Archive for the tag 'mac'

Jan 12 2010

How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3)

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I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac OS Sync app. Since I was at it I decided to test also Prezi, a [...]

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Oct 17 2009

How to avoid frustrations with BlackBerry and Mac

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Just don’t buy that combo: Mac and BlackBerry are two very closed environments, they don’t want to be interoperable, they hate each other and their customers.
Not that I would make such mistake, never. But I have friends that do this kind of stuff and then I’m enough of a friend to share with them the [...]

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Oct 04 2008

Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (3/3)

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After two days bashing Apple, here is the good stuff as promised.
iWorks is good stuff. Keynote is simply amazing: everything is where it should be, the templates are gorgeous, animations are fluid, automatic aligning of pasted items is superb. Pages is beyond any wordprocessor out there. I haven’t used Numbers enough because I don’t have [...]

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Oct 03 2008

Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (2/3)

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Yesterday I described the bad things I found with my year experience with a Mac. Today it’s the day of the ugly stuff.
The ALT-TAB (or CMD-TAB, in Mac world) has the stupidest behavior ever. It cycles through the open applications, not the open windows. For being an OS based on the documents, not the apps, [...]

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Oct 02 2008

Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (1/3)

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When I started working at Funambol, Hal asked me what kind of computer I wanted, PC or Mac? At that time I had suffered some frustration with my usual setup, using GNOME. I was especially frustrated by the mail program Evolution while using GnuPG encryption and its lack of support for ‘discussions’ like Gmail. Also, [...]

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Sep 09 2008

It crashes, it crashes

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The first time it crashed was when I first got it, brand new.’  I unpacked it, booted it, attached the Samsung OGG player… nothing showed up on the desktop, so I removed the player and BOOM!
Then it crashed again, but I couldn’t replicate the error. Today it’s the third hard kernel crash in eight months. [...]

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Jul 30 2008

Will I get an iPhone?

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Many of my friends keep asking me what I think of the iPhone, if it’s good and whether they should buy one. They are all non-techie people that want a very good phone and are willing to pay the extra money for a good handset that does email and web navigation, and a decent phone [...]

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Jul 12 2008

Funambol on Mac OS X, part 2

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Update Jan 12th 2010: the best way to sync Funambol on Mac OS X is to use the official Mac OS Sync app. Check How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3).
Yesterday I talked about SyncEvolution as one of the two options to sync contacts on Mac OS X using myFUNAMBOL. Today it’s time [...]

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Jul 11 2008

Funambol on Mac OS X, part 1

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Update Jan 12th 2010: the best way to sync Funambol on Mac OS X is to use the official Mac OS Sync app. Check How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3).
While the world goes crazy with the iPhone, I decided to spend some time testing the two options for syncing on Mac OS [...]

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