iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

You may have heard about the article on beer I got submitted to Slashdot – that was a good story about health research at Western, and I’m glad I was able to share it. Today I submitted a story to digg.com, with a less noble motive. digg.com is one of those new Web 2.0 sites… Continue Reading My story on digg.com – not dugg

In Mac OS 10.3 all the messages for each inbox was stored in one file with a .MBOX ending. These files could be backed up and swapped when Mail.app (The geeky name for Apple’s Mail program) wasn’t running. This made creating backups and restoring them very easy. The most compelling reason to use Mail.app is… Continue Reading How to recover from Mac OS 10.4 E-Mail problems.

Apple is getting everyone excited abou their Oct 12 event (Apple stirs product speculation over Oct 12 event, Washington Post). Given that I was right about the G5 PowerBook never coming I’m going to speculate on this one too, we’ll see how I do. The ‘One more thing’ will be a second core on the… Continue Reading Apple Oct 12 Event: One more thing

Recently Steve Jobs, head of Apple Computers, responded to a question about pirates running pirated versions of the latest Mac OS on PCs by saying “Pirates will burn in hell“. One interesting thing to note is Microsoft, the creator of Windows which runs (as far as statistical significance) every PC on the planet uses an… Continue Reading iBook == Pirate

My Saturn’s let me down and I have to find a new car. 🙁 Despite the bit of white smoke the Saturn had coming out the tail at high RPMs, Saturn’s rings are still good. I won’t go into what’s up, not until I’ve gotten rid of the car, but it’s minor but major. I’m… Continue Reading Saturn SL2-tired-to-go-on