Those of you in the Vancouver area can participate in the fight against breast cancer by donating to and/or participating in the 2006 Run for the Cure. Rebecca over at Miss604 is collecting donations for the run which she and her husband are participating in this Sunday.
On a related note TELUS‘ national Day of […]
Archive for September, 2006
Run for the Cure - October 1st
Published September 29th, 2006 in Blogging, Community, Miscellany and News. 0 Comments
DIY Music - Garage Band & MacOS X
Published September 25th, 2006 in Open Source and Podcasting. 0 CommentsI was messing around with the new MacBook last night and decided to take a shot at playing with GarageBand, Apple’s music mixing & recording program that ships with iLife ‘06. At first glance GarageBand appears to be a fairly basic mixing program, allowing you to take samples and loops from its (relatively […]
Well its been a few days now using the new MacBook, and this is the first Blog post using said MacBook. As I mentioned in the last post, the look and feel of OS X is unbelievably polished. The transitions between windows, screen savers and other views (like Front Row) are seamless […]
Well the beast finally arrived! I’d like to think it was my scathing review of Apple’s customer service from earlier this month, but I highly doubt that Steve Jobs is an avid reader.
Well having had the chance to play with this new machine for only a couple of hours, I have to say […]
Though I’m super-excited about my new MacBook I can’t say I’m very impressed with Apple’s honesty with regards to shipping dates.
Their website advertises a shipping date of 5-7 business days. When I ordered the laptop they gave me a shipping date 8 days out. I could understand that being back-to-school time and all, but […]
Microsoft turns over a new leaf?
Published September 14th, 2006 in Open Source, Programming and Tech News. 0 Comments Subsequent to an article I posted back in April (Microsoft Joins the Free Software Revolution), Microsoft has made another step towards public good-citizenry by making its Open Specification Promise on August 13th. This declaration states that Microsoft will not assert certain patents that it presently holds, or will hold in the future, around Web Services.
In David […]
As some of you may already be aware I’ve recently become somewhat enamoured with one of Apple’s newest releases the Intel Core Duo based Macbook. I’ve never owned an apple computer, however in my recent search for a new notebook, several of the Macbooks new features really showed once again that Apple’s product designers […]
