I've noticed lately some strange behavior with my MacBook. It's normally very silent, and the fan usually only comes during resource intensive processing (ie: games). But now when I view the embedded videos on Digg, from YouTube or Google Video, the fan spins up? What is it about the embedded videos that makes them so [...]

Apple has really hit the mark with the iPhone.

Well I'm watching the MacWorld live updates, and Steve Jobs has just announced the Apple TV. It features an Intel processor, 40GB HD, 720p HD video, 802.11 wifi, and the ability to auto sync content (movies, TV shows) from one Mac to the to the iTV. It can also do music and photos. Very [...]

As I've mentioned, I recently bought my first Mac; a 2.0 GHz white MacBook. So far I love it, but I do find that I max out the 512MB of RAM pretty easily when I'm doing web design or development and listening to music. So I decided to upgrade the RAM.

One of the first apps I installed on my new MacBook was OpenOffice. I love it; it's free, it gives me every bit of functionality I need for a home office user.
However, I was incredibly dismayed to find out that I needed to install X11 just to run it; it's not using OSX natively.