It’s three months today that I bought my Mac. For those daft enough to want to follow my thinking so far, see this series page. For those more sane, I must say that this is a decision I have considered periodically when replacing a computer, but hitherto not taken in twenty-odd years of making such [...]
Having been away, I find there are too many blogs to catch up with. These are some of the things I would have interacted with more if I had been around.
There’s always a constant low background buzz about creation and evolution. It’s been bursting out all over lately. I was particularly struck by Chris Tilling’s [...]
There are various pieces of software I use a great deal that I need a strategy for. The biggest beast among them is Adobe Creative Suite. This is a big expense, and there’s no way I’m going to be able to afford to upgrade it immediately after buying new hardware. Unfortunately I’m running CS2, so [...]
In a comment on yesterday’s post Chris Heard draws attention to Apple’s iWork suite. (I’m really pleased to have this advice from an avid user.) I left Pages off my list of word processors, partly because I wanted a short separate post on office software, and partly because I have an aversion to its template [...]
My first musings about choosing between another PC or a Mac got some helpful comments. I hope you, dear reader, will continue to help me out. Deciding on laptop only, or desktop + laptop is clearly a more finely balanced question than I had thought. I suspect (as I said in a comment there) that [...]
