My MacBook Wind

Ok. So, like my love life that's now officially vamoosed -- dead, I may have been severely over optimistic about the whole thing. But hey, I was able to put OS X on my roomie's Asus 1000H with nothing but my (previously) trusty msiwindosx86 DVD installer! I mean, it's just gotta work somehow - as sure as the sun rises every morning, being able to install Leopard with the msiwindosx86...

Ladies and gents, please welcome, the HP Mini 1000! Err, actually, the HP Mini 1001TU or so says the label on the box along with the part/product no. and the serial no.I'll play around with this little drop dead gorgeous baby for a while with its stock Win XP Home and then I'm proudly off the races to OS X-ify it - bring it ...

Did you want to save those nifty Apple how-to movies for watching later when you're offline or just for reference?I did too. In fact, I even checked out the iTunes store to see if they were available for download as podcasts like the Apple Quick Tips. No luck with that. Then I tried sneaking off to IE's temporary internet files folder under my user's account in Document and...

Like all yuppies I have a pressing need to stash up for the rainy days (i.e. when the company decides to chuck me for good due to the worsening economy). However, I think I've been exposed to a viral epidemic that is the netbook craze -- started by Asus of course with their Eee PC 701. And so here I am, aware of the impeding danger yet unable to fully grasp it, the truth held...

Last week, I decided to take a leave from work and, yup, I tinkered with my netbook. I tried to experiment with external monitors and graphics drivers just for kicks. I felt like it so I did it.I was following a thread over at the msiwind.net forums and although I knew there was some issue with enabling mirroring mode, guess what? I still tried it.Both displays conked out as soon...

I don't like Calculator's looks. Not that it's ugly, the calc widget just looks better. But you're not able to access it in your desktop because its being held prisoner by Dashboard's "layer". When you're in Dashboard, the Desktop is dimmed and you'll have to leave the layer before you can get back to what you were working on. Now of course you've heard about tweaks, some...

I voted in a poll over at msiwind.net for OS -- I assume, by OS, they mean the OS you're running on your Wind and here's an interesting discovery:Mac OS X is finally getting ahead of Windows -- well, in this kind of game, at lea...

Maybe I should already get me a real Mac. But I can't, don't have enough cash on me to pay for one, even on 0% installment basis (my S.I.P doesn't allow me that amount). Now with the looming probability - yep, not just possibility - of me joining the pool or poor Cunem-yuppie's (Currently Unemployed Young Profesionals), I'm in no ready state to be swiping that credit card any...

And the charade goes on; me, being the Mac/Apple fan girl wannabe, downloaded Mactracker. I even downloaded two versions: one for my MacBook Wind (oh, don't I love saying that name!) and one for my Windows office PC. Mactracker is great application for learning about Macs. It's sort of a Mac history book if you will, offering information on the different Mac models that...

Argh!!!Why didn't I see this one first? I hate Quick Silver and I hate it still! I thought I had to marry the guy and so I did and had little non-descript scripts such as "HeadPhones" and "switch.sh" litter my Macintosh HD, thinking all the while that this was necessary!But it turns out that I could've opted for Audieee on my wind as well :(And I wouldn't have had to go through...

Color me prejudiced. Apparently Quick Silver is a shining beacon -- or better yet, the shining beacon -- in the world of Mac users / geeks. Perhaps my being only a Hackintosh user / geek is reason for the lack of that certain X factor determinant of the aforementioned species. Or perhaps having another "Menulet" crowd my menubar is just purely disgusting to me. But for what...

I recently discovered that I can streamline my "emptying the trash ritual" by subtracting one step from it; "Empty Trash securely".Just open Finder's preferences (easiest is by pressing command + , )Enable option "Empty Trash securely". Close it. And the next time you open Trash in Finder, this is what you get:Now if only I can find out the equivalent of "Shift + Del" on...

According to news from cultofmac.com, Psystar, the Apple clone maker which Apple itself has sued is given a second shot at proving that the Cupertino based company "misused its copyright".I'm thinking of the Apple EULA: "Thou shalt not defile OS X by installing it on (inferior) hardware (i.e. PC's) that does not bear the Apple logo..."Now I don't know much about software legal...

So I was browsing for free apps, particularly free games at the apple website (idle hands to be blamed solely for this) and look what I found:Not freewa...

Just fiddling with my beloved MacBook Wind again during the weekend. I decided to give coconutBattery a try.Here's what I get:My MacBook Wind is apparently already 6.5 something years old if we do the math :) And I only got my MSI Wind September last ye...

iBook G4 14" LCD1.4 GHz G4512MB RAM60GB ATA/100 4200 rpmSlot-Loading SuperDrive DVD±RW/CD-RW14.1-inch (diagonal) TFT XGAATI Mobility Radeon 9550Wi-Fi 802.11g & Bluetooth 2.0Mac OS X version 10.4 TigerFor Php 20,000Or I could get the HP Mini 1000 for PhP 21,995 but this isn't really as compatible as the Wind is to OS...

I knew it was a bad idea to stop by at the local mall where gadgets, specifically netbooks, abound like popcorn in movie houses. But what could a mere, netbook-lover/addict, like me do? There was simply no fighting the urge so I followed my feet where they led me.That's when I came face to face with the HP Mini 1000. The moment was just as fatal as the day I met the first...

So here I am with this latest post, chronicling my experience with installing OS X Leopard on two different machines, the Asus 1000H and the MSI Wind. Both run OS X Leopard great but based on my experience, the MSI Wind, though lacking in "aesthetics" points (depending on each's own opinion) gives the more pleasant OS X experience in that I'd had significantly more trouble installing...

Although  Steve Jobs claims that he cannot make a $500 computer that is not a "piece of junk", we can't deny the fact that Apple's elite MacBook Air, whose thinness could well snag the America's Next Top Model title, shares some obvious features and to some extent, the lack thereof, with the lesser netbook flavors of the masses. $1,799  vs. $500...

If you were like me and opted for the U100X Linux version of the Wind which came with a larger 160gb capacity hard drive as opposed to the Win XP Home version's 80gb, you're missing one feature: bluetooth.The Win XP Home with bluetooth and 80gb model originally sold for Php 24,999 while the Linux sans bluetooth but with 160gb drive model cost only Php 19,999. After doing some...