark title searching, and (very) basic code colouring to View Source. It’s good!

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Apple in the Music Selling business, online

Posted by Oli  @   9:36 AM · 29 April  to   Apple

I’m impressed that Apple has led the industry in offering easy and legal music downloads. I’m surprised that no one has done it sooner. Given it’s US-only, I can’t try it out, but it certainly looks like it’ll break…

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Fax or all-in-one Home Office?

Posted by Oli  @   9:45 AM · 16 March  to   Apple · Japan

Internet, why has thou forsaken me?? I’m in a big dilemma about whether to buy a basic monochrome fax (like a Sharp Fappy - Fax makes it happy) or a Brother MyMio (a colour fax/inkjet/scanner/photocopier that Miwa insists on…

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Pismo Battery Issues

Posted by Oli  @   8:53 AM · 14 March  to   Apple · Unix

I’ve seen my battery life in my Apple Powerbook Pismo drop quite a bit in the three years I’ve had it. I always hoped it was the increasing system and hardware specs yet feared it was the battery’s slow…

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File Sharing and IM/Chat

Posted by Oli  @   9:22 AM · 20 February  to   Apple · The ‘Net

Miwa’s birthday! Woop. I heard about an interesting program (thanks Gios) - iSwipe. It’s a general multi-protocol download app for Macs compatible with: WWW, FTP, Hotline, Napster, OpenNapster, Gnutella, FastTrack and Carracho(*) networks, and soon the OpenFT network. The way…

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