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This afternoon on my MacBook Pro, Mail and Safari were acting screwy. Safari would give me a beach ball when I tried to fill out a form on Amazon and Mail would give me a beach ball when it did an address look up when I typed someone’s name in the To: field. [...]

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Someone told me once that they didn’t like using a Mac because it doesn’t have enough keyboard shortcuts built in. For example, how do you access the menu bar without using your mouse? On Windows, you use the alt key to access any menu item. In OS X, you just need to [...]

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Daniel challenges you to spend a month using OS X exclusively and see if it’s not much better than Windows. Too bad there isn’t a try-and-buy program to let people actually do this without risking any money. Absent of that, we are left to testimonials by current owners (fanboys) and marketing.

In 2006, I [...]

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Fortune Small Business published this drivel in response to a serious question: Is it time to consider moving your small business to Macs?

Their answer: it makes sense for maybe 20 companies out of 100, up from just 5 a few years back.

Here are the reasons Macs won’t work for your small business:

The slogan “Designed by [...]

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John Lilly, Mozilla CEO, complained about the clandestine Safari 3.1 install for Windows users. I think most users with half a brain will know if they have Safari or not and if they don’t want it, they can deselect the check box. Whatever your opinion, I think that is beside the point really. [...]

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I spoke to a network admin recently that runs a Mac network for a small architecture firm. Over the years, they have accumulated a good collection of Windows macro viruses in docs stored on his network. Since they weren’t affected by these viruses, they never bothered to clean them up. It is [...]

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I do alot of conference calls with vendors and customers.  Every vendor uses a different service, but most are WebEx, Citrix (gotomeeting or gotowebinar), Raindance or Readytalk.  I recently switched to a Mac (I love it by the way…I’ll post on that someday).  All of the above web demo services have worked great accept for [...]

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