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Yahoo & MSN in iChat

  • 9 May, 2005

I’ve found two tutorials on how to add Yahoo and MSN buddies to your iChat application. It works with iChat 3 found in Mac OS 10.4. Apple added Jabber to iChat which opens doors to adding in Yahoo and MSN abilities. Granted, it’s only chat. I don’t believe that any file transfers, mail notifications or […]

Firefox Gifts: Pen, Coin & Mug

  • 6 May, 2005

I’m a big fan of Mozilla Firefox and yesterday I got a few Firefox related gifts. First, my boss gave got me a Firefox mug. It’s really sweet with the Firefox name on one side and the logo on the other. Then, when I got home last night, there was a package from the Mozilla […]

The BMW of Chat Clients

  • 4 May, 2005

Just as I was about to check out the new iChat in Mac OS 10.4, Adium 0.80 came out. Adium is a multi-service, free, incredibly customizable, instant messaging application for Mac. I didn’t think that this update would be as amazing as it is, however they continue to raise the standards of design and usability […]

Set Your Dashboard Widgets Free

  • 3 May, 2005

If you have Mac OS 10.4 you have Dashboard and probably have one wish: Let the widgets be free! Well a new little application called Amnesty is out in beta form. It allows you to run a copy of your widgets separate from Dashboard on your desktop. I just installed it and it seems to […]

More Ogres in Shrek 3

  • 3 May, 2005

Is Dreamworks becoming like Disney; sequel happy?! I doubt it. The simple fact is that Shrek is popular and the momentum is still there. Hopefully it’ll sick as Shrek 3 isn’t due out until 2007. All the main characters will be back and voiced by the original people. That’s a key part. Who wants to […]

A Sunny Snowy May Day

  • 2 May, 2005

Well, talk about odd weather. Yesterday was May Day and it was sunny. Then cloudy, then windy then snowy rainy sleety. Oh, then sunny again. It was like that all day. You’d look out the window and it’d look beautiful. Minutes later it’d be white with snow showers. Geez. Fun, but this cold weather is […]

Tiger’s First Days

  • 1 May, 2005

Now that I’ve had a day or two to play with Tiger I think it’s a great upgrade. I ended up having to do a clean install, however that was probably a blessing in disguise. Especially since I didn’t loose anything major. Overall the new OS is really nice. I’ve already seen tricks to keeping […]

Tiger – Disaster Averted

  • 30 Apr, 2005

I took some time last night and checked out the important stuff and it doesn’t appear that I lost anything important. Phew. Just re-downloading my Macromedia apps and a bunch of other freeware and shareware applications. Saved mail messages, preferences and keychain passwords are all ok. So, to get to the important stuff, Tiger is […]

Tiger… Not Yet Impressed

  • 29 Apr, 2005

I don’t know if I got a bad disk or what, but my Tiger install did not go well. First off the disk wouldn’t verify. I called the Apple store and they said to just skip verification. I then choose archive and install and it archived everything but failed on install. Now I was left […]

Tiger Day! Yea!

  • 29 Apr, 2005

Well today is the day! Mac OSX 10.4 comes out today!! I’ll be off to Southdale or the Mall of America tonight to get my own copy. Plus I hear rumors of t-shirts!! To get ready for Tiger I decided to backup and clean up my Powerbook last night. I used iBackup and only backed […]