All Posts by Danny Choo with tag "macintosh"

Pre-ordered these limited edition K-ON! CD's from Amazon and they just arrived - thought I'd share whats inside.

Its been about 9 months since the Mac Life 3 article and I've been stocking up on Mac bits n pieces for today. The first photo is the latest office layout - taken after Tokyo CGM Night Episode 3 in Harajuku.

Was featured in Mac Fan - one of Japans major Mac magazines.

Video taken on the day of the iPhone launch in Tokyo. Footage of just the queues alone would have been boring so I thought I'd spice the video up a bit by attempting to "dance." Thanks to Hector for filming and to Akihabara News for the loan of th...

As some of you know, my MBP (MacBook Pro) decided to die on the day of my speech in Germany last month. Arrived back in Japan without the use of my main machine but was able to get back up n running within a short amount of time. First thing I don...

When my wife came back home with the MacBook Air I started to laugh - laugh at how small the MacBook packaging was.

If you are following the Mac scene, you will already know that Steve Jobs yesterday announced the worlds thinnest notebook - the MacBook Air. If you have time, watch Steve's keynote speech. Highly entertaining and amusing. Even if you are not inte...

And just what does this idol Mihato Ise have to do with the Leopard launch last Friday? Mihato was part of the leopard launch festivities at Yodobashi Camera in Akiba. She must have had a shock as only 30 people lined up for their copy ^^; But I...

A quick look at the new wafer thin apple keyboard and how its helped me organize my workspace a bit better. Been waiting ages for a decent keyboard to come out for the mac. Never did get used to the previous bulky one.

Update: Video by <a href="http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2671" target="_blank">James</a> just added to the end of the post. For those who don't follow the <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/" target="_blank">Apple scene</a> and think that this is an <a href...

The new iMacs are out but I'm more interested in the other stuff that Steve announced in his Keynote. For a start, I love the new wireless keyboard. Need to test it out in the store before I buy but its the right size and looks great. Another th...

The iPhone. Not Japan related (yet) but definitely otaku related - especially when you get a bigger screen to look at your ero images during that important lecture or when your CEO is running up n down shouting "I love this company!"...(MS) Not fo...

Been waiting for this day for months. The MacBook Pro that I had before belonged to Microsoft and I had to give it back when I left. Since then, I have been using my PowerBook G4 which is painfully slow. I'm surprised I managed to develop on it for s...

A few of you asked how Mac life was lately. Been using my MacBook Pro since last Nov and cant believe how fast it is compared to my previous PowerBook. Ran into a few annoyances when moving my data over from the PowerBook - mainly permissions and a f...

Just for those who asked for it – the old flash header is back. Sorry to keep have kept you waiting - you can click on the "Display old header" in the subnav on the top page (top index page only for now) to switch and save the old flash header. When...

When I introduced the polls to the site, I only knew of one method to do it and that was to use iFrames but I am glad to say that I've finally been able to do the polls using Ajax - but not without *many* sleepless nights... So that you dont have to...

After the last Software Update ( it could have been a security update - I forget ) for my powerbook, I had problems connecting to MYSQL and couldn't perform anymore GD functions on localhost. Using phpinfo() to see what on earth was going on I saw......

<style type="text/css"><!--.style1 {color: #0000FF}.style2 {color: #000000}--></style>So I read most of the "penultimate-tutorial-to-installing-php-mysql-apache-gd-on-tiger" and you know what? They just don't work - most of those tutorials being abou...

<div class="BlogImgContainer"><img src="/blogimg/switch_3.jpg" alt="The Switch 2" width="400" height="300" border="0" class="BlogImg" title="The Switch 2"></div>I have some fantabulous news - my wife has given into my Mac sales talk and accepted the...

<img src="/blogimg/paparazzi.jpg" alt="Long webpage screenshots on Mac OS X with paparazzi" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" title="Long webpage screenshots on Mac OS X with paparazzi"> A designer web developer needs to from time to time take a long...

<div align="center"><img src="/blogimg/not_responding.gif" alt="OSX does not Crash?" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" title="OSX does not Crash?"></div> I have made the switch for a few months now and while I do find that OSX is easier to maintain a...

<img src="/blogimg/mac_life.jpg" alt="Mac Life" width="400" height="533" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" title="Mac Life"> Well its been 3 months since I made the switch to Mac after about 9 years of using Windows as my main machine and I can tell...

<img src="/blogimg/powerbooks.jpg" alt="Syncing your Macs" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" title="Syncing your Macs"> In a previous post I remember recommending you to have about 30GBs for your system drive after partitioning your drive - I take ba...

Backing up your data is not something to be taken lightly - which is why I don't (take it lightly). Back when I first got my PC, I used to think that viruses where things created by Norton and Mcafee so that they could stay in business. That was unti...