Jay wrote up a lengthy How To on getting started with MacFUSE. Be warned, if delving into the Terminal frightens you this tutorial is not for you.
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How to use MacFUSE
Jay wrote up a lengthy How To on getting started with MacFUSE. Be warned, if delving into the Terminal frightens you this tutorial is not for you.
Download Squad running '12 days of holiday downloads'
Frivolous, cycle-wasting apps? Sure. Fun, holiday spirit nonetheless? You bet. Stay tuned to Download Squad for the rest of their 12 Days of holday downloads series for more ways to get your Mac in the holiday spirit.
Comparing iTunes to diet soda
Mr. Linspire himself, Michael Robertson, posted a little ditty about his love of diet soda. He then compares the short shelf-life of diet soda (Aspartame, in particular, doesn't last long) to the potentially limited life span of any DRM'ed music. His case is mycokemusic.com, which just went away once the iTunes invaded the UK. But he predictably turns his gaze to iTunes, the juggernaut of online music. The logic goes, DRM limits you, forces restrictions, which could hamper or completely invalidate your music collection someday. Right now, if you purchased a bunch of songs on iTunes and wanted to switch from an iPod to something else (people tell me others do in fact make portable music players), you would have to burn and re-rip your music as a bunch of MP3's. Or re-buy them all. Sounds like fun, huh? About as much fun as me copying the giant boxes of audio cassettes I have in the garage onto my hard drive, splitting up the tracks, labeling them, and storing them indefinitely. Always nice to see technology making life easier for us... The eternal question: DRM good or DRM bad? If Michael had his way, we'd all be rockin' to MP3's sans restrictions. But then, I don't see a lot of music labels knocking on his door...Microsoft to Apple: Happy Birthday!
What a grand gesture. Five more years of Office
wasn't enough, so Microsoft went the extra mile and released a fully-functional, virtualization app called VirtualPC XP
for Intel Macs... Nah! I'm just kidding. They popped a JPEG up on their site saying how happy they have been to ride on
the coattails of an innovator for the past 22 years. Or something like that. You can see the birthday card from the Microsoft MacBU to Apple here. It could
have been worse. They could have said: "After 22 years, and a decade-long headstart on the GUI, you are still
#2." I'm thankful for small favors. Truth is, Apple should be thanking Microsoft for sticking through the lean
times. Oh, and that infusion of cash a few years back didn't hurt (awkward to witness though). So thanks Microsoft, now
where's that new version of Virtual PC, hm?[thanks to Derrick G. for sending this in]
Now that you've turned your Mac into a PC, turn it into a Mac again
So you've done the
formerly impossible and unnecessary: installed Winders on a Mac. Cool, best of both worlds. But there you are, staring
at that awful primary color, jumbo crayon, sickly plasticky XP theme. Yeah, you could use one of the many mods featured on Download Squad (please, feel free). Or you
could turn your XP rig back into a Mac. At least, you can make XP look a lot more like a Mac. Engadget did this nearly 2 years ago, although
Aqua-Soft is still updating their content. Or why not go old school with an OS 9 flavor? Ah, that's better.











