John van Leeuwen

I needed to review my backup schedule. I was backing up way to stuff in my opinion. For example: I don’t need to back up my iTunes library, bookmarks, or movies every day. What I need to back up every day is my email!
I don’t know about your situation, but my email is also my [...]

Because I got my new MacBook, I needed to switch from Entourage to Mail. Why? Office is not yet universal, which causes the Office applications to be very slow. I spend most of my time in my email application, so it’s essential for me that my mail application works without hiccups and sluggish behavior.
Entourage is [...]

I stumbled on a really cool application created by Google called Picasa. I worked with this tool on Windows and really liked it. To be honest, I thought it was better than iPhoto, and I was a bit disappointed because (I thought) there wasn’t an OS X version available. Now I’ve discovered The Official [...]

I normally don’t write about the whole iPod hype, but in this case, I thought this was something worth mentioning.
Apple created a special edition iPod nano in the color red. Apple donates $10 of the purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa!
Apple, I’m impressed; very, very good stuff!
[tags]red ipod, apple, global [...]

Yes, today is the day that I can finally use my “build to order” MacBook. First impression… Freaking awesome! This machine totally rocks!
I did not really know what my expectations were, but this machine really exceeded them. But if I have to give some criticism about this MacBook, it would be the lack of an [...]