My Macinations

Yet another mac user’s blog

Browsing Posts published in February, 2008

Now that HD-DVD has officially lost the HD format battle, and Blu-Ray has emerged the victor, many Mac sites are speculating that Apple will soon implement Blu-Ray playback support into its system and start selling Blu-Ray drives in its computers. I’m not sure Apple will implement Blu-ray playback into OS X any time soon. One [...]

After a long and hard service for 14 years, my LaserWriter Select 360 died today They sure made them durable in those days. I bought the printer in 1994 for $2300 Canadian and it’s been working every day ever since (about 5 days a week). Daily print run of about 15 pages minimum. That’s 50,000 [...]

With Leopard 10.5.1, Apple’s developers changed the default status of html files downloaded from the internet from ‘safe’ to ‘Unsafe’. While this may make sense from a security standpoint, for somebody like me that processes hundreds of html files downloaded every day, it’s a big annoyance. I filed a bug with Apple, asking for a [...]

It’s now February 4th, 2008 and the iPhone has been out in the US for more than seven months already. Here in Canada, there is no mention of it yet. Not even rumours that it could be coming any time soon. I believe it will be a very long time before Canadians could buy an [...]