Blog from the Loft

As a touch typist, I am rather picky about keyboards and input methods. I always liked the mechanical keyboards with the old “Cherry electronics” keys. After switching to the Mac, the only reasonable keyboard to use is their aluminum external keyboards (wired or bluetooth model), but is is far from ideal.
With the iPad coming in [...]

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After one year, I finally gotten around of fixing this little annoyance. Everytime I click on a .doc document, my Mac wants to open up Microsoft Office. Finally I switched the default association back to pages.

Select any file with the extension you want to change.
Click Get Info
Down near the bottom, change “open with” to whatever [...]

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The Mac is great. I do all my work on a Mac Book Pro. I switched from Windows to Leopard completely this year and couldn’t be happier, except:
There are a few big problems in the Apple / Leopard universe. Somehow no one is publicizing these issues. If Windows have these problems the blogsphere and the [...]

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Look at my post way back in July here. A month later and CNET is talking about it?

Technorati Tags: iphone, apple

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So the web is buzzing with the “product transition” comments during the financial result calls. Cheaper iPod? Cheaper MacBook? What if it is nothing to do with hardware, but their new unlimited subscription based iTune music, or better still, video service?

Technorati Tags: apple

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This has been a very Apple centric month. I finally upgraded my very first mac, a pre-Aluminium iMac from Tiger to Leopard. The upgrade process was very easy. The next morning, I discovered that my new iPhone is no longer recognized by iTunes ! It worked before the upgrade.
The problem only exists with iTunes. When [...]

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Yes. I got one. Spent total of six and a half hours. Worth it? Yes. Weather was nice, a little hot but not too much. Apple staff were very nice. Especially Alex — She worked the line. Gave out (free) water, candy, went to get sunblock and more candy, even picked up a pizza for [...]

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Just wrote up a review for this little scanner. Great automatic document feeder. Great scan quality, and speed. Just wish it is cheaper. Read and watch the full review here on the review page.

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I have been using the text mode emacs up to now. On Windows (yikes!) I uses the xemacs with windows extension, which is pretty nice. Quick googling found me Carbon Emacs. It has been updated, universal binary and Leopard. Highly recommended !

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I started working on one of my internationalized applications on the new Mac. I realized I did not install “gettext”, which is required by the make-messages and compile-messages scripts. I want to avoid installing things into OS X if I can. Then I found the easy way out:
1. Install poedit for os x. I need [...]

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