Author: John Hamilton Farr

John Hamilton Farr first met MyMac publisher Tim Robertson at Macworld San Francisco in 2000 and has contributed numerous reviews and articles since then. The author of Taos Soul, Buffalo Lights, and dozens of columns for Horse Fly, a monthly Taos newspaper, he has published online relentlessly since 1997 and currently writes at 7,000 feet from Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A.

MyMac.com Rated 19% Evil

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I am not making this up. According to the Gematriculator of the Sect of Homokaasu, MyMac.com is 19% evil. Wow. I wonder if Tim

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Delirium & Madness

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More shameless self-promotion, as the saying goes, that has not a whit to do with PC vs. Mac or whether I know best how

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Rocks and Bones

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That’s the title of my latest Web column over at JHFarr.com. I could just as well post it here, but I need to drive

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Anniversary

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I’ve been married for 26 years today. We’ve been together almost 30 years. it was all born of a falling-in-love of unmatched ferocity and

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RapidoSMTP Rocks!

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This will be relatively short and sweet. It’s certainly sweet, anyway. I’ve been away at a conference/music camp called ZoukFest 2007 in Santa Fe.

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RapidoSMTP Sucks!

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When I got home, I discovered that several important clients using Earthlink for their ISP had emails sent from “macbook.local” blocked. Additionally, my brother

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Day of the Moron

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What a crapload of emotions I’ve been struggling with today. Just be glad I wasn’t operating a bulldozer in your neighborhood. It all started

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No More Desktop Machine!

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At least not now. Maybe later. For the time being, there’s just this MacBook sitting on my desk, and damn, I have a desk

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Book Review

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Here’s a clue for you: designer Jason Beaird’s The Principles of Beautiful Web Design showed up in my mailbox shortly after publication this past April, and the first thing I did was drop everything and read it from cover to cover. For the record, I build Web sites myself and have a number of art and design classes to my credit. Jason Beaird paid a lot more attention to his teachers, and it shows.

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Adobe InDesign CS3
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Who can we get to write a review of Adobe InDesign CS3? How about someone who has never used it before? Who has no expectations or preconceptions of the application? How about John Farr!

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
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The first of our Adobe CS3 product reviews, this time John Farr with Adobe Dreamweaver. We know you want it, especially if you have an Intel Mac. The new universal Adoble Dreamweaver CS3 that replaces the Macromedia-branded Dreamweaver 8 (PPC only) is faster, more capable, and actually fun to use. This review is aimed more at current users than new ones, and John will focus mainly on the changes to this new version.

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Dreamweaver 8
Review

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This is what happens when you procrastinate on a Mac article: the whole world changes before your eyes! When I first got my review copy of Dreamweaver 8, it was fresh off the presses from Macromedia. I was happy to get it, and then it wasn’t Macromedia’s any more. Hearing that Adobe had taken over, I felt positively parental: “Be nice to my baby!”

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Report from the Frontier

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There’s a saying, attributed to a former territorial governor of New Mexico, to the effect that whatever works elsewhere comes to grief here. As

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