I found out why I can’t name a calendar in iCal “Mason” today. This had been kinda bugging me, since my name is Mason.
Apple’s sync service (currently named “Mobile Me”) is nice when it does work. In my experience, it seems to be pretty reliable after you get it set up and working, but it [...]
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How to make Japanese input under Windows in VMWare Fusion on the Mac by a bilingual but predominantly English-using and multiplatform but predominantly Mac-using person less like eating a dogshit omelet
UPDATED 2009-10-30 for new shit involving Snow Leopard and VMWare Fusion 3.
This gives me a headache every time I try to remember it when setting up a new Windows environment, which is unfortunately quite frequently these days.
So at first I try to type for a while without doing it, using Windows’s fucking pinkie-finger shortcuts, and [...]
Mobile data card for Mac in Japan
Just an FYI to the world: if you need to get online via cellular in Japan, the FOMA A2502 HIGH-SPEED card from NTT Docomo works great. No crashes, supports 10.5 (and 10.4), and gives reliable 7.2Mbps down and 0.4Mbps up within the FOMAハイスピードエリア service area. (0.4Mbps up and down in the older service zone.)
They now [...]
my mac pro sucks loudly, wah
Executive Summary: the über-hightech fix for the insanely annoying pulsating humming noise coming from my piece-of-shit 2008-model 8-core Mac Pro
I’ve previously documented some of the ways that the Mac Pro I use at home sucks, but the many initial problems with it were eventually solved, so recently it’s been getting creative. First it started making [...]
Wil Shipley is a fucking genius
You know, just like me. But uh, the difference is, he writes it down.
My Japanese iPhone sucks, wah
After the servers stopped crapping out, and the line of people waiting to buy subsided, I finally got my Japanese iPhone. Anybody on the Internet already knows about the hardware (yep it’s great, despite a few remaining standout flaws, which have already been hashed to death).
But there are a few Japan-specific bits of suck:
In the [...]
my new iPhone sucks, wah
So I updated my iPhone (US original model) to the just-released iPhone OS 2.0. Now, just like hundreds of billions of other people around the world, I can only call 911. Pretty fucking lame.
(Clarification: No, this phone has never been hacked or jailbroken. Apple’s servers just (predictably) shit all over themselves when faced [...]
power windows for your Mac
From the Ars Technica review of Safari 3.1 (emphasis mine):
I now think Apple is actually pushing to make [Safari] a truly competitive Windows browser. Case in point: Apple fixed it so that you can resize the window by grabbing any part of the Window: top, bottom, left side, etc. When 3.0 beta came out, it [...]
more Mac OS X 10.5 full system crashes
All right, my new and not-quite-improved 8-core Mac Pro is really getting into the spirit of this Apple Bug Friday thing! That is to say, by hard crashing Mac OS X 10.5 in new and exciting ways, so I don’t have to waste my time hunting for those bugs to file.
I think he’s probably [...]
my new Mac sucks, wah
Lame. I really wanted to love this Mac. After spending a couple months traveling the globe (cool), and therefore suffering in the underpowered hell-world of laptop computing (lame), I was ready to get a workstation with real power to shuffle my daily bits around. So I bought the 2008-model eight-core Mac Pro. I loaded it [...]