One thing that’d always bugged me about SMB printing from my Power Mac to the shared Canon S600 connected to my dad’s Windows XP PC was that the print quality had been unsatisfactory: either the colours are “off” or too faded, and no amount of tweaking of print settings helped. (Text printing looks OK though). It looked like, at least where my particular Canon printer is concerned, Gimp-Print drivers simply don’t cut it for graphics. (OS X 10.3 comes with…
And really, who can blame them? Really, it’s no longer true that processing power (i.e. GHz ratings) is the only thing considered when one decides to purchase a new computer: take a look at the growing popularity of the so-called Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs pioneered by Shuttle (which is probably inspired by Apple’s own Power Macintosh G4 Cube). Fact is, aesthetics matter too. Now these folks have listed some modifications they did to make their Windows system resemble Mac…
I’ve been playing around with Apple’s GarageBand for a while, especially ever since Apple Singapore announced the MusicJam competition. While I sadly wasn’t able to make the time to create some tunes decent enough for that competition, I did have quite a bit of fun trying heh.. Anyhow, anyone familiar with GarageBand would have seen this pesky warning at some point So what to do? Well, fortunately there’re a few sites that list performance tips for GarageBand. Here’re two of…
The web browser can be considered an indispensable tool, for we use it on an almost daily basis to access, and even interact, with pieces of information on the internet. Of course, many also use the web browser for…ahem…not so benign purposes, for which they will usually get into LOTS of trouble. But did you know that sometimes a web browser can get you into trouble without you doing anything naughty? That’s exactly what this article on Wired News suggests….
As some might know, I became an almost-full time Mac user a few months ago shortly after purchasing a cheap second-hand spiffed-up PowerMac G4 (Sawtooth). More on that next time…anyway, just came an excellent resource over at Macworld.com on the different ways to upgrade various Macs. Check it out! The Do-It-Yourself Mac
If you’ve been looking around for a capable alternative to Microsoft’s Word, you might not need look further than OpenOffice.org’s Writer component. This suprisingly capable word processor can import/export MS Word documents, can export to PDF, is available for multiple platforms and is completely FREE! I highly recommend you read this very comprehensive review of Word 2003 vs Writer 1.1:A Word of Difference