Interview: Computer Setup

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In the next part of our technology interview, we asked a number of people: Describe your computer system setup and tell what parts you feel are most important for your productivity. (679) I was surprised at how many Mac users we had.  Obviously everyone's setup is based around their particular needs, but there are some great tips in here. OS X itself is great for my productivity. In the year and a half I've been using a Mac, I've had only a few trivial computer problems, all easily solved. The two programs that most add to my Mac productivity are Quicksilver and TextExpander. To my mind, Quicksilver's versatility alone is a good reason to use a Mac. TextExpander, like the … [Read more...]

Mobile Me Email Down for a week.

My .mac (now Mobile Me) email has be non functional since last Friday.  I can't believe a company with the resources of Apple can't get an email server fixed in 4 to 6 hours much less a whole week.  Walt Mosberg says the other services aren't very reliable either.  I had been told that they were storing all incoming emails in a queue, but when I asked them if they could print out my emails and fax them to me (I know that is insane, but they weren't offering me anything useful and being down for a whole week is even more crazy than faxing emails) I found out that their servers are simply rejecting incoming connections so after four days they will be returned as undeliverable.  At this … [Read more...]

Virtual Box

Sun has released a free virtulization tool that is similar to Parallels and VMWare Fusion.  If you have a Mac and need to run another OS, this is worth looking into.  The have a commercial and opensource version.  I haven't tried it yet.  If you have used it, drop me a line and let me know what you think. … [Read more...]