Thought I Killed My Mac Mini!

I was messing around with importing video from an old, tape video camcorder via Firewire when I killed my Mac Mini.  I looked at the back of the Mini, not remembering whether or not it had a Firewire port.  I saw something that looked like that kind of port and started to shove the [...]

Launchy is QuickSilver for the PC

I love using QuickSilver on my Mac, and finally I ran across the PC equivalent. It’s called Launchy and it works great!

This is what Launchy looks like

I have it configured to launch when I press ctrl-space. Just like QuickSilver, all you have to do is start typing and it finds the [...]

Mac People are the Southerners of Computers

I just realized this analogy:

Mac People are to PC People as Southerners are to Northerners

Or… in analogy shorthand:

Mac People : PC People  :: Southerners : Northerners

Most people from New England have had a friend or acquaintence from the South.  We’ve all been there.  They just WON’T SHUT UP about it.  [...]