“Slow cooked to perfection,” doesn’t seem too far off. I bought Path Finder back in it’s version 2 days, but abandoned it after a short while - it just wasn’t doing it for me. I’ve only just begun my playing with Path Finder 4, but I’m pretty sold already. I’ll get a [...]
There is a review of Free/Open Source browsers available for Mac OS X in the latest issue of Free Software Magazine.
MacBook Pro. I hate the name. I mean, I really hate the name. Say it out loud and you’re almost guaranteed to mess it up. Despite its horrendous name, the MBP (as I will call it for the duration of this article), certainly has a lot going for it. Apple likes to awe the press [...]
I was walking into the press room this morning, planning to get some work done, when I passed what looked like the ending of an Apple employee briefing. The Apple staff seemed to be migrating in the same direction as me, and this is what I over-heard:
Guy: “Have you heard anything about 12 and 17?”
Girl: [...]
From Apple’s Java Developer site: “Mac OS X is the only mass-market operating system that comes complete with a fully configured and ready-to-use Java Development Kit. Professional Java developers are increasingly turning to the feature-rich Mac OS X as the operating system of choice for cross-platform Java development projects on the Macintosh and other platforms.”.
A couple of months back I made my plea for a mouse recommendation. There was a fantastic response from everyone and quite a few people recommended the Logitech MX1000. So I figured I’d give it a try. Needless to say, I was impressed.
Whatever mouse I was going to get needed to be cordless, trackball-less, have [...]
Unfortunately this installment of TAB’s “Download This App” won’t really apply to everybody…but I use it and so do lots of other people…so it’s relevant
The app that I’m referring to here is Oranged.net Software’s Studiometry. It’s their self-proclaimed “ultimate” organizational tool for professionals. In this case it is indeed the “ultimate”.
Studiometry is project [...]
Just a quick mention here…I’ve been reading the new The Cult of iPod book, which was written by the same guy who wrote The Cult of Mac, and must say it’s a good read. Just overall a great background and history of the iPod in addition to lots of great commentary. I highly suggest checking [...]
I admit, I’m a bit OCD when it comes to the cleanliness of my work area. Stray papers are kept in neat stacks, my wallet, hat, and keys live in a wire mesh basket, conveniently out of the way. But organization of my personal effects can only go so far, for there is one aspect [...]
I’m writing this review, ironically, on the very product that I’m reviewing. I’m testing out its spell check and whatnot. If you didn’t know already, this is TextMate, yet another text editor for Mac OS X.
I’ll skip the usual stuff, since we all know how a typical text editor works. We also know that some [...]
In his latest Business 2.0 article, Om Malik analyzes the “iPod Influence” on the handheld communications device market, comparing the ROKR to the RAZR. What if Apple were to truly enter the communications device market? What do you readers think?
I got me one of them shiny new black iPods a couple weeks back. It’s real purty. While the black is very nice looking, it’s also going to scratch if you breath on it with anything less than freshly brushed teeth. I’m not much for the cases - I don’t like hiding my iPod, but I DO want to protect it. So I set out to find some skins to properly protect my new toy.
DecalGirl and The Invisible Shield hooked me up with a couple to try out. I went through the installations of both, and tried each out for a few days to see how it protected my iPod from daily use. It’s been widely established that these new iPods scratch far too easily, so while I take good care of my things, having these protective skins was a great help.
So I finally managed to dig a hole out from under the piles of projects I have to deal with in order to check out the latest entry into the land of the Sims. As you probably already know, the Sims and its numerous expansions - I can’t even remember them all - are huge, [...]
eBay has become ubiquitous nowadays for buying and selling stuff online. A lot of people rely on it to sell their old belongings and many use eBay as their primary business tool. eBay has released their web services so that developers can build applications which can integrate with eBay’s functionalities. One such tool for helping [...]
Back in April I reviewed/reported on the Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Black keyboard and mouse combination.
On the whole, I was happy with it, but recently some of the little niggles that I had with the keyboard had started to get on nerves. Chief among these were the damn Logitech key (which takes you to the Logitech website and which, placed on the right hand side with the keypad is too easy to press; there is no way to disable it - I removed the key top, but it was an untidy solution), the