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Living with Leopard: Book IV — Spaces, Spaces and More Spaces

November 1st, 2007

I feel real lucky to be using a 30-inch display, because I need lots of space on my screen with which to get work done. Now I have to tell you that the first Mac I brought into my home (after working at an office with one for several years) came with the famous Apple 13-inch color display. But I felt constrained, because I couldn’t even place the contents of a single page in a document on the screen without reducing its size to near unreadability.

I recall that I found a system extension in those days that hacked the graphic drivers to stretch the screen slightly, to eliminate most of the telltale black border of a CRT. Sure, I could buy a larger display, but if you think today’s 30-inch models are expensive, double that price to get a 19-inch circa 1990.

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Are There Really Mac Secrets?

August 2nd, 2007

What’s a secret? The conventional definition is “something kept hidden or unexplained.” Indeed, the word “secret” has found its way into lots and lots of Mac books and articles over the years, but many of them were not about what products Apple might be planning to deliver, even though they are the real secrets.

Instead, they refer to features of the Mac operating system that you supposedly don’t know anything about. Of course, nobody knows everything, and I dare say you couldn’t find a single developer at Apple who could recite all Mac hardware and software features off the top of his or her head.

But what do we mean by a Mac secret anyway? If it’s a real feature, why would it be hidden, kept from your eyes? Clearly everything that the Mac does was incorporated as part of years of development. Apple loves to tout the number of new features present in each Mac OS revision. It’s a powerful sales tool, and the higher the number, the better.

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