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I Crumbled . . .

Jason — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:06:41 +0000

Just over a week ago I crumbled, I broke down, I gave in, I . . . bought an iPhone. Phew, I feel better now that I’ve got that out. I had always said I would hold off until it either came to Verizon or it achieved faster data speeds but well, my Palm Treo 650 decided that it wouldn’t give me that luxury. With random restarts abounding it was either get locked into another contract with Verizon or make the switch now. So, I made the switch.

Looking back now . . . I wish I would have bought it sooner! This is an absolute sweet device. The user interface is spectacular, it just makes sense! Now for those of you that know me, I am an avid fan of Apple. I’ve owned a couple of their computers now and I’ve always enjoyed using them. I try to avoid being too big of an Apple fan boy but well they seem to just get customers. I sure hope they keep this up!

New Get a Mac Commercials

Jason — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:18:02 +0000

Apple is at it again with a new round of Get a Mac commercials. These continue to highlight the differences between OS X and Windows really – not so much Apple vs. PC’s. It truely is all about the OS.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

Adium X

Jason — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:33:15 +0000

Users of OS X know of the very famous iChat instant messenging client that comes preinstalled on any Apple computer. It is a fairly solid chat client including features for video and audio chat. The one thing iChat doesn’t have (by default) are some of the features I really wanted.

Jason’s Chat Client Features:

tabbed message window
multiple account/screenname management
minimal design
ease of use

That’s when I stumbled across Adium X, then in its 0.40 life cycle. Adium is currently up to 0.89.1 and they are fast closing in on the much-anticipated 1.0 release of their software. Now some of you may consider using anything pre 1.0 release as unsafe. Adium is very stable software for chatting that in my opinion works much better than iChat. Now, it might mess something up every now and again but all in all, a very stable chat client.

Adium also has a host of modifications or Xtras as they are called that can be used to custom tailor Adium to suite your personal tastes. These vary for contact list (buddy list) layout, message styles, sounds, notifications, dock icons, etc. All of which can be updated via Adium Preferences with no need for other applications.

Now surely with all my lauded praise, Adium must have some faults, and it does. Adium can’t handle file transfers as well as other AIM based clients. This is due in large part to a user’s firewall/router settings as well as the open source framework, libgaim, that Adium is based off. Adium also has no integrated support for audio or video chat. Thus if you are a fan of your iSight – you’ll still need to use iChat.

Favorite OS X Software

Jason — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:21:58 +0000

For most people that read my blog, they know I’m an avid Mac user. I’m not going to get into a Windows vs. OS X debate here but I wanted to start sharing a few of my favorite OS X software packages for those readers who are also Mac users. I know there are a lot of sites out there that do this sort of thing but I’ve decided to take my own stab at things. Thus starts the Apple category of my site!

Get a Mac Commercials

Jason — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:39:18 +0000

Apple has released a new set of Get a Mac commercials comparing a PC to a Mac. They talk about several of the issues surrounding the advantages that Macs have over PCs. Now before I start getting flamed – I just think these are funny. I’m not touting Mac superiority, I think PCs have their place in the world but if you ask my choice of machines – it’ll be a Mac every time.

View Get a Mac Commercials