Monthly Archives: March 2009

Garbage-collecting your Mac OS X Address Book

Posted on 2009-03-27 by majid

After years of Outlook and Palm synchronization, when I fully switched over to the Mac, I moved my contacts database over to Mac OS X’s Address Book (painfully due to Outlook’s roach motel tendencies, but that’s another story). For the … Continue reading →

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Nehalem Mac Pro first impressions

Posted on 2009-03-18 by majid

Some people use laptops as their primary computing environment. I am not one of them. Desktop replacement laptops like the MacBook Pro are heavy, and truly portable ones like my MacBook Air are too limited. Even the desktop replacement ones … Continue reading →

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Microsoft at its scumbag tactics again

Posted on 2009-03-10 by majid

I seem to be late to this party, but one of the security updates for Windows XP (.NET 3.5) silently installs a Firefox plugin that: tells every web server you visit which version of the .NET framework you have, in … Continue reading →

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Circular logic

Posted on 2009-03-02 by majid

I never liked Research In Motion’s Blackberry phones. They have excellent support for Microsoft Exchange, but were abysmal for standards-based POP and IMAP. It used to be the only way to do so was to use their webmail client (for … Continue reading →

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