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John C. Dvorak Now Recommends Macs Over Windows PCs

By Mac Fan, August 3, 2007

John C. Dvorak is an infamous Mac basher and writer for PC Magazine. In a recent column of his titled “Me and My Mac”, John says he’s using a Mac and now recommends them to friends and neighbors.

John says,

I can see why the Mac is gaining market share, because the rationale for using one is simple. Do you want to deal with the agony of antivirus, firewall, antispyware, and other touchy software subsystems, many of which do not work well? Or do you want to boot Microsoft Word and write a document and be done with it?

Generally speaking, the interface is slicker than the PC’s, and you get the sense that the computer isn’t about to start acting weird because of some virus, spyware, or endless Firefox loading procedure going on in the background and killing all the cycles of the computer.

John has finally realized what Mac fans have been saying for years, it just works. He uses a word to describe Windows that I’ve been using for a long time, “hassle”. I find Windows to be full of hassles.

First you have Chris Pirillo (longtime Windows advocate) break up with Vista and switch back to XP, now you have John C. Dvorak recommending Macs! It’s not a good year for Windows fans.

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Quick OS X Tip: The magic of Mail’s “Previous Recipients” window

By Nick, July 17, 2007

I frequently use Mail’s autofill feature to address emails to people; it saves me the hassle of having to type in the recipient’s full email address or me having to find their name in my address book (in lower-case to differentiate the actual listing of people from the Address Book application itself). (It also highlights one of the many reasons why I prefer actual mail clients to web-based mail in all its forms, but that’s another blog entry altogether.) Also I often neglect to add people’s email addresses to my address book, mostly out of sheer laziness. I suck, don’t I?

However, in time the autofill list can become cluttered with names of people I’ve never heard of, mostly thanks to spammers (probably because I’ve used the “bounce to sender” feature in the past). Observe:

For the past few days I’ve been looking for a way to remove the extraneous names in the autofill list because I have accidentally addressed a number of emails to spam email addresses recently. Why has this become a problem only recently? I have no idea.

With the help of Google, however, I found a little hidden gem of a Mail feature that Macworld pointed out in an article published in early 2006 entitled Mac tune-up: 34 software speedups. The Macworld article pointed me in the general direction of the “Previous Recipients” window as the means to removing these useless email addresses. Sweet. Macworld explains that the Previous Recipients window, accessible via the Window menu, allows…
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Fullscreen playback now in free Quicktime

By Liam, July 12, 2007

Quicktime 7.2, released on July 11th, was not a major update. It fixed a few bugs and patched a few security vulnerabilities. It also added fullscreen video playback to the free version of Quicktime, a feature that has remained Quicktime Pro only for a long time. Many have wondered why that is, but now Apple has had a change of heart.

Freaking Finally

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iPhone Launch: Modesto, CA [Updated: with pics]

By Arden, June 29, 2007

Across the nation, people are gathered in lines waiting for access to their newly beloved devices, while a fortunate few already have them and are discovering the joy of their new phone, music and Internet toy.

As I’m sure you know by now, the iPhone has arrived to much fanfare. Across the nation, people are gathered in lines waiting for access to their newly beloved devices, while a fortunate few already have them and are discovering the joy of their new phone, music and Internet toy. Being a resident of Modesto, I decided to cover the launch from an AT&T store on Sisk Road here in town.

Explaining the rules

The rules for the launch were thus: AT&T stores (and probably Apple stores) would close at 4:00 pm in preparation for the launch. Sometime within the next 2 hours, a delivery truck would stop by and unload the desired treasures. At 6:00 pm sharp, the first 12 buyers in line, plus their immediate parties, would be allowed into the store (12 representatives helping 12 customers at a time), and as one customer left, another would be allowed in. Otherwise, everyone had to wait outside, whether or not in line, and could not enter the store until the last customer in line had been helped. I opted to leave before they got to the last customer, or I would have needed a much more powerful flash on my camera.

First!

The first people in line were a young man named Dave Bright, about my age, and his girlfriend. I spoke briefly with Dave, asking him about his upcoming purchase. He indicated he was definitely looking forward to receiving his iPhone, and that he didn’t have any apprehensions about…
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From the iPhone launch - Berkeley, CA [UPDATED - PHOTOS+VIDEO]

By Nick, June 29, 2007

iPhone is here.

I work in Berkeley, CA, so I decided to stop by the AT&T store on Shattuck Avenue to catch a glimpse of the crowds awaiting the iPhone. I arrived about 50 minutes before the doors opened and the line was about half a block long--reasonably long, but not amazing (not surprising, considering there is an Apple Store a 15-minute drive away). I was greeted by my friend Andrew, who at that point had been waiting in line for about a half hour. When I arrived he was about 15 people from the end of the line, which seemed ti indicate that the line had been gradually growing for most of the day. Unlike iPhone lines in New York, the Berkeley line was fairly young--the first man in line had been waiting since only this morning. He came well-prepared with a lawn chair, of course.

Some people waiting had their laptops, and as you might have guessed, they were all Macs.

As 6 PM approached, another crowd of people gathered around the front of the store. You guessed it--onlookers! With cameras! I never knew watching a line of people was such a spectator sport, but I guess it is one. I didn’t feel like quite as much of a loser after that.

Some passers-by knew what was up, others were completely clueless. And still others ridiculed those who were standing in line--and those of us who were watching the scene.

At approximately 6:01 PM, the door opened and those…
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