Mac Mania
I’ve always loved my platform and I could never understand why anyone would want to use anything else. On May 14 of this year (the Best Day Ever), I got my new iMac. She’s a beauty and this operating system is amazing in ways even non-Mac devotees have had to laud. After tinkering with it and stretching it and fitting into it for a few months now, I want to do more. Granted, I already run this site and all related sites and sub-sites and that’s as time-consuming enough as it is, I want to do more for the Mac.
I’m sure this sudden need to do more has been instigated by the recent acceptance into the fold of two relatives who have ditched their PCs for Macs, one an iBook and the other an iMac. It’s better out here with the other 5% of us. As they learn their way around and ask questions etc, I wish I did more for this platform that has succeeded because of better ideas as everyone else runs after it. There’s a Mac user group in my city, but it’s meant for people who use Macs in a “business environment”. It sounds like a) they’re snotty business people b) they’re of a certain age group I don’t hang out with c) they may not appreciuate my non-business Macdom and non-business background altogether. I want to do something else with this. I want to have other people on iChat talking about the best new widgets, I want to collaborate with someone on a project via SubEthaEdit. Why do other bloggers love that program so much? I want to know how people use Automator and which navigation system they use on their Macs and which system upgrades are good and which ones are not.
The U2 site keeps me busy, but sometimes there just isn’t enough going on in U2World or just not enough of the right thing in U2World to really get in there and wrestle with the iMac. I hacked my iPod the other day for the heck of it. I wish I knew how to do more things like that. I know there’s a lot of documentation online but there are times even wordlovers like me get sick of reading black on white.
Posted on August 28th, 2005 under General, Tech • 
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