Comments on: Using a PC http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/ Using the internet to make government more interesting Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:45:35 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul McElvaney http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-6950 Paul McElvaney Wed, 05 May 2010 07:19:41 +0000 http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/#comment-6950 Hey Dave, Glad you like it - The @learningpool team did deliberatly slow your machine down to see if you'd notice... if you're nice to us we'll also take the extra weights we put in so that its a wee bit lighter for you too! Great having you on board mate! Hey Dave,
Glad you like it – The @learningpool team did deliberatly slow your machine down to see if you’d notice… if you’re nice to us we’ll also take the extra weights we put in so that its a wee bit lighter for you too!
Great having you on board mate!

]]> By: Ady Coles http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-6937 Ady Coles Tue, 04 May 2010 08:35:59 +0000 http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/#comment-6937 We appear to have very similar tastes in Mac tools - DropBox, TweetDeck, Skitch. I also use EverNote for sharing information across computers, which adds the ability to categorise and tag (great for GTD) and also allows text search within images. I have a nearly-new MacBook Pro, rather than an Air, as I didn't want the restrictions that the Air had over and above the portability. Finding equivalent Windows software is a great difficulty as, I, too, sometimes need to switch back. (I use parallels on the MBP and iMac which I find to be v good.) Notepad++ is about as good as it gets, unless you want to get real techie and head towards emacs and vi under cygwin. Depending on what you want to do with the editor, perhaps the (ever growing) Eclipse is more appropriate. We appear to have very similar tastes in Mac tools – DropBox, TweetDeck, Skitch. I also use EverNote for sharing information across computers, which adds the ability to categorise and tag (great for GTD) and also allows text search within images.
I have a nearly-new MacBook Pro, rather than an Air, as I didn’t want the restrictions that the Air had over and above the portability.
Finding equivalent Windows software is a great difficulty as, I, too, sometimes need to switch back. (I use parallels on the MBP and iMac which I find to be v good.) Notepad++ is about as good as it gets, unless you want to get real techie and head towards emacs and vi under cygwin. Depending on what you want to do with the editor, perhaps the (ever growing) Eclipse is more appropriate.

]]> By: eDemocracy (eDemocracy) http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-6931 eDemocracy (eDemocracy) Mon, 03 May 2010 15:04:14 +0000 http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/#comment-6931 <strong>Twitter Comment</strong> <a href="http://twitter.com/eDemocracy" title="Twitter Comment" rel="nofollow"> <div class="ccimg1" title="eDemocracy (eDemocracy)" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;padding:0;width:60px;height:60px;"> <img name="cc_image" title="eDemocracy (eDemocracy)" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;padding:0;width:50px;height:50px;" src="http://purl.org/net/spiurl/eDemocracy"> </div> </a> [Global] DavePress » Using a PC: I’ve had a pretty settled tech line-up for a while, which works really well ... [link to post]<br /><br /> - <a href="http://chatcatcher.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Posted using Chat Catcher</a> Twitter Comment


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]]> By: Josh http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-6924 Josh Mon, 03 May 2010 12:15:06 +0000 http://davepress.net/2010/05/03/using-a-pc/#comment-6924 Interesting thoughts about the 'switch back' to Windows. As regards your iMac, you may want to peek into some of the Wine-based stuff for running Office. I've heard good things about running Office under CrossOver Mac, which may be more lightweight than the full on virtual machine. I use a late 2007 MacBook Pro for everything, which is pretty good if beginning to occasionally show its age. However, I've been amazed at its resilience and the extra abilities that tools like Wine have given it. In particular, my current computer game of choice does not exist in a native Mac version, but a fan has created a specialised Wine wrapper than negates the need to use Boot Camp! (virtualisation just wasn't powerful enough). Interesting thoughts about the ’switch back’ to Windows. As regards your iMac, you may want to peek into some of the Wine-based stuff for running Office. I’ve heard good things about running Office under CrossOver Mac, which may be more lightweight than the full on virtual machine.

I use a late 2007 MacBook Pro for everything, which is pretty good if beginning to occasionally show its age. However, I’ve been amazed at its resilience and the extra abilities that tools like Wine have given it. In particular, my current computer game of choice does not exist in a native Mac version, but a fan has created a specialised Wine wrapper than negates the need to use Boot Camp! (virtualisation just wasn’t powerful enough).

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