Articles related to Macworld. Typically links to articles I’ve written for macworld.com.
This week, Apple's homepage changed to read "The first 30 years were just the beginning," in anticipation of next week's Macworld Expo. What's it all mean? Here's what I think it's all about. Almost guaranteed to be wrong, of course!
The following is most of everything I wrote for Macworld in 2006, though there are a few missing…
In case you haven't heard, the next release of Microsoft's Office for the Mac will lack one major feature: support for Visual Basic (VB). This core technology is what allows one to record macros, and it works basically the same on both Windows and Mac. But the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft has discovered that porting the code to Intel would be very hard...so they decided to just drop it completely.
I think this is a really bad mistake, and wrote about why in this opinion piece for Macworld.
After struggling for many months to solve an odd color fading issue with videos I encoded using H.264, I decided to get serious about solving the problem.
After much Googling, I found an answer and wrote it up for macworld.com, in case others are being afflicted by the same problem.
Much like my work with the Intel Core Duo mini, you can now read about the new Mac Pro (parts one, two, three) on macworld.com.
I spent the better part of a week poking around inside the machine, running benchmarks, playing with Rosetta and native apps, and testing games (both Rosetta and native). While not quite as in-depth as the piece on the mini, there's still a lot of content to be read.
While out on a recent business trip (OK, so it was the MacMania V Geek Cruise, but I was working!), I learned that Macworld had purchased a Mac Pro for my use. When it arrived, I was surprised to find how quickly I filled all four drive bays.
While flying to Tampa for the MacMania cruise, I had a chance to really put my new 80GB iPod to the test--I had purchased a couple of movies from the Music Store, and was anxious to see how well the iPod worked as an in-flight entertainment device.
So how'd it work? Well, I had a very non-standard experience, which I wrote up in this editorial at macworld.com, along with my general observations on using the iPod as a movie viewer.
Fellow Macworld Senior Editor Dan Frakes and I have just returned from a week on a Geek Cruise in the western Caribbean. We both wrote quite a lot, and took a bunch of pictures. So instead of linking to a huge collection of articles, I'll just link to the two relevant sections on Macworld's site, where you can find everything: the MacMania archives for October 2006 and November 2006.
Macworld's site has changed over the years, and there's no longer a section for each cruise. So here's everything from this trip that I was involved with:
Separately, I posted some of my scuba diving pictures from the trip here on robservatory.com.
I recently attended and spoke out MacCamp, the Portland Macintosh Users Group's semi-annual Mac fanatic getaway.
It's a unique experience in a unique atmosphere, as I wrote in this piece.
In this piece for Mac911, I explain and demonstrate on video the Safe Sleep feature in newer Apple portables.