Tag Archives: Mac

My MacBook Pro doesn’t feel good

Posted on 2008/05/20 by Andrea

About half of my applications suddenly started “beachballing”, when trying to shut them down they did not. I killed them and could not restart them. Looking at the logs I saw this: May 20 11:51:47 TwinPower diskarbitrationd[146]: iCal [8351]:26247 not … Continue reading →

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Customize your windows environment

Posted on 2008/04/10 by Andrea

I remember when I was unsure if I should get a Mac or keep my existing Windows. Yes, that was a long time ago, but I remember I tried how the UI would look like. I see that a new … Continue reading →

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RSS reader and sharing

Posted on 2007/11/07 by Andrea

I am a bit in a middle ground these days jumping from one reader to another and also between sharing my favorite articles between two different services. I used NetNewsWire (a Mac RSS reader) for almost 2 years now and … Continue reading →

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Nature and technology

Posted on 2007/10/15 by Andrea

I really like the contrast given by my new keyboard on my natural Teak table. This is my Tisettanta Carpenter table (picture from official site, I don’t have the bench): And this is how the Mac and the keyboard look … Continue reading →

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The Finder that will come

Posted on 2007/10/09 by Andrea

When I moved from Windows (2000 at the time) to OS X I had quite a few problems, initially with Finder (the counter part of Windows Explorer). I simply felt it did not have all the features I needed and … Continue reading →

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