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Category: Apple

Pah! Out with the Mac! Aug 02. 055

Hoorah, after having to suffer a month as a ‘new media’ type working on a Apple Mac here at Bite CP I took delivery on Friday of a shiny new Dell PC. Now. I’ll be the first to admit that I kinda fancied the idea of working on a Mac. After all OSX is sooooo sexy, it simply blows XP away.

But, and this is the big one. I think it’s true to say that more than 90% of web users are PC based. So, why on earth would I go to all this effort to make life that much harder for myself. Testing, testing, testing… it’s all about the testing. When you have to deal with the likes of Internet Exploder it’s so much easier to be on a PC. So, it’s back to what I know best… where regardless of the annoyances I feel comfortable and warm.

The Mac is still there for testing on Safari (Not that is misbehaves that much) but beyond that my short lived time as a Mac user has come to and end.

Tagged: Apple

Mac newbie seeks Mac guru for short term relationship Jul 04. 0510

On Friday I finished up at Mirashade and today was my first day at my new place, Bite CP.

The most significant change for me is that at Bite right now I’m using a Mac, I think it’s a dual G5 with about 1.5Gb of RAM, so not bad by any stretch of the imagination. However… as a Mac ‘OSX’ newbie I could really do with some tips. I’ve already sussed the whole ‘Exposé’ thing but I really need some more tricks up my sleeve if I’m going to make passers by go ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’ as I work my magic (hmm).

Please help me. Tell me about the great shortcuts you use everyday, the software you just cannot live without for web development, which IM and Mail clients you use and finally… is it tricky to set up an IMAP server? Hmm… maybe that’s one for another day.

Tagged: Apple, Technology
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