Tricklin

I really like Macs. I've only recently become an owner of my very first Mac, and with this experience, have grown to love Mac over PC any day of the week. However, that is not to say that Macs are without their problems. In fact, my MacBook has given me nothing but troubles. I haven't had it for a full year, and I've already visited the Apple store 3 times.

• Reason for first visit: The hard drive couldn't be found.
• Solution: Entirely new MacBook
• Reason for second visit: OS wouldn't boot
• Solution: Archive and install
• Reason for third and most recent visit: Initially lost my iPhoto Library, and after some self-tinkering, OS wouldn't boot. Please know that the tinkering I had done in no way possible should have resulted in this sort of problem.
• Solution: Back-up user files, archive and install, create new user & copy old files to new user directories.

I purchased this computer in August of 2008. That's 3 visits to the Apple store in 9 months. Not good. After my most recent visit, my wife said something with which I couldn't disagree. She said "Apple is so arrogant." She's right. They have been touting their superiority over PC for quite a while now, however, I've had 3 too many problems with my very first Mac. So, to all the fanboys out there, let me let you in on a little secret. Apple is not perfect.

UPDATE (8/26/2008) 4 Times!!! This time I got an entirely new hard drive.

WordPress has really come a long way. They enlisted the help of the amazing designers at Happy Cog who have done a great job on the administration interface. I've just recently upgraded to this new version, and so far am really enjoying it. However, I picked the wrong time to do it as my beautiful baby daughter was born shortly after (more on this later), and some of the stuff in the upgrade rendered a few of my plugins useless. And since she was born, I haven't had the time to fix these up until now. All the issues are fixed now. I apologize if you came here before and noticed any issues. I plan on writing about this new upgrade in the future, however, I have more important things to take care of first.

The day has finally come! Since my POS HP took another crap on me, I've decided enough is enough. So I went out and bought myself a shiny new Mac. And I must say, I'm so glad that I did! I love this thing. It never ceases to amaze me just how much slicker a Mac is over a PC, and a majority of the reason is the software. Mac just has the coolest stuff. From dashboard widgets to GTD applications, owning a Mac has made these last few days a sheer joy.

Thanks to a great article by Paul Stamatiou, and some research I did on tons of other sites, I was able to find some really great applications. Here is a list of some of applications I've downloaded since last week:
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