I recently posted a quote from Steve Ballmer discussing a key difference between Apple and Microsoft, which I titled A Complete Experience. Having spent a bit more time thinking about it, I thought I would capture some of those thoughts…
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A Complete Experience
9/16/2008 – 11:35 am
In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often…
Print to PDF on Windows Without Acrobat
1/15/2008 – 3:15 pm
I recently needed to produce a PDF on my XP box at work, but as I didn’t have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed I had to do some digging. Luckily it didn’t take too long to find a convenient solution. Even…
Debugging Safari
6/12/2007 – 9:01 am
Check out this post by rakaz, which provides a quick walk-through on enabling the debug menu in Safari for Windows, which provides the ability to access JavaScript exceptions, show the JS console, enable a runaway JavaScript timer and turn off “Site-Specific…
Safari’s Font Rendering on Windows
6/11/2007 – 3:19 pm
I just ran across an interesting feature of the Safari 3 Beta for Windows. Apple has included a copy of Lucida Grande and Lucida Grande bold. But instead of dropping them into the main Windows font directory, where all apps…
IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine
12/1/2006 – 11:00 am
Microsoft has done a surprisingly cool thing – they have released a virtual machine for VirtualPC that has Windows XP pre-activated to make testing your design in IE 6 & IE 7 on the same machine even easier.
Virtual PC set free - further thoughts
7/13/2006 – 8:45 am
After my initial post about Virtual PC and subsequent mailings to a couple of Web dev lists that I am subscribed to, I had a couple of interesting conversations on what this release means and why/if it is important. The question…
Virtual PC Set Free
7/12/2006 – 4:49 pm
Microsoft has set Virtual PC free. Makes me wonder if the folks in Redmond have taken notice of Apple’s free BootCamp or Parallel’s Desktop app. Use Virtual PC to “run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch…
Right-click in XP on MacBook Pro
5/31/2006 – 10:41 am
Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro - This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.
Games on XP/MacTel
4/15/2006 – 9:52 am
Apparently some games running on XP on the MacTel run insanely fast - too fast in fact. To fix the speed issue, one has to tell the system to only use one of the procesors for the game. Good to…