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Couldn't help myself. Tried the Simpsonize me site Dave mentioned: http://simpsonizeme.com. My photo didn't have enough contrast to really work, but it was fun to customize.

Posted: October 20, 2007 5:54 pm | 0 comments
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Testing the new Mac operating system: Leopard

I'm one of the first testers at Simmons to be using Leopard, the latest Mac OS X release: OS X.5. It's dangerous to be using a brand new OS on my work machine, but I've sacrificed myself for the cause of seeing what does and doesn't work. The Help Desk's Senior Support team will be working with a few Leopard testers, and testing Leopard themselves, in the coming weeks to determine the utility of Leopard for Simmons users, and how best/when to upgrade folks.

We're thinking about using the Simmons blog as a way to share information among early Leopard adopters. We look forward to seeing how the blog works for this purpose!

Posted: October 31, 2007 8:27 pm | 0 comments
Tags: Mac Leopard OS, OS testing

Windows Vista-based comparison/review of Mac Leopard OS

This isn't an endorsement, but here's a review Aran Gilmore referred to some of us: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/macosx_leopard.asp

And my thoughts about it:

• Interesting points re: time machine limitations. I'll have to try the "archive" feature in mail--wonder if that's going to be actually useful (i.e. being able to save attachments with archived mail?).
• But what he surmises about Notes within Mail isn't quite what I've assumed. I've assumed they added notes to Mail so there's somewhere to sync Notes with the iPhone. It wouldn't work with iCal. Didn't make sense with Address Book or photos. So it gets thrown into Mail where other miscelleous stuff goes.

Glad I had time to read it.

Posted: October 31, 2007 8:31 pm | 0 comments
Tags: Mac Leopard OS