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By: My First Mac OS Upgrade « John’s Adventures

My First Mac OS Upgrade « John’s Adventures — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:14:51 +0000

[...] can’t believe it’s been nearly 2 years since I became a Mac user. In many ways it seems like it was just yesterday but it also feels like [...]

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:04:06 +0000

Hi John — I’m sure it will be worth the wait. I imagine you must be bugging you to have a primary desktop (Mac) that doesn’t look as good as your virtual one (Parallels). :-}

Reminder that now that I have my very own Mac (well, from work), I’d be happy to provide alpha/beta-testing for you.

Oh, and you’ve got Media RSS support as of October. Hurrah!

I hope to be sending you another donation (for the Mac version) soon!

By: John Conners

John Conners — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:47:59 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately I’ve had an extremely busy year to say the least. Working flat out for a start up which was then acquired by a bigger company and been working flat out with that too. I did at least manage to get a new version of JBS out there but the trouble with creating a Mac version is I have to learn the development tools and language first to a high enough degree to make a decent product (I don’t do things by half measures). And while I’m working on a Windows version I can’t work on the Mac version at the same time – so I had to make the choice and work on JBS last year and not the Mac version. I’m planning on starting work properly on a Mac version in the New Year and getting that done before starting on JBS 4.0, which may bug some people but I’ve been wanting to build a Mac version for ages (well, ever since I started using a Mac) and I have to do it some time!

So my apologies for taking so long but I’ll get there in the end!

By: Darryl

Darryl — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:13:52 +0000

So John — it’s been over a year and a half — and still no JBS for Mac. :-{

Now that I’ve finally conned the folks at work into giving me a MacBook Pro (albeit with a broken trackpad button and battery with only 20 minutes of juice), it’d be nice to have all of my favorite photos show up on the Mac too.

Heck, I’d be happy if there were an OS X Screensaver that supported MediaRSS (why haven’t more people started writing apps to this standard??)

By: Jaime Suarez

Jaime Suarez — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:14:40 +0000

yes my son, I will also Leave the Darkside and Join the Rebellion

By: Hope W

Hope W — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:04:41 +0000

I’m not really sure how I found your page. But what matters is I found the PC and MAC dual quite impressive. Like you, I’ve been a PC user for years!!! seriously. I’m 34, and that’s all I know. I’ve just started seriously considering buying a MAC.. and I think your little short story here has convinced me to do so. I appreciate you taking the time to write about it, and in an honest fashion. Ah yes, the other thing I read was your take on the World trade center a year later. It was mad. And you’re right there is a lot of evil in the world. I hope Obama can turn things around for us here in the states. Best of luck to you. Oh yes, very funny pic of what people throw out… what the hell is wrong with people anyway? It’s the earth for god’s sake, not a trashcan. –Hope

By: John Conners

John Conners — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:39:04 +0000

Thanks Marc, that looks rather interesting, I’ll check it out!

By: Marc Z

Marc Z — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:57:56 +0000

Congrats on the Mac switch, John!

I noticed you use .NET for programming. I don’t know if you use Visual Basic, but you might check out REALbasic — it’s a cross-platform environment that will compile to standalone apps on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux from the same source code (the apps require no DLLs or support files to run, either). It’s great if you’re interested in doing cross-platform development — you can use your Mac to write apps for Windows. RB was created on the Mac but now has an IDE that works on all three platforms. It’s very fast and powerful and fully object-oriented.

By: Joe Yee

Joe Yee — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:01:55 +0000

Welcome to the Mac world I left Window about 4years ago .. am on iMac&Powerbook(PowerPC CPU)and my Wife on iBook till today I can only say Machintosh does thing better&easier eg with iLife &many more …
For me Mac only goodbye Window for info I did my wedding photo on iPhoto March 2003 when I just got my new iMac less than 5 days ….mac just work

By: John Topley

John Topley — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:13:27 +0000

Because the iPhone will be released next June.

Hopefully the iPhone will be released this June!

iPhone runs Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Welcome to the next level

No, the iPhone runs OS X. It’s an important distinction: http://daringfireball.net/2007/01/os_x