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'Is Apple Catholic?'

Submitted by Jeff Geerling on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:53am
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Regardless on your thoughts of the Mac/Windows divide (or, I guess, the iPad/vaporware divide ;-), you have to acknowledge that Steve Jobs has had an extraordinary influence on the daily lives of much of the world, through his work in the early days of Apple, promoting the personal computer, to the modern day mobile computing experience.

I wish him well, and hope that the industry can continue to innovate at the same pace with a less prominent Steve Jobs. I have often prayed for Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other industry leaders and influential tech pioneers, so they can realize their influence on the lifestyles of many people and try to help people become more fully human, rather than 'slaves of the machine.'

Speaking of which... are smartphones the new idols?

Catholic Calendar as First App in 'Lifestyle' Category on Mac App Store

Submitted by oscatholic on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:52am
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Today I was browsing around the Mac App Store, glancing around to see some of the Apps available a few days post-launch (I didn't do this earlier because I was working on my own app—more on this later).

What I found surprised and elated me:

Catholic Calendar Mac Store App in Listings

Looks like the 'Catholic Calendar' application, developed by Universalis, is shown as one of the featured 'Lifestyle' applications, and is even the icon tile for the Categories overview page.

It'd be nice if the app had a more Catholic icon (the Latin text just doesn't set it off for me... look at the other icons - most of them are very simple/pleasing, and convey more meaning), but I'll take what I can get!

Does anyone else have a Catholic Mac App out there yet? Additionally, does anyone know who works with Universalis to keep on top of the game in this area? They've been doing a smash-up job lately in the mobile and desktop application world, amidst a field of thousands of other apps.

Just loaded Snow Leopard

Submitted by catholicservant on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 12:53pm
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Hit the Apple store at Ridgedale around 11am this morning. Place was packed. Line for Snow Leopard was about 5 deep but moving pretty quickly.

Grabbed Subway, then to the home office to do some loading.

I thought I read somewhere that's it's a 15-20 minute upgrade...uh uh. Took almost an hour. While I was waiting, I putzed around on my XP machine while watching the Macbook out of the corner of my eye.

After a few reboots...upgrade complete.

I haven't really tried anything yet, but I did note shutdown and startup times. 

Shutdown - 5 seconds (no open applications)

Startup - 75 seconds

It's possible that the first shutdown/startup sequence may still be shuffling some bits and in the future it'll be even faster...but I'm pleased. Opening up applications seem a bit snappier.

I've got a 17" MacBook Pro (2008 model), 2.5 Ghz Intel Dual-core with 4GB of RAM.  

Looking forward to trying out the Exchange Server integration, see if it actually works. I've been dropping into Parallels to run Outlook 2007...and even though it's bearable running a VM, I'd prefer not to.

Anyone else moving to SL?

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