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1.5GB for a Printer Driver???

Before I start blogging about OSX Leopard itself, I have to voice one short rant: During the installation (I opted for a fresh install rather than an upgrade), I selected "Customize", and I'm sure glad I did. It turns out that the default installation includes all printer drivers....

October 28, 2007 · 3 min · 452 words · DigitalHobbit

Boot Camp

A few days ago, I broke down and committed blasphemy: I installed Boot Camp and Windows XP on my MacBook Pro....

October 22, 2007 · 2 min · 328 words · DigitalHobbit

Camino 1.5

Earlier this month, version 1.5 of the OSX Camino browser was released. Camino is based on the same Mozilla rendering engine as Firefox, but unlike Firefox, Camino behaves much more like a native OSX application, without a lot of the overhead (such as the XUL user interface) that Firefox brings with it. Ever since I started using the Mac, I've never been a big fan of Safari....

June 16, 2007 · 4 min · 684 words · DigitalHobbit

Setting up a virgin Mac

About half a year ago, I started using an old PowerBook at work. Shortly afterwards, I was hooked and bought a MacBook for my wife. Now I finally bought a Mac for myself: a shiny, nice MacBook Pro. One of the great things about the Mac is that it is highly usable right out of the box....

January 31, 2007 · 3 min · 545 words · DigitalHobbit

Setting up a virgin Mac, part 2 (Rails dev tools)

As I promised, here is the second part of my notes on setting up a new Mac. This time I will focus on development tools for Ruby on Rails. MacPorts In theory, Ruby is already installed on the Mac....

January 31, 2007 · 4 min · 766 words · DigitalHobbit