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One more reason to consider switch to MAC OS.

November 9th 2007

 Do you have to create any presentation on work, university, volunteer activity ?
The answer to the topic you have to try “d**n f****g” great software called ‘Keynote’ from the set iWork 08. It is software for creating presentations, PowerPoint is analog.
iWork goes with Pages (Word processor), Numbers (Excel or Calc analog).
It is worth each cent [...]

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Latvian or non-standard spell-check on Safari and other Mac applications.

October 20th 2007

Latvian spell-check issue is gone at Mac (partially). Thank to the Normunds and “Power of Google”.
Great feature of browser – spell-check. Firefox provides support for different non-standard languages, latvian support is available there too, but remember – the point is to use Safari.
So Firefox is not a solution, MacOS provides support for standard widely used [...]

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Where is my macbook.

October 4th 2007

My Macbook is traveled to Lithuania, where is located headquarters of the company, where Macbook was originally purchased, as local Latvian distributor is not repairing Macbook, that are not distributed by them (well, everyone has its own specific business politic).
This week, I got into the situation, when I realized some “rumored” advantages of [...]

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Computer's animation films beginning.

September 23rd 2007

Here is first animation film [Quicktime required]made on computers (probably one of the first), that was created at 1986. The film was created by Pixar Animation Studios, that is famous with great animations films at nowadays, like Ratatouille, Cars, Finding Nemo and others.
First one is called as Luxo Jr. and presented as a landmark at [...]

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That's a shame.

September 23rd 2007

My Macbook battery does not work anymore. Macbook is reverted to stand-alone PC (annoying experience I must admit).
Interesting fact, that there are plenty of users that have experienced the same issue with battery at Macbooks. Macrumour forums, even Mac forums and other sources from google should bring interesting results.
The problem might appear for Macbook, which [...]

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Products don't sell. People Do.

September 14th 2007

Yes, Apple is marketing machine, it is very hard to argue with that fact.
Most likely the marketing was the only thing that saved company from bankruptcy at 1997 and brought them back to the top for these years.
A lot of different tricks and marketing inventions are used by them, to find them out it is [...]

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