Switch from Windows XP to Mac OSX with Ease

Just in time for my new Mac Book Pro, idiosyncrasies.org has a nice list of applications that will help me Switch from Windows XP to Mac OSX with ease! Add those applications with Parallels and BootCamp, and now there has never been a better time to switch!  From the perspective of a current Mac user like myself this would be great for adding Windows XP to your current computer, but the real benefit here might be to give people who are not yet ready to abruptly switch from XP to OS X the ability to run both operating systems at the same time for a while on any new Mac they purchase. This is a very smart marketing move by Apple and I see minimal downside potential for them.

How to Open Popup Windows

Jehiah Czebotar has written a nice article that illustrates a best practice for opening popups windows.  He offers a solution that is degradable and semantically correct.  As he states in the beginning of the article he’s not only referring to methods to avoid pop-up blockers; this tutorial is more about writing clean code and keeping your site usable.

His solution is really very simple but you’ll want to take a look, and he also has updated his page a couple of times to reference a pop-up function created by another programmer, that makes for a more complete solution.

I love little HTML/JavaScript tweaks like this and I don’t restrain myself from posting even the most obscure ones on this site if they might have value to me personally in the future. If you appreciate that be sure and come back and visit Digital Media Minute often.