I’ve often thought that any operating system without virtual desktops / workspaces is for all intents and purposes crippled. It seems that OS X is getting some in the next version, next spring.
It’s nice. I guess. It’s too bad Linux has had the same thing for over a decade. And in […]

I used iPhoto for a long while as my one and only method of fetching and storing all the photos from my digital camera. Eventually I started dumping wallpapers in iPhoto too, and any miscellaneous image file I needed to save for any reasons. There are some good and bad things about using […]

The sound card in the Mac Mini (first generation) sucks. It sucks very very hard. It has a single headphone jack for output, and even with headphones it’s not all that good. My other (PC) computer, on the other hand, has a nice Audigy 2 card with 5.1 outputs. I’d really […]

So I bought a new printer recently: a Canon PIXMA iP1600. I have a computer running dual-boot Windows XP and Gentoo, and a Mac Mini. Clearly the most logical setup is to put the printer on the Mac, and have my other computer share the printer; I just have to set up Gentoo […]

If you have a first-generation Mac Mini (as I do) and you haven’t dished out money for an extra (faster) hard drive, you’re probably suffering with terrible performance. They put some kind of slow laptop hard drive in there to keep the thing small, or whatever.
This is a good tip on how […]