Flight Control for iPhone review by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com – “The game takes seconds to learn, and mere minutes to play. That makes it even more impressive that I’ve spent hours guiding planes in Flight Control and can’t wait to go play again.”
The comments to the review are also extremely positive about the game.
Heavy or light loads, it didn’t seem to matter … the new MacBook Pro gives “The Best Battery Life I’ve Ever Seen“:
Eight, freakin, hours. I couldn’t believe it. In my lightest test, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro lasted eight hours and eight minutes. That’s with the screen at half brightness (completely usable) and no funny optimizations. The notebook is just playing music and surfing through a lot of my old reviews. There’s no way this could be right. Maybe my test was too light?
From a reader’s comment to the TUAW article, Worldwide Mac: getting online in New Zealand:
What I’d recommend doing to alleviate your problem is to set up some kind of home server (perhaps a Mac Mini) and configure an Apache / Squid proxy server on it. Set up each Mac to use the server as its proxy, and you’ll notice a significant reduction in bandwidth, as well as a significant increase in speed, because you’ll pull down duplicate resources via your home network rather than the slow internet link.
With a caching proxy (and a sufficiently large cache, a few gigabytes or so) you should be able to, for instance, download software updates once and then have the other Mac fetch them from the cache
theAppleBlog looks at four plugins that extend the functionality of the Quicklook function.
This forum discussion is one of the best threads I’ve read on the subject of switching from the Windows / PC platform to the Mac
Here’s an excerpt from my favorite post in that thread, the one by Greg Zillgitt:
The machine I’m using to write this post, a late ‘08 Macbook Pro, is the best all-around personal computer I’ve ever owned. It’s beautifully designed and built. It has a stunning display. It has a fantastic backlit keyboard with a great feel. It has a huge, smooth trackpad. It has firewire. It’s fast. And most importantly it runs the very best operating system, one that is truly a joy to use both at the GUI level and at the command prompt. It also runs XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux, all extremely well.
There is also a post by Tom Almy which links to his article, currently titled “Now 26 months with a Mac” – be sure to check out that long-term review from a user’s perspective.
One big disadvantage with the Acorn image editing software is that it cannot open up RAW images such as NEF files from my Nikon D90.
What gives?
I’ve now downloaded Pixelmator and giving it a spin. At least Pixelmator opens up RAW files out of the box.
Just to be clear though, Pixelmator does not have RAW conversion options, but you’re allowed to perform on the RAW file all the kinds of edits that you could do on normal JPEG / JPG / TIFF / PNG images.
Bill Wilson dislikes the keyboard that comes with Intel Mac Pros, and bought a Matias Tactile Pro 2.0 USB keyboard instead.
The Tactile Pro is designed around ALPS mechanical keyswitches that provide great tactile feedback.
The Mighty Mouse that comes with Macs
With the Apple Mighty Mouse, you’d have to make large movements with the mouse to move the cursor just a little distance on-screen. To get the mouse cursor from one corner of the screen to the other, I’d need to make two or more swipes.
Not so with my A4Tech Retractable Mouse. Lovely little mouse. A tiny flick of the wrist is all I need to move the mouse pointer from one edge of the screen to the other. Pure bliss.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) Reviews
Review by Jackie Dove, Macworld.com – You get better colors compared to the older, March 2009 model: “… viewing them together, the heightened intensity of the red and green spectrums made the difference obvious. Mere eyeball observations were born out by Apple’s Color Sync utility. In comparing the last generation MacBook Pros with the new models, the range of visible color was specifically expanded in the red and green areas. The blues stayed about the same.”
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