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So, I switched to using a Mac. I’ve been evaluating a number of OS lately, for my personal use, and decided on an Apple Powerbook G4 as my primary home computer. I picked Apple on the strength of OS X, which is awesome.
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I brewed up some beer yesterday, this was an all grain brewing session. My last two all-grain attempts each had their challenges, stuck mashes and equipment issues that made them a pain. I did some …
I’ve been reading that a nightly glass of red wine can help with your cholesterol, lower your risk of prostate cancer and is good for your heart. Plus, it’s loaded with delicious alcohol.
But how good …
I love my job, we make products and provide services that actualy help people, rather than pushing useless crap that people don’t need.
One of the perks of working here is our campus; it’s amazing. Here …
Drysuits are necessary for Scuba diving here in Southern California; the water is cold, usually about 55 degrees. Drysuits however are not cheap, $2000 to $3000, and require annual maintenance to keep them in tip …
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I just took posession of a new MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz). Quite an upgrade over my PowerBook G4 800 MHz which sits dormant, awaiting a new purpose. Interestingly enough my PowerBook ran 10.4.9 quite well but certain apps were bogging it down.
One thing you’ll find is Intuit’s awful produt offerings for Mac. Quicken and QuickBooks are subsets at best and laiden with issues if you believe the ‘net. I didn’t even bother trying them – I run Parallels instead.
Intuit is the Microsoft of financial software. It’s used the world over but everyone wishes there was something better.
Tip: forget what you know about Windows during your Mac transition. Be open to new ways of doing things, even abandoning your former ways. I’ll never go back to Windows as a primary OS – in the foreseeable future anyway.
“Intuit is the Microsoft of financial software. It’s used the world over but everyone wishes there was something better.”
This is true, but we are improving them and we have a bunch of people now using Macs as there primary computers here.
For those of you that don’t know, I work at Intuit and do web marketing for Turbotax.com