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So I went Mac/Apple

by Fred Mastro 4. October 2008 01:43

Ok I've been on the Windows side of things for.. since the MS-DOS days. Windows 3.1 etc...

I've always hated Macs, why? Because you couldn't run Window apps on a Mac. Because I never saw the need to have a Mac when a PC could do everything a Mac could do, even graphics wise, if you'd just buy real/decent hardware and not try and get some $800 sale computer to do your graphics.  If you had comparison apples to apples hardware then I figure you were good to go.  Also for 10 years my primary job was Windows Network Engineering, so of course I am way biased.  

Then I started to develop, on the side at first, VBA, VBScript, Classic ASP, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0... and Visual Studio's of course doesn't run on Mac....

Until Mac went Intel.  

Now that Mac is on Intel hardware the world has opened up.  You can now run Vista, XP OS on Mac pc.  You can get VMFusion and run it in "Unity" mode which runs your Window Apps on your Mac!  Crazy Stuff.

So I heard anyway.

Then my good, online friend, Mindshadow2k, kept hounding me how good the iPhone was... blah blah blah, does this and that.  I didn't listen at first, but then I kept seeing the commercials, and would take a stroll through the Apple store...  and finally started listening.

So I got an iPhone 3G...  and wow, I was blown away and how user friends and intuitive the OS was. Way more then my Windows Mobile Phone.  

I was so impressed that I started looking at the Macs.  If the iPhone is this good, I wondered what the Macs were like.

So again with Mindshadow2k, dumping hints into my ear, and with the desire to start developing iPhone apps and try and make some side money, I finally went and got a MacBook Pro.

I've installed Vista via BootCamp and running VMFusion, and I love it!

I can run all my window apps and all my mac apps (not that I really have any mac apps other then iPhone SDK).

The Mac boots up faster then I can reach over and turn on my windows machine.  It shuts down just as fast. It's amazing!

Well there you go, I'm tired of typing, well not really, I'm distracted easily :)

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A Certified MCSE (NT4 & 2k), MCDBA (2k), A+, CCA, with over 10 years of experience with Windows Networking and Development. Developing mainly in ASP.NET, VB.NET and T-SQL. Also develops in Objective-C (iPhone), XAML (SilverLight & WPF), C#, "Classic" ASP 3.0, ADSI,  VBscript, WScript.

Non-technical hobbies include other areas such as Movie watching (action, epic, comedy, some romantic comedy, well everything), Reading (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Detective and Programming categories), Film Editing, Directing with Special effects (using Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects), Dungeons & Dragons (D&D 4th Edition), Auto-Cross Racing & Cars (BMW M3, MazdaSpeed's), Motorcycles (Honda CBR 600), TV Shows (Flight of the Conchords, Lie To Me, Dollhouse, BattleStar Galatica, Smallville, Alias), Music (Akon, Billy Joel, Micheal Bublé, Bid Daddy Weave, T-Pain, Barlow Girl, Notorious B.I.G and more, love all types of music), and Religion (Christianity, debating and prophecies).


Web Tools - QuickLinks

Web tools I use more then others. Some of these are on my Link Collections page, but this made it easier for me to go to my site and click a tool.

  1. Telerik Code Converter (C# to VB/VB to C#)
  2. Lorem Ipsum - Dummy Text for Prototype Apps
  3. Web Color Values
  4. Open Source Icons

 

Highlights

  • Some websites I've worked on. This is a small collection of sites I've developed or added to awhile back.
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  • Revenge Movie Trailer. Trailer I made with Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Jason Christman is the main star and I'm the director behind the camera.
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  • Essential Software For your Mac. - I'm a Microsoft geek, but I've switched over to Mac. There was a lot of stuff I needed to get installed that I missed on my Windows machine. Also I had no idea how to do it :p Here's some help.
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  • Speed Football. I wanted to make a special effect like the Smallville or Superman running fast. All the other ones I've seen, the person in the frame was the only moving object while everything else was blurred. I wanted to create the effect but interact with another normal moving object.
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  • Code Snippets and Quickies. Sometims I find something or develop something that I think is useful and it can be copied and pasted anywhere for someone to use. Here's a collection of things I've posted on.
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    Books I've Read or Reading