Google’s New Personalized Homepage

From slashdot.org
jgaynor writes “Citing user requests to coalesce it’s disparate services, Google today released its new personalized homepage service. It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support. Clearly a shot at existing services like My Yahoo.”

HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center

From engaget.com
Yep, everyone’s talking about using the Mac mini as a home media center, and there’s a reason why: its diminutive form factor makes it a good candidate to fit unobtrusively into an existing audio/video or home theater setup. It looks more like a consumer electronics device than a computer, so it won’t look out of place in your living room.

Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?

Thanks Dave Taylor
In a bit of a break from business analysis, I thought it would be fun to post one of my more technical articles to re-establish my “geek cred”, if you will. This article details the trials and tribulations of turning a perfectly good Apple PowerBook into a tri-boot system with Mac OS X, Yellow Dog Linux and Ubuntu Linux. Mac OS X is built of two components, Darwin, the BSD-based Unix underpinnings, and Aqua, the beautiful graphical user interface we Mac heads have all grown to love. However, there are other operating systems and other work environments that can be installed on an Apple system, based on popular open source Linux applications. If you’re looking for Intel-based versions of Linux,… In a bit of a break from business analysis, I thought it would be fun to post one of my more technical articles to re-establish my “geek cred”, if you will. This article details the trials and tribulations of turning a perfectly good Apple PowerBook into a tri-boot system with Mac OS X, Yellow Dog Linux and Ubuntu Linux.

Mac OS X is built of two components, Darwin, the BSD-based Unix underpinnings, and Aqua, the beautiful graphical user interface we Mac heads have all grown to love. However, there are other operating systems and other work environments that can be installed on an Apple system, based on popular open source Linux applications. If you’re looking for Intel-based versions of Linux, there are dozens and dozens, but the PowerPC chip cuts those options down quite a bit. I decided it’d be interesting to install the most popular Linux for PowerPC – Yellow Dog 4.0 – and an up and coming Debian-based Linux distro that’s getting quite a bit of buzz in the community: Ubuntu Linux.

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20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About

20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About by Scott Knaster — Even though Tiger has been out for a while now, many of its major features have nuances that haven’t received much press–and there a zillion minor tweaks to discuss. Scott Knaster takes you on a tour of clever, and sometimes even obscure, Tiger goodies.

Apple’s Music Store now selling videos.

From u-phonic.com

It appears that you can purchase certain music videos through iTunes and their Music Store. They are bundling them with the audio single releases as a bonus… Read More

Darwine: Run PC Executables in OS X

Although its still in its alpha stage and very buggy, this could be a promising app for any Mac user.
darwine.opendarwin.org