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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Blogging, iMac, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air, Snow Leopard

Three for three: Friday's trifecta of Snow Leopard upgrades

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Aug 30th, 2009

If you joined us Friday night for the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard liveblog, you probably saw me say that I didn't have many issues with the upgrade. That's an understatement -- I think Snow Leopard is one of the smoothest upgrades I've ever performed with any operating system. You've probably already read the reports of fellow bloggers David Winograd and Mel Martin, which noted many similar findings.

During a four hour period after the delivery of my 5-install Family Pack by FedEx, I upgraded three Macs. The experience with each of them was slightly different, which is something you'd expect since all three are completely different models, but in each case the end result was essentially the same. All had about 10 - 15 GB more hard drive space than when I began, all were more "snappy" in terms of response, and the display looked crisper.

After surprising the FedEx delivery person with my HD video camera (yes, there's going to be an unboxing video coming later this weekend), I ripped open the box, pulled out the Snow Leopard box, pulled off the plastic, and then got the disk ready to go. I had done a final Time Machine backup of my MacBook Air just to make sure I had captured the last changes made on documents, so I plugged in the MBA's external SuperDrive and popped in the disk. I'm not exactly sure what I did after starting up the installer, but on the MacBook Air, I was asked to reboot the machine and then the installation began.

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Tags: bloggers, imac, macbook air, macbook pro, MacbookAir, MacbookPro, snow leopard, SnowLeopard, tuaw

Filed under: Odds and ends, TUAW Business

A peek inside the TUAW offices

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (RSS feed) on Jul 29th, 2009

Each day the TUAW crew awakes from our hyperbaric chambers, slides down the firepole in our historic 2-story firehouse and gathers around the Surface table to discuss what we're going to write about. Oh wait, that's in an alternate universe I just made up. In reality, the TUAW team is a diverse group of freelancers based all over the world, working from their home offices to find Apple stories for you.

There's no office except our chat room, no break room except our Twitter feeds and no daily editorial bull session with the team. It doesn't work like that. Instead, we all wake up at different times, read different sources, write different stuff and share different opinions. Everyone has a "day job" of some nature outside of TUAW, be it cubicle farmer or freelance pixel pusher. I'm pretty thrilled we've been able to do this for over four years now and our independence and focus hasn't changed.

While you can't take a tour of our real-world offices, some of our bloggers are sharing pics of their workspaces. Everyone has a very different setup, as you can see. Want to share your own setup? Tag a picture on Flickr with "tuaw" and we'll check it out.


Tags: bloggers, features, office, photos, tuaw

Filed under: TUAW Business

Yet another introduction

by Todd Ritter (RSS feed) on Dec 9th, 2008

Todd Ritter IntroGreetings, TUAW faithful! I'm Todd, and after writing for Download Squad for a year, I'm fortunate enough to be able to write for TUAW. A MacBook Pro is my primary machine and I'm rarely without my iPhone 3G (who isn't?).

By day I'm a systems admin for a school district in central Pennsylvania where I manage a network of about 1400 PC's, 600 Macs, and 35 servers (a handful of which run Mac OS X). I handle all of the Mac client management, system imaging, and podcast-related functions.

In addition to my day job, a few nights a month I teach at a local career institute covering topics like Apache administration, Active Directory management, and Cisco configuration. I get to work with small classes in hands-on environments which allow the students to get a taste of the real "IT" world.

Drawing from these experiences, I hope to offer insightful articles ranging from the use of Apple products in the classroom to creating Mac system images for mass deployment. I look forward to interacting, sharing, and learning from you and the other great TUAW writers!

Tags: bloggers, blogging, introduction, new blogger, NewBlogger

Filed under: TUAW Business

Reminder: You could be the next TUAW blogger

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Sep 4th, 2007

Just a gentle reminder that September 7th is the deadline to apply to be TUAW's next blogger (sounds like a really lame reality show, doesn't it?) and it is rapidly approaching. Send the following:
  • A brief bio
  • 3 samples of posts written in TUAW's style. One should be a review of something, another an opinion piece, and the third can be whatever strikes your fancy (existing blog posts cannot be used, this has to be new material)
  • Your current Mac setup
  • Your contact info
To apps-at-tuaw-com in plain text (no attachments, please). Also please recall that since we are, like, totally unfair and stuff you must be over the age of 18 to apply for a position at TUAW (which, by the way, is a paid gig. Pretty sweet, huh?). We're in the market for some generalists as well as specialists, so if you have something to say, or some information to share, we want to hear from you.

