My Macinations

Yet another mac user’s blog

Over the holidays, I received an iPod Touch as a gift, and let me tell you, that little sucker is extremely useful as an internet device. Keeping tabs on my sites where I could find Wifi is great. However, a couple of days ago, it stopped being able to access the internet through my home [...]

Everybody knows that Apple’s iPhone is coming to Canada, eventually. Most people and publications speculate about when this momentous event will happen. Today, few websites are excited about a blip that showed up on Apple’s site, and are extrapolating all kind of data from this blip. Personally, I’m not exactly interested in when the iPhone [...]

Yet another useful feature has been eliminated in Leopard. The audio controller that the Finder’s column view had for the preview pane when previewing audio files has been eliminated. Why? I don’t know. No logical explanation can come to mind. In Tiger, if you set your window’s view to the column view and point it [...]

I’ve been using Leopard as my only OS for 4+ days now. Here is a first report on where I’ve encountered the most problems. Safari: I spend a lot of time with Safari (can’t use any other browser as my main browser). It’s the only Apple application that I use so extensively. So far I’ve [...]

One of the ugly new interface “features” of Leopard is its translucent menu bar. In my opinion it’s ugly, distracting and serves absolutely no useful purpose. I have no clue why any sane person at Apple would want to implement it. There have been many complaints about it on the internet since Leopard reached people’s [...]