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Mac OS X on Windows XP

October 20th, 2004 · 2 Comments

There was something of a kerfuffle over the last week when CherryOS (page now disabled) claimed that Mac OS X could be used with any old Intel architecture computer as a virtual machine. As time passes, the website has gone missing and it seems more and more likely that CherryOS is a complete rip-off [...]

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Using Gmail As Your Default Mail Handler

June 17th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Matt Haughey wondered if there was a way to specify Gmail as the default Windows XP mail handler application.

There are a couple of problems with making this happen -- a) Windows wants to execute a binary in response to someone clicking an email link in a browser, and b) Gmail doesn't exhibit an obvious way [...]

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Blocking Ads and Other Nonsense

February 20th, 2004 · 3 Comments

Do you hate being forced to look at ads while you putter around the web? Me too. For that reason I've been blocking advertising servers with my own compilation of ad server filters for quite some time. The fantastic Firefox (formerly Firebird) browser/AdBlock combination makes this method seem redundant for browsing with [...]

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