Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Apple needs to learn from Kim Komando

Microsoft bCentral: Kim Komando - Why Windows has the edge over the Mac

Whoever it was at Apple that sent Kim that loaner iMac needs to go back to school. How about this quote from Kim:

I can practically see Phil Schiller sweating (or screaming) from here. Oh my. What a screwup.

Kim says that the Mac version of Windows Explorer is called "Macintosh HD". (!!!) OMG. She doesn't even realize that icon is her hard drive, which is called Macintosh HD. The equivalent of Windows Explorer is the entire desktop metaphor. The whole thing.

She found the iMac taking a couple seconds jumping between IE and Word. I'm guessing one of the two apps had been idle for a while and swapped itself into virtual memory. Maybe more putting more RAM in the machine would have helped -- I don't know enough about OSX's VM system to know for sure but my gut tells me it wouldn't have helped.

She called AppleWorks ClarisWorks.

Don't you think if they're going to give a loaner to someone that they should send someone along to give a 5 minute introduction to what the computer is about?

So what Apple needs to do is ship a DVD of QuickTime videos with EVERY Mac sold, not just the consumer models, that teach a Windows user how to use the computer, how to practically UN-learn Windows, or at least explain the Macintosh perspective on computing. Without that, there are going to be a lot more Windows users giving up on their iMacs and sending them back.

Jaguar makes it easy

Goal:

Print out documents from Cheryl's roaming wireless PowerBook. (it's actually on the island in the kitchen) The printer is connected to my PowerBook via USB, in my office.

Steps:

1) On my PowerBook, click the checkbox next to 'Printer Sharing' in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.
2) Print document from Cheryl's PowerBook.

When the print window appeared on Cheryl's computer, my printer was already selected. All we needed to do was click Print.

Rendezvous rocks.