Finally, it’s been done. There has been a contest that people donated to (total of $13,000), for someone to find a way to install Windows XP on the new Intel Macs (iMac or MacBook Pro or Mac Mini) and the contest is over. If you have a new Intel Mac and are patient [...]
[Leave a Comment]Archive for the 'PC' Category
Ok, so now you’ve got Firefox 1.5. What next? Well, one of the great benefits of having Firefox over Internet Explorer or Safari is for the extensions. There are three great extensions that EVERY Firefox user (Mac or PC) should install.
1) SessionSaver - One of the greatest features of Firefox [...]
Ok, it’s finally here. Firefox 1.5 has been released, although they haven’t announced it on their website yet. I downloaded it from Mozilla’s FTP server. Their servers are gonna be slammed today and the next few days so you can get it from my servers here:
Firefox 1.5 for Mac
Firefox 1.5 for PC
I’ve [...]
Ok, this has been out for a little while, but wanted to try it out myself before recommending it. I tried it out on all the PCs that I have access to and I like it! Microsoft bought out another company that had an antispyware software and just put their name on it [...]
[Leave a Comment]Ok, Adium all the way on the MAC, but what about the PC? Definitely Trillian. I have been using Trillian on the PC side for many years (before even version 1) and they have done a GREAT job on Version 3.0. It’s definitely the best multi-platform chat program on the PC side [...]
[Leave a Comment]Man, software releases galore! The Firefox 1.0 is now official and has been released TODAY. I have been downloading the betas and nightlies for a while now and now it’s all available to the public. Good luck downloading it though … the mozilla site is being hammered!
I’ve uploaded to my server so [...]
Ok, the MAC and PC gap is definitely becoming smaller. Konfabulator, one of my favorite applications for the MAC has gone cross-platform today. What a day for software releases!
So, what is Konfabulator? Their slogan is “whatever you want it to be.” And that’s true. It’s not so much [...]
Want your PC to look like a MAC? Here’s a screenshot of my PC. I call it Mac XP! Pretty nice, eh? There’s a couple of programs that you need to run. You need Mobydock for the dock on the bottom of the screen. You also need WindowBlinds with the [...]
[Leave a Comment]Speed up load time
• Firefox is slow to load initially on Windows XP. You can speed this up a bit by using XP’s built in prefetcher. Simply right-click on the Firefox icon you use to start the browser. Add the text /Prefetch:1 to the end of the line in the target field.
The whole line should [...]
