September 26, 2017

Switching from Windows to Mac OS – The Software

With my change in OS comes a change in desktop software, at least to a certain extent. There are plenty of apps with native Mac counterparts and in some cases, they’re better than the original. A standard set of software would be – an Office suite, video editor, screen capture tool, chat client, password manager, note taker and web editor. I now have a native Mac app for each one. For example, Microsoft Office was easily replaced with LibreOffice. Outlook was replaced by the built in Apple Mail. And OneNote was replaced with Outline. While Write replaced Word, I will be using Scrivener that I got a few years ago. Here is a short list of how it’s worked out so far. Word -> Scrivener Microsoft Office -> LibreOffice OneNote -> Outline Outlook -> Apple Mail Irfanview -> Pixelmator. MediaMonkey -> iTunes Notepad++ -> TextWrangler O&O DiskImage -> Time Machine This is the short list of the apps with native […]

September 25, 2017

Switching from Windows to Mac OS – The Hardware

Buying a Mac is actually a tricky affair. Because of the expense, my first thought was to build a Hackintosh. I love the idea of it, but it requires some specific hardware, some specific procedures and a bit more dedication to the cause than I’m willing to give. And, if I needed new hardware, I would rather get a real Mac and know full well it works. But where to start? Any machine would need to have at least 8 cores and 32GB of ram. That’s what I have now and anything less would be a step back. I also need to add quite a bit of hard drive space. That eliminates the Mac Mini. The iMac, especially the new one with 18 cores, meets the power criteria, but lacks the hard drive capacities and the price tag for that model is in the stratosphere. The MacBooks are nice, but it doesn’t have the cores or ram, and I’m not […]

February 13, 2015

Swooped in and grabbed a copy of Outline for Mac for $6.99

I’ve written many times of my fondness for OneNote and since work is almost exclusively Mac based, I’ve been looking for an alternative to use. Yes, I know there is OneNote for Mac, but have you used it? To put it bluntly, it’s a piece of crap. It’s slow, buggy and the requirement of hooking into Windows Live is an utter annoyance. Plus, like so many other Microsoft services, it just doesn’t work correctly. I have Outline on my iPad and it’s a great app. Now, Outline for Mac has dropped to $6.99 and I jumped at the chance to get a copy. Normally, Outline is $39.99, which I think is outrageously priced. Yes, it’s a good program, but let’s not get ridiculous with our pricing shall we? But hey, $6.99 is more than a fair price. The install footprint is extremely small with a 38MB download. This is a fraction of what it takes to install the latest version […]

October 1, 2014

So it’s time for a paradigm shift in the world of computers

So it’s time for a paradigm shift in the world of computers. In the past I’ve worked for companies that were Microsoft partners, that were Microsoft centric and some that were a mix. A previous web company did a lot of their dev work on Unix machines and even hosted sites on Unix servers, but they had a heavy mix of Windows machines and most of the desktops were Windows machines. Recently, I switched over to a new company and for the first time in my career, I’ll be exclusively using a Mac. They embrace Open Source and over the years have shifted further and further away from MS products. Today I was given a new MacBook Pro and it’s the only machine I’ll get. It’s the same type of machine everyone else in the office has. The only difference is some are MacBook Air while others are iMac computers. Oh my goodness, this is incredibly different for me. I’ve […]

June 1, 2013

A Quick Look Around SlimBrowser and a Trip on the SlimBoat

I’m not sure what started me on this path or how exactly I landed on the CNET page listing all the browsers, but someone I managed to discover and install SlimBrowser. It has turned out to be a good thing. For the past several years I’ve used Firefox. I jumped on board with version 2, the same time Microsoft decided that IE6 was so good it didn’t need updating. Firefox offered Tabs, plugins and slew of other features that made it truly awesome. I still love Firefox and use it everyday. But something intrigued me about SlimBrowser. It was the fact that so many features were built in, yet it was still so small. SlimBrowser has tabs, there is a SpeedDial like opening screen with the most frequently used pages listed, it has a built in Ad Blocker, it has a built in Pop Up Blocker, there is AutoFill and saving of passwords and there is an improved download manager, […]

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