Macgasm

Start a war with a Windows user, Sun-tzu style

It’s a simple fact really - Macs are outnumbered nine to one.  We will inevitably be forced to interact with those distant, and somewhat retarded cousins of Apple at some point.  We can’t hide from them. They control the libraries, the computer labs, the offices, the confines of hell, the workplace. What am I talking about?  [...]

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Apple Broke my…

It seems more and more these days the mac community is coming up with hacks and cracks for all our favorite apple toys. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Heck, it makes our toys more fun. However, when apple updates the firmware on those hacked/cracked toys, it tends to break them or repair them. So, [...]

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Get that Bootcamp partition back

Some of the recent switchers that I know decided that it would be in their best interest to have a windows partition set up on their machines with Bootcamp, just in case they needed to get something done with an application that they could not find a replacement. I cringed, I laughed, I obliged [...]

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VMware has a nice little “feature” called unity mode.

With the advent of the Intel Mac line there came a huge roar from people wanting to run XP and other operating systems virtually on their Apple machines.  A couple of companies came out swinging, and in my opinion, VMware has come out on top.  There is a nifty little feature that lets you run [...]

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From iLife 08 to Office 2007

As I said in my introductory post, I live (proudly) as a Mac user in a Microsoft OS build and support center. And try as I might to convince the powers-that-be that it’s time to “switch”, I’m not getting a ton of traction on that front. So, I’m unfortunately left with having to live between [...]

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