The Mac Store Salem

The Mac Store in Salem moved at the end of November from its long-time home downtown on Ferry Street out to 442 Lancaster Drive. That’s just south of Center Street for those of you who might be looking to take a run out there. The new location is smaller, about...

Technology du jour

If you’ve not already tried RSS (Really Simple Syndication) via Net Newswire or FireFox, do yourself a favor. The collection of web sites I browsed regularly took about an hour a day. Using RSS, it takes about 10 minutes. That’s because RSS gives you the...

What a difference some RAM makes

I upgraded Mystic to 1.25 GB of RAM this morning. This is up from 512 MB (two 256 MB cards) that were in the machine previously. Installation was a typically elegant Apple snap. Based on approximately one hour’s experience, the one thing I will say is this: If...

LaunchBar

Jennie’s fiancée Jon deserves credit for turned me onto a little app called LaunchBar which really must be seen to be believed. You’d think that the last thing anyone needs is another application launching utility, but you’d be wrong. I’ve...

OMG, it’s so big!

By which I mean Apple’s 20″ Cinema Display, of course. What were you thinking? It’s taken me two days just to empty off the top of my desk so that I can get the new computer arrangement set up. Late afternoon today, though, I finally got it going...

Mystic: PowerBook G4 part 2

Now that I’ve a little more time to play with the G4 PowerBook, I feel like I can speak with a touch more authority about my experience rather than having to blather about how great it looks coming out of the box. Though of course it does look great. =) Despite...