Tags: bloggers, tuaw

Filed under: TUAW Business

Want to blog for TUAW?

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Aug 22nd, 2007

Apple news never rests, but sadly humans need to sleep at least 2 hours a night (at least that's what I get). In an effort to bring you the best Mac news as quickly and accurately as possible we need some new blood here at TUAW.

Can you name all the cats that OS X versions have been named after? Do you know how to make your Mac do the darnedest things? Are you aware that Apple also makes computers? Then you might have what it takes to join our team of happy bloggers here at TUAW.

We'll be accepting applications until September 7th, so send the following things:
  • A brief bio
  • 3 samples of posts written in TUAW's style. One should be a review of something, another an opinion piece, and the third can be whatever strikes your fancy (existing blog posts cannot be used, this has to be new material)
  • Your current Mac setup
  • Your contact info
To apps-at-tuaw-com in plain text (no attachments, please). Notice that we are looking for plain text emails, folks. Sending an attachment is a sure way to take yourself out of the running.

We're looking for general bloggers as well as people who have an intense knowledge of a particular Apple technology (AppleScript, QuickTime, Final Cut, what have you). Generalists and specialists are both welcome!

And yes, this is a paid position (please be over 18 years of age).

Tags: bloggers, bloggers wanted, BloggersWanted, tuaw, tuaw loves you, TuawLovesYou

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Audio, Bad Apple, Apple

Apple gives up on Asteroid suit

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jul 14th, 2006

Remember that rumored Firewire breakout box (codename: Asteroid) for Garageband that was leaked to a few websites? You know, the one that Apple decided was important enough to sue said bloggers to find out who their sources were? Ahh, I thought you would.

Apple won the first ruling which would have made the websites turn over their sources, if said websites hadn't won the appeal. Apple has decided that it isn't worth their time to try and appeal that appeal, and so it looks like the bloggers won.

Finally, I can safely blog about all the inside Apple information I have.... so any Apple employees want to give me any dirt?

Tags: appeals, asteriod, bbc, bloggers, lawsuits

Filed under: Software

macZOT! offers SubEthaEdit

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Apr 25th, 2006

Speaking of free, those crazy folks at macZOT! are at it again. They are running BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com (what's up with all the caps?) in which several thousand copies of SubEthaEdit (totaling about $105,000 in software) might be given away. Why do I say 'might be given away'? Because the concept of the BlogZot is that a certain number of bloggers must write about it and submit their entries to MACZot! in order for the price to fall.

Tags: bloggers, blogzot, macZot!, subethaedit

Filed under: TUAW Business

New TUAW bloggers

by C.K. Sample, III (RSS feed) on Aug 26th, 2005

Just wanted to take a moment to point out something that some of you may have already noticed. We've enlisted the aid of two new bloggers here on TUAW: Victor Agreda, Jr. and David Chartier. You may know them both from DownloadSquad, and I am sure if you ever bother to read the comments here at TUAW, then you are more than familiar with Victor, who held our top spot in the commenter list in the side bar until yesterday when we enlisted him to blog over here. In any case, make them feel welcome....but not too welcome. Let the new TUAW blogger hazing begin!

Tags: bloggers, new, tuaw

Filed under: WIN Business

WIN looking for bloggers who are fanatical about downloading

by C.K. Sample, III (RSS feed) on Jun 21st, 2005

weblogs inc wants youIf you are a freak about downloading new freeware and shareware to your Mac or your PC at work, if you like to see how much spyware you can cram into your computer and discover all the interesting ways you can go about removing it without the IT guys in your department catching wind of your activities—in short, if you are an install new software junkie and you can write, Weblogs, Inc. needs you.

We're looking for some guinea pigs willing to endanger their personal computers people for a new blog we're launching, focusing on all the downloadable software goodness that the Internet has to offer. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, would be to download software, install it on your computer, play around with it, and then tell the world whether it is any good or not. Does this sound of interest to you? If so, send us a trilogy of sample blog posts to this link. We could especially use some Linux geeks.

Tags: bloggers, download, software, WIN

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