As I mentioned when we met at mesh, I work for a Microsoft partner, T4G. I'm a heavy Firefox user but, like you, need IE for a number of internal sites. I've found the Firefox extension IE Tab invaluable. Basically runs a proper instance of IE within a Firefox tab.
A great feature for our situation is to be able to specify sites, pages or full domains that should always open using IE Tab.
Keeping with's Dave's theme Picasa will help you get over the iphoto blues. Also Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) may help a bit with the quicksilver withdrawal.
Mark Kuznicki
· 2 years ago
OMG, it actually happened. David Crow is in MSFT, using Apple hardware and open source software and blogging about it. I'm truly impressed! Maybe Microsoft isn't evil after all. ;)
Congratulations on becoming Canada's Robert Scoble! And thank you Microsoft for gainfully employing the community shit disturber.
Neil Sanderson
· 2 years ago
Sheesh David, it's getting hard to keep track of you, but good luck in the new job! If you get one of those new coffee-table computers, can I come over to play? Nice to see you again at Mesh. Neil
John Lam
· 2 years ago
I'm surprised that you find Quartz superior to ClearType. It's a toss-up at best, with the slight edge to ClearType IMHO.
BTW, is it a company MBP that you have now? I recently upgraded to a 17' MBP and am quite happy with it.
Also, I run XP in Parallels & you will likely run into strange issues with lost network connectivity when you suspend / resume your Mac. Drives me crazy & there's a race condition between XP and OS X to grab a network connection and if they try to grab too close to each other in time, the network access point will lock you out. I solve it by quitting Parallels and then relaunching. YMMV with the network in Canada, but that's the way things are here in Redmond.
David Crow
· 2 years ago
John,
It's a corporate 15' MBP running 10.4.x and Vista in BootCamp. I gave it a go in Parallels, and the performance is just not quite what I'd like. But in BootCamp, it's smokin' fast.
There are a lot of IT related things to the network configuration that I love. The roaming profiles is fantastic, mostly because I am running a minimum of 2 machines.
All Comments
Hey David:
As I mentioned when we met at mesh, I work for a Microsoft partner, T4G. I'm a heavy Firefox user but, like you, need IE for a number of internal sites. I've found the Firefox extension IE Tab invaluable. Basically runs a proper instance of IE within a Firefox tab.
A great feature for our situation is to be able to specify sites, pages or full domains that should always open using IE Tab.
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
" target="_blank"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Hope that's helpful.
Good luck with everything.
DAVE
Keeping with's Dave's theme Picasa will help you get over the iphoto blues. Also Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) may help a bit with the quicksilver withdrawal.
OMG, it actually happened. David Crow is in MSFT, using Apple hardware and open source software and blogging about it. I'm truly impressed! Maybe Microsoft isn't evil after all. ;)
Congratulations on becoming Canada's Robert Scoble! And thank you Microsoft for gainfully employing the community shit disturber.
Sheesh David, it's getting hard to keep track of you, but good luck in the new job!
If you get one of those new coffee-table computers, can I come over to play?
Nice to see you again at Mesh.
Neil
I'm surprised that you find Quartz superior to ClearType. It's a toss-up at best, with the slight edge to ClearType IMHO.
BTW, is it a company MBP that you have now? I recently upgraded to a 17' MBP and am quite happy with it.
Also, I run XP in Parallels & you will likely run into strange issues with lost network connectivity when you suspend / resume your Mac. Drives me crazy & there's a race condition between XP and OS X to grab a network connection and if they try to grab too close to each other in time, the network access point will lock you out. I solve it by quitting Parallels and then relaunching. YMMV with the network in Canada, but that's the way things are here in Redmond.
John,
It's a corporate 15' MBP running 10.4.x and Vista in BootCamp. I gave it a go in Parallels, and the performance is just not quite what I'd like. But in BootCamp, it's smokin' fast.
There are a lot of IT related things to the network configuration that I love. The roaming profiles is fantastic, mostly because I am running a minimum of 2 machines.
I really prefer Quartz.