Coming clean about Microsoft ?

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by geofas

People who know me better know that I often speak harshly about Microsoft and some might even see me as a Mac fanboy. However, most of the time I exaggerate in a humoristic notion. The reality is not as harsh.
To come clean, it is not that I actually hate Microsoft, I just dislike them because [...]

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Triple Boot on my MacBook: Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP/Vista

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by geofas

UPDATE (nov08): When using Mac OSX 10.5.5 and Ubuntu 8.10 this process does NOT work! It does with 10.5-10.5.3 and Ubuntu 8.0x. I’m trying to figure out an update at the moment for the latest version of the OSs.
Completely forgot to post about this but I successfully finished a weekend project recently, believe it was [...]

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Diet WinXP

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by geofas

The only reason I have WinXP (via Parallels) on my mac is so that I can use MS Internet Explorer to access my work email via web-mail. Unfortunately the webmail we use does not support any other browsers. Anyway, for this single purpose the standard Windows XP build is too fat so I appreciated this [...]

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iPhone Native Apps & Customization

Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by geofas

Since a few people have asked me about this I rather put a little post up then repeat myself. For the record I have to state that this is all just for educational purposes. Doing any of the below is a violation of your license agreements with Apple that you agreed to almost by [...]

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Apple’s MS Windows Boot Camp for Mac OS X

Posted on April 7th, 2006 by geofas

Gotta love the product name!Apple released a handy application that lets you install MS Windows XP on your Intel-based mac.The strategic implications seems obvious, there’s mixed opinions out there.>> Get it

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Windows Media Plugin for Quicktime

Posted on April 3rd, 2006 by geofas

Apparently Microsoft is no longer investing in developing a macspecific version of their Windows Media Player. Instead they now offera plug-in to play WM files in Apple’s Quicktime.Well that suites me, that’s one Microsoft infestation less on my mac os x.
Flip4Mac

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