Tag: mac
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Ode to a 2020 MacBook Pro
Time for another one of these posts. This upgrade is not as catastrophic as a battery explosion like last time. It does have a slightly dumb story to it, though. So yesterday, I was supposed to fly to New Orleans. If you’ve known me for a few years, you know Louisiana is one of the…
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Book layouts in Apple Pages
I do my book layouts in Apple Pages. Yes, I should be using InDesign. No, I don’t want to pay $35/month for something I use once a year. Apple Pages worked okay for layouts until version 5.0 came out in 2013, when they tried making the OSX and iOS versions have parity with each other,…
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Ode to a 2017 MacBook Pro
So I was in a meeting yesterday, looking over at my Mac, and the lid didn’t seem to be closed all the way. My only thought was the usual “Apple doesn’t make them like they used to” and I ignored it. A few hours later, at the end of my work day, I went to…
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River of stress
I continue to stress out over the move. I have two painters coming over today for quotes on patch/paint on the old place to get it ready to sell. I have no news and no commitment on when we will get keys for the new place, so I’m now putting together the contingency plan so…
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System emulation time machine
I’m always talking about time machines, touchstones that launch you into nostalgia for some forgotten era of the past. There’s one that I mess with that’s infinitely more detailed than any other, and it’s system emulation, which was once just a vague dream and is now huge and all-encompassing. I guess it all really started…
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Memory
I’ve been working in VMware all week, and constantly swapping virtual memory, even though this computer has four gigs of RAM. And it’s not like I configured my virtual machine to use four gigs of memory and then wondered why I can’t run that and iTunes and iPhoto and iEverythingElse at the same time. So…