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mac: The most complete shortcut list I’ve found so far

usingmac.com has the most complete keyboard shortcuts list I’ve found so far.

Tags: apple, mac, MacRocks


link: Another list of Mac Software

Here is another source of software for the Mac: http://www.opensourcemac.org/

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Comments on another “ten good OS X apps”

Res IpsaBenson Varghese posts one of the popular lists: “Ten Free Mac OS X Programs that Make the PC to Mac Switch a Breeze”. His list is not the same as my list was the other day. And he covers some other areas. I’m a fairy recent switcher (a year or so by now) and [...]


Some companies just has the right attitude

Yesterday I was into an exciting discussion about why some companies can have a fan-club and others don’t. We talked about Google, Apple, Microsoft and IBM where the first two pretty much gets away with a lot of strange stuff but no matter what the latter two companies does they simply don’t appeal the tone-setting [...]


Usability: Two approaches - one needs a brain

The windows version allows the user to answer the question. The Mac solution don’t require the user to read the question.

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Another mac ad

I find these ads very amusing.

Tags: fun, mac, MacRocks, video


Can do, just works - why Macintosh keeps impressing me

Mixing simple with simple
Apple and mac software keeps fooling me. I commonly make the mistake that a simple (as in easy) user interface means a simple (as in non-feature-rich) software. First time I realised this was with the TextMate application which I dis-liked from the beginning but these days I have seen the light and [...]


Leopard aint that bad after all.

PC, yes, PC as in PC, PC Magazine tested operating systems. Guess which one they picked as the best?
“Despite minor problems, it’s by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value—like truly automated backups, document and spreadsheet preview images in [...]


Wifi on mac is a bless

I have never ever had any problems whatsoever with my mac and network connections. I move around alot and have probably connected to something like 15-20 different WiFi and threadbased networks the last weeks. And my mac has always been there for me, connected and online! MacRocks! A cool tool is coconutWIFI!

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BREAKING NEWS: I’M RUNNING A MAC

Yes, after 15 years with various MS Windows operating systems my new computer is an Apple MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz with 8G 4GB ram. I can’t really say that it ha been smooth transforming to this new interface, as a guy said to me: “No, this shit won’t be easy, you have to unlearn 15 years [...]