People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? (Rodney King on television pleading for peace, 1 May, 1992) Windows versus Mac OS X. Microsoft versus Apple. The Great Tech Divide is still prevalent in 2009 and the latest Microsoft ad campaign has once again ignited the fiery debate among geeks. [...]
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Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP, also known as LAMP, is probably the most cost-effective way of running big and small Internet applications, including this blog. I once mentioned I also have a “staging” blog, an exact replica of the live one, configured on my MacBook. Now that’s MAMP, i.e. Mac OS X instead [...]
Should you, I, or the average consumer buy a new computer in 2009? I’d say hold off on it. That is not just because of the rising prices of imported goods, particularly electronics; there are seismic shifts taking place in the world of computer hardware manufacturers and software developers right now. At the centre of [...]
Wrong. Right. Wrong. Right. There are reasons why I would never buy certain laptops with my own money – even if the economy is good and the local currency is exceptionally strong against the greenback. For people who: type with their ten fingers; use the keyboard to copy, cut, paste, save, select all, undo, find, [...]
In continuation of my earlier post regarding setting up a SharePoint lab with virtual machines, here I have put together a collection of awareness notes and best practices for dealing with virtual machines in general. When I say “in general,” I refer to the personal, experimental, or small-business setup for developers, engineers, and consultants who [...]
It’s now January 2009, and a statement like: The price of crude oil hits an all-time high of US$140 a barrel before it falls dramatically down to around US$40 by the end of the year. …would have been a hell of a new year prediction for this time last year. I am neither qualified nor [...]
I was going to write about earning a living as a programmer with a Mac. But as I started talking about how I got my refurbished MacBook just for an introduction, I totally digressed into a rather not-so-technical discussion of what a sensible thing it is to buy refurbished Macs. So I left it at [...]
It’s been just over three months since I switched back to the world of Apple Macintosh – for good – starting with this little black MacBook. I bought it second-hand (refurbished, to be exact) from the Apple Web site. In less than 24 hours of placing the order, two (2) muscled-up TNT Express guys turned [...]
When I became a Mac user in 2004 after being inspired by my former supervisor Jonathan, one of the most significant changes I had to adapt to was that I couldn’t use keypad arrows because Macs didn’t have them. The keypad was there, but the keys would only function as numbers unlike PC keyboards where [...]
Despite having read just a few days ago that Aussies are paying five times more for software, I got myself an upgrade licence for Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Mac after months of deliberation (literally). The problem I have with Photoshop, apart from the fact that I can’t live or work without it, is that: Photoshop [...]