Archive for April, 2006

A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac lab

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Software design engineer David Weiss gives a tour of Microsoft’s Mac lab. I’ve never seen so many Macs in one place.

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Metadata as a ‘filing system’

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Nice article about using metadata to to locate files instead of hierarchical folders.

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1984 Newsweek advertising insert

Friday, April 28th, 2006

“In the Fall of 1984 Apple published a 16-page (with fold-out) advertising insert in Newsweek magazine. For many, this was the first “up-close” experience with a Macintosh”

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Macs do Windows too

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Holly moley! Would you take a look at that. Macs do Windows too. Boot Camp is in Public Beta. So if you are using an Intel based Mac you can now run Windows XP natively. All you need to know is right here.

Boot Camp will be built into OS X 10.5. This is news indeed. Good news for those like myself who need access to both platforms as part of their job. It will be very interesting to see how this is received by hardcore Mac lovers.

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