Answering your MacBook questions…
Andrew writes:
How do you find the keyboard with extended use ? The spacing looks excessive but my casual use at the store seems to find it fine.
It feels just like a normal keyboard to me. The key travel and spacing is standard, it’s just the look that is different.
Do you notice [...]
Several folks have asked for my thoughts on the heat issues and battery life of the MacBook. Here they are…
Heat
Yes, this puppy gets hot. The left side gets hot enough that I wouldn’t want it on my lap directly (I use several lap desks), and the heat is most intense when I’m running the processor [...]
“Our days are numbered. A recent attempt to execute a merger has been blocked and we’ve been blocked from raising equity financing that would allow us to continue to pay salaries and pay off our $3 million in debt.” Of course it’s only one side of a story, but sounds messy.
Since I got the MacBook, I’ve been using it quite a bit. The consulting work I’m doing requires spending some time in the Windows-only world of Visio, and I’m running it on the MacBook using Parallels. For a beta virtual machine, Parallels is pretty good.
I’ve had some fun getting my Windows license key accepted: please [...]
Just came across this interesting blog from a bloke who explores caves and such all over the world. There are some really interesting posts like this one on cave ecosystems and how a dead log can sustain life for years.
After being frustrated with mod_rewrite mojo, I wrote a quickie no-www plugin for WordPress that redirects people to the non-www version of your URLs, in the spirit of no-www.org.
About five minutes ago, the beeping stopped.
I was in Texas last week for BBQ, clouds, and a wedding. At some point when I was gone, something in my house started beeping. When I arrived home there was a high-pitched chirp about every 45 seconds to a minute, coming from somewhere in the house. Generally when [...]
Om Malik is taking GigaOM full-time. (!) Update: This picture of Om is actually why I started reading his site.
Google Browser Sync is the best tool of its kind I’ve seen, and it’s a problem that has been my own personal pet peeve for a REALLY long time. It looks like Google is going to be the one to finally unify desktops. For pure-bookmarks sync, Foxmarks actually much smoother, and lets you use your [...]
Though I badly want to be able to use my BlackBerry as a modem for my MacBook in Mac OS X (bounty is up to $105!), I can use the BlackBerry as a modem for the MacBook now if I boot into Windows via Boot Camp.
This ability was one of the major reasons for me [...]