Category Archives: Apple

Lists, Issues, Tutorials related to Apple Computers

Holiday Recommendations - AE Seal of Encouraged Entertainment

Pandorum, District 9 and Stargate Universe - We got serious, hardcore science fiction this year and I’m thankful.
Dexter, Californication, Party Down and True Blood - These shows have been excellent this year.  We got mythic serial characters this year and I’m thankful.
Redbelt - This is a very serious movie whose ideals I seek to live [...]

The Nature of Microsoft Issues vs. Mac/Linux issues

Consider: A Windows PC is brought in to the shop where I work with the following message appearing after every boot, just as the desktop appears:
“Xprcedrtfsc.exe cannot be found.   The result of 000×21eag325 was returned from the session”
This message appears just above a big ‘Ok’ button every time you log on, which you must click [...]

Why iTunes 8 Sucks Eggs

itunes 7 just kindof sucked, but iTunes 8 is barely useable.
It used to be that I could view all of the podcasts iTunes was organizing for me, and which I could load onto my iPod, in a list view where I could see all of them together. I could expand or hide each podcasts [...]

Open Office and AbiWord ready for OS X.5.5*

*See Below for Update from 11/25/08.
FWIW, I recommend avoiding the use of Open Office and Abi Word in OS X, it has positively introduced chaos onto my system.
After exporting a file to PDF, look what happened to a normal web page:
AbiWord and OpenOffice both also exhibit glitchy text editing, the cursor [...]

Excellent Fedora 8 Gnome Desktop - Linux is Ready

For many, many years, we have wondered if linux is ready for the desktop.  I want to put a link here to the article, ok I will , but this discussion is such a huge fandango you could really waste a lot of time. In the opinion of AE, the question doesn’t boil [...]