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Only 4 shopping days left….

Posted on December 20th, 2007 by MyD0peyD0g

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Update from the Dark Side

Posted on November 11th, 2007 by MyD0peyD0g

Well I updated my mac to Leopard about a week ago and it was pretty painless despite all of the problems that I was hearing about on the Mac forums. I figured that since I didn’t have a ton of data to lose this would be the best time to try to do a simple upgrade (it took about an hour maybe). I backed up all of my documents and also my email and Firefox profile and proceeded with the upgrade which like I said went without a hitch.

All of my programs worked and all of my data was still intact when the computer restarted – the only program that didn’t work was Butler but since then an update was made available and it functions again.

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A Trip to the Dark Side

Posted on October 16th, 2007 by MyD0peyD0g

Well it happened …..

One week ago today my new MacBook arrived.

So begins my journey to the dark side 😉

Overall impressions after one week of use:

Very easy to set up right out of the box, connected to my wireless network effortlessly.

Easy to use – yes it’s different from a PC but it’s not that hard to learn.

Battery life is better than I expected ( about 3 – 4 hours surfing and work use).

The biggest challenge has been finding software that would do the things that I used to do on the PC –

I was able to download a mac version of Filezilla for my FTP needs so no change there.

NeoOffice – A mac version of OpenOffice so no change here either.

For my PDF needs I used Foxit reader pro on the PC but a mac version doesn’t exist yet but I did find a great alternative – Skim ( a free full featured pdf reader).

For my website work I needed something that just plain works ( I had been using Expression Web on the PC ) so after trying a couple I’ve settled on KompoZer for now which seems to work well.

More to follow later.

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