Reggie's Ramblings » Apple http://www.reggieburnett.com Musings on life and technology Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:37:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 My month on OS/X is finished http://www.reggieburnett.com/my-month-on-osx-is-finished/ http://www.reggieburnett.com/my-month-on-osx-is-finished/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:28:20 +0000 reggie http://www.reggieburnett.com/?p=333 Well, I’ve finished my month on OS/X.  It wasn’t really a month but rather a couple of weeks here and there.  To be honest I didn’t really hit too many situations where I felt like I needed Windows.  I didn’t have good luck with Chicken-of-the-VNC and the Mac version of remote desktop is not nearly as good as on Windows.  That being said I love the fact that iCal and Contacts sync with Google.

I’m writing this under Windows 7 but I’m typing it into the web UI.  I’ll likely hang out in OS/X a bit more as I have some video editing I need to do and iMovie just blows away any free products on Windows.

]]> http://www.reggieburnett.com/my-month-on-osx-is-finished/feed/ 0 One of the things OS/X does right http://www.reggieburnett.com/one-of-the-things-osx-does-right/ http://www.reggieburnett.com/one-of-the-things-osx-does-right/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:09:40 +0000 reggie http://www.reggieburnett.com/?p=291 I’m writing this on a 2008 Macbook Pro that I dual boot between Snow Leopard and Windows 7.  I spend most of my time in Windows but occasionally I pop into SL to test something out or use iMovie to edit some video.  From time to time, when OS/X boots, you get this nice System Update dialog that explains that some installed software on your system needs to be updated.  Here’s a shot of the one I just got.

What’s interesting to notice is that it is listing non-Apple products as having upgrade available.  My Epson printer drivers and Microsoft provided remote desktop client software are both listed.

Why can’t Microsoft do this?  Why do I have to manually check for upgrades for products like this?

Keeping a system fully updated is the easiest way to keep things running smoothly.  Microsoft does a nice job of this with system level patches and hardware components, but it does nothing to help keep my products updated.   Windows 7 gets a lot of things right but this one goes to OS/X.

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