My name is Brian Jarrett and I'm a computer programmer and 
This past Monday my iPhone 4 arrived. For me, this is the device I’ve been waiting ten years for. For years I carried a phone, a PDA, and a pager for work. Even after I was able to get paging on my cell phone I still had to carry around two devices. I couldn’t access [...]
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Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 on the Mac
Posted: 16th May 2010 by Brian in ComputersTags: mac, mac switch, roller coaster tycoon 2
This is really the only PC game I’ve ever really liked. Turns out it runs great in Sun’s VirtualBox running Windows XP. The only caveat is to turn off the mouse integration while playing; that way the right mouse clicks work properly. Great to have this one back again. This is the only thing I [...]
Turning Off Windows
Posted: 9th March 2010 by Brian in ComputersTags: adium, beyond compare, camino, cyberduck, deltawalker, disklabel, faststone image viewer, filezilla, firefox, flip4mac, gimp, google chrome, gvim, h&r block at home, heritage family tree, ilife, imagewell, imovie, iphoto, itunes, iwork, jollysfastvnc, keepass, keepassx, keynote, libreoffice, mac family tree, mac switch, macvim, mediaface, microsoft windows, moneydance, mysql, neooffice, numbers, openoffice, opera, osx, pages, parallels, picasa, pidgin, pinnacle studio, quicken, quicktime, realvnc, safari, silvermel, swf & flv player, taxcut, text wrangler, thunderbird, tightvnc, truecrypt, vine server, virtualbox, vmware fusion, vnc
When I decided to switch to the Mac one of the first things I did was create an application to application comparison matrix in order to ensure I could find an comparable Mac replacement for all my important Windows applications. I found some great articles written by others who’d made the switch and that really [...]
DeltaWalker
Posted: 23rd January 2010 by Brian in ComputersTags: beyond compare, deltawalker, deltopia, mac, mac switch, scooter software
The Mac Switch Six Months In
Posted: 19th February 2009 by Brian in ComputersTags: apple computer, mac, mac switch
The iMac’s Mouse Acceleration Curve Sucks
Posted: 20th October 2008 by Brian in ComputersTags: acceleration curve, intellimouse, linux, logitech, logitech control center, mac, mac switch, microsoft
Mac Conversion
Posted: 19th August 2008 by Brian in ComputersTags: linux, mac, mac switch, microsoft windows, the missing sync, vista, vmware fusion
I finally pulled the trigger; I’m now a Mac user. About a year ago Traci’s laptop’s video card mysteriously died so we bought her a replacement desktop computer. We were tight on cash so we bought a low-end Dell running Vista. I’ve lamented since then on my frustrations and disappointments with Vista and Traci absolutely [...]
Why A Mac?
Posted: 11th September 2007 by Brian in ComputersTags: linux, mac, mac switch, microsoft windows
So, why a Mac? Well, I’ve done a fair amount of thinking about this decision and have come to a few conclusions. I need to upgrade within the next two years. My current box, although still quite snappy, will continually become slower and slower as software and operating systems (Vista, in particular) become more processor [...]
Consideration For A Mac
Posted: 4th September 2007 by Brian in ComputersTags: apple computer, linux, mac, mac switch, microsoft windows
For the past 8 years I’ve been toying with the notion of switching from Windows to either Linux or Apple. I consistently dismissed the idea either because Linux wasn’t quite capable of supporting the switch or because Apples were just too damn expensive. Granted, Microsoft has made significant improvements in Windows stability (and even security) [...]
