Erica at TUAW has a really excellent tip for ‘righting’ video clips that have been shot in the wrong orientation. This is something I was glad to find a year or so back after my wife had accidentally shot a few video clips with out digital camera, and our boys looked like they were [...]
As I’ve been known to do, I take requests, and this screencast is an example of that practice. The question has been asked several times in the past about the look of my Quicksilver interface. There’s no special Quicksilver Foo that I’ve applied, as always, it’s just knowing where to look. So [...]
I’ve done several screencasts here on The Apple Blog - and have many more planned. Lately I’ve been taking in many other screencasts around the web and have noticed a huge variation in how people execute them. Some have very professional editing and eye candy, while others are quick, choppy, but to the [...]
I’ve done a post like this before, but it’s fairly old at this point in time so here we go again.
One of the best ways to find great new software for your system is by checking out what other people are running on their Macs. Every forum I follow, and every flickr group that [...]
I’ve mentioned Mark/Space before as providing a great product in Missing Sync, which allows me to easily connect my Windows Mobile-based BlackJack with my MacBook. They also offer Palm and now BlackBerry software as well. I’ve been quite pleased with Missing Sync, though really only use it in a fairly limited capacity.
For those [...]
There’s been much discussion lately about how to store all those crazy text strings that we get in order to license our software purchases. A cottage industry has popped-up just to service this growing need as we continue to expand our Applications folder day after day.
But even with all the checks put into [...]
For those of you who followed the My Dream App competition last year, there’s news of progress! Austin Sarner (AppZapper developer) posts to the MDA Forums about the work that’s been accomplished to date on CookBook - one of the winning apps. The screenshots looks very nice - unless you’re one of those [...]
I know, it must be shocking to see that I’m doing a screencast on something other than Quicksilver. For me to not be covering Quicksilver is generally a big deal - well that’s just the case today. I’m proud to bring you a screencast preview of Skitch, which is a fantastic new screen [...]
Excellent! And why not a shiny new Apple LCD to go with that 8 core beast?
Apple dropped their prices across the board on their beautiful (allbeit overpriced) LCD line. The breakdown:
30″ Cinema HD Display dropped to $1799 ($200 price cut).
23″ Cinema HD Display dropped to $899 ($100 price cut).
20″ Cinema HD [...]
Good Morning Apple! Thanks for the 8 Core Mac Pros!
Now I just need to figure out where the money to fund one of these puppies is coming from…
When MacHeist dropped their huge software bundle late last year, it seemed to be the end of the marketing game. But there was one Briefing left untouched and not much else came from the website. But on April 1st my feed reader picked up on some activity which begins a mini heist. [...]
This isn’t a new bit of software (according to the release date, it’s coming up on it’s 1 year birthday), but it’s something I hadn’t been aware of until I caught a blip about it on LifeHacker. The iPod Shuffle Database Builder is handy in case you don’t dig on iTunes all that much.
You [...]
But I didn’t know it was this simple! All I had to do was ask a friend for their PowerBook and I could’ve gotten one for free. Or not. Does anyone know somebody like this? I’m getting ahead of myself.
In case you haven’t clicked the link and read the [...]
Ars reports that Intel released details on Penryn, which will be the 45nanometer successor to our Macs’ beloved Core 2 Duo processors. There’s all kinds of geeky specs and details if you’re into the mechanics of computer processors.
But if you’re just in it for the looks, er, something like that, here are [...]
In an effort to quell the weekly requests for how my CMD + ESC trigger works to load a selected item (or multiple selected items) into Quicksilver, I’ve done an impromptu screencast on the setup. Call it Bonus Wednesday.
Anyway, I’m at work, so there’s no audio, but you should be able to follow the [...]
UPDATE: Sorry, screencast URL is fixed now.
I’ve been stockpiling ideas of the gems I’d still like to show you in Quicksilver, and among them is the Image Manipulation plugin. However, a quick search shows that I [sort of] covered it about a year ago. I say sort of, because it was just the [...]
As silly as it sounds, I still keep track of macZOT! deals. The site has definitely seemed to fizzle in excitement since its inception, but there are still the occasionally attractive deals being offered.
In today’s case, you can get 30% off St Clair Soft’s Default Folder X. This is an application (ok, maybe [...]
In case you’re not a fan of the delayed eject functionality that 10.4.9 brings to your system, here’s a quick tip on getting around it.
If you want to eject your disc, and not be bothered to wait, hit the Eject key, and then quickly follow it by pressing the CMD + Option keys. You’ll [...]
OS X has all sorts of little tweaks that can be made to it via the Terminal. These are usually items that aren’t available via the operating system GUI. In many cases, developers have made little utilities that allow you to make these changes outside the terminal. But instead of having to [...]
If you’ve ever used the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store, you’ve used their Concierge Service. You can sign up from Apple.com/retail from anywhere (not just within the store itself) for a convenient time that day and then head on in at your leisure. Works well enough and is definitely nice to [...]
