Macs are awfully tempting

July 3rd, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

We bought my wife a Macbook a couple of weeks ago after she finally agreed that her broken-screened, dead-USB, no-battery laptop was nearly unusable. (Most of those conditions were my ... Read more..

Intel won’t use Vista—so neither should you

June 26th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This summary pretty much says it all: "When a company as tech savvy as Intel, with full source code access and having written several large chunks of the OS, says get ... Read more..

iPhone 3G . . . blah blah blah

June 12th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The internet is abuzz with news of the iPhone 3G, the most powerful feature of which seems to be a price tag that finally brings the iPhone into direct competition ... Read more..

One year with Linux in a Windows world

June 4th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

Mike Kavis switched to Linux to prove that people can be productive at work without using Microsoft products. One year later, he has proved the point. I have been Microsoft free* ... Read more..

Linux beats Windows and Mac OSX in hacking context

March 29th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

From PC World: Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest . . . The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of ... Read more..

Browser and OS share of readers

January 31st, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I was looking at the numbers for browsers and operating systems for viewers, and thought you might want to take a peek yourselves. Windows XP is, as expected the favorite operating ... Read more..

Using virtual desktops

June 22nd, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Be More Productive | No Comments »

Virtual desktops are a very useful tool for organizing your virtual workspace. Windows, OSX, and Linux all have their versions. Linux has by far the most polished and natural-feeling virtual ... Read more..

BK Task Timer for Windows & Mac

February 1st, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Be More Productive | 1 Comment »

One of my officemates who uses a Mac recently showed me BK Task Timer, a lightweight but powerful task timer. To my delight, I discovered that BK Task Timer works ... Read more..

Running Time Matters on a Mac or in Linux

February 1st, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

Since my current obsession is the feasibility of switching over to Ubuntu Linux, I was pleased to see that the popular CrossOver software for Macs is also available for Linux. ... Read more..

Learn to use your file system

January 26th, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Go Paperless | 1 Comment »

One of the most annoying things to me about various document management programs--whether they manage images, PDFs, or whatever--is that they ignore the benefits of your operating system's file system. ... Read more..