Boot Camp makes it more compelling to buy a Mac nowadays, I think. I talked with a friend on Sunday whose Windows laptop is dying. Now he is thinking about adding a desktop Mac to go along with it, because of Boot Camp. He’ll run Windows and also OS X. I think he’s wanted to …

Well I finished my federal taxes and I realized I was getting a nice refund. Plus I had recently read today the brilliant article “Windows is the New Classic“. So I did what a good Mac enthusiast would do and finally bought a Daring Fireball membership! Now I’ve got access to the Full Article and …

No, Boot Camp is not the latest Ajax-enabled webapp from 37signals. (That’s Basecamp.) Boot Camp is Apple’s really late April Fool’s Joke. No, that’s not it either. Boot Camp is Apple’s 30th Anniversary surprise! It is an official Apple-supported way (currently in beta) to dual-boot an Intel Mac in both OS X and Windows XP. …

How do you know when you’ve got too many unread RSS feeds? … When your wife asks “I tried to open Safari, but I accidentally opened 16191. What’s 16191?” Thinks hard… but stumped. Then I lean over and laugh. “Hehehe… that’s just NetNewsWire, honey.”

I got word from some friends who ordered the MacBook Pro that they have now been upgraded. You can now get the MacBook Pro in: 1.83Ghz ($1999) 2Ghz ($2499) and 2.16Ghz! ($2799) This is excellent! What’s even better is that everyone who had ordered a 1.67Ghz MacBook Pro (which will not exist anymore – or …

I presented at the Tysons Corner Apple Store tonight. Turnout was light, but the presentation went well. Actually one guy, Don, drove all the way from Gettysburg, PA! That is the kind of Mac devotee that I love to see. I gave a presentation that Pat Faquet, our VP of Programs at the Washington Apple …

Funny – when I was a kid, I never really liked getting up in front of class and presenting… But this coming Tuesday, February 7th from 7pm – 8pm I get to present at the in-store theatre at the Apple Store Tysons Corner! Fortunately, I’ve gotten more accustomed to speaking in public. :) It is …

So Steve Jobs says that the new Intel iMacs are twice as fast as the old iMacs. So Gus happened upon a programmer-relevant benchmark: Subversion compile. For the non-nerdy among us, Subversion is a place where programmers put their code so that it stays safe and they can go back or compare with old versions. …

I just wanted to share one of my favorite iTunes Smart Playlists. I call it “good songs i haven’t heard in a while”. If you rate your songs, it helps you find those hidden gems that you haven’t run into in a while. It looks like this: Match all of the following rules: My Rating …

Check out http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/. It’s a nice live news feed that automates automatically every minute and is AJAX-enabled.