Rick's World

A few weeks ago, I bought a nice new Apple Macbook. It is the first laptop that I've owned in probably 5 years or more. My last laptop was an HP laptop with a 1Ghz CPU, and a 20GB hard drive. My new laptop has dual 2.2 Ghz CPUs and a 120GB hard drive.… more »

*sigh* Even when I have legal copies of Windows XP, it still seems to enjoy aggravating the hell out of me. I use a Mac Pro at home. I've written in the past about how great it was and how I could run Windows XP in a virtual machine so well that I… more »

Last week, on October 26th, I met with my friend Dave to buy our copies of Leopard. Not long after we finished installing we started trying out the various features of Leopard to see what was new. At one point, we got to trying out Apple Mail. This… more »

There's been a lot of talk about Leopard lately. This is the new version of OS X that will be released shortly for Apple's Macintosh computers. Apple announced months ago that it would be available in October. They just never said what day in October.… more »

My friend Dave mentioned his experiences with using a Mac Pro - specifically using Windows on the Mac Pro. This got me thinking about my experiences with Windows on a Mac Pro. While Dave is a pretty recent convert to the Macs, I've been using them… more »

Last week, I bought a Mac Pro. I have to say that I truly love that thing! It is so fast! It is the first computer I've had that could keep up to me... When I really get going on a computer, I have so much stuff going on at the same time that most co… more »

It's here! Yesterday I received my Mac Pro - exactly 2 years and 1 month from the day I got my old Powermac (and first *real* Mac). The new Mac Pro wasn't without it's share of small problems. When I ordered it last week, I made sure to ask if I… more »

A few months ago, I bought my friend Dave's old Mac Mini from him. This was the same Mac Mini that I sold to HIM a couple years before when I upgraded to my Powermac. He bought my Mini because he had heard me raving about how good the Mac was and he wa… more »

Recently, my web hosting provider offered me a free one year membership to a new site called Bandwagon. Bandwagon, is an online service that offers to provide online backups of your iTunes library. They offer the service for $24 a year. At first my… more »

It's not very often that I write about AOL, and its even rarer when I write to complement them, but this is just too cool. AOL just released a Mac version of the AOL Radio software! I used to love listening to the Windows version of AOL Radio (called N… more »