Essential Applications – Adium

21 October, 2007 (23:03) | essential application, mac | No comments

Adium is a free cross-protocol instant messaging application. It supports AIM, MSN, GTalk, Jabber, and others. It has all the features you would expect in an IM application and a great, customizable interface. There are also a ton of extras you can download to customize it even further. If you are like me, the first [...]

MacBook Pro

21 October, 2007 (21:30) | mac, macbookpro | 3 comments

I purchased the 15-inch 2.4 GHz MacBoook Pro.  This utilizes Intel’s Santa Rosa platform which enables OS X to address up to 4 GBs of RAM.  Since running virtual machines requires lots of RAM, I decided to manually upgrade the RAM to the maximum.  Because of Apple’s outrageously priced 4 GB upgrade (+$700),  I purchased [...]

About this Blog

21 October, 2007 (21:05) | about, mac, windows | No comments

I am a longtime Windows power user who just recently purchased a MacBook Pro.  This will not be a “switcher” blog as I have no intention of abandoning Windows which, believe it or not, I really like.  Instead I will attempt to cover my experiences running OS X and Windows at the same time on [...]