Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Mac
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The new daylight savings dates for New Zealand got missed out by Apple in their updates so here’s a link to a page with updates on it for the new DST information. DST starts this weekend in NZ. See New Zealand 2007 daylight savings update for Mac OS X. Hat tip to: TidBITS Macs &…
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I’ve thought about putting Skype on the iBook and wondered about Mac-compatible hardware to support it – yelling at the laptop didn’t seem ideal. But really had no idea where to start. I’ve found in the past that quite a few USB devices (speakers, keyboards etc,) do work in Mac OS X but the boxes…
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Paul Roberts posts like a “true believer”. (It’s all about computer preferences, you see). See staring into the distance::as far as our eyes can see » Computer-geek heaven (i) – Getting under the surface of the Mac. Related links: Lam, Pui-Yan. “May the Force of the Operating System Be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit…
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Open Source Mac – Free, Open-Source software for OS X is exactly what is says it is – “A simple list of free, open-source software for Mac OS X.” Nevertheless, it’s a helpful wee site.
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Over the years I’ve used lots of different text and word processors to support writing I’ve needed to do: nroff and similar on UNIX systems for writing documentation View on the BBC Microcomputer in the 1980s Something on an Apple II+ which only displayed 40 characters per line WordStar, MS Word and WordPerfect under MS-DOS…
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Came across this article today as part of my pulling stuff together for my “Hacking as Theology” paper I’m working on at the moment. Sociology of Religion: May the Force of the Operating System be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion (From Sociology of Religion, Summer, 2001 by Pui-Yan Lam) As practice, identity, and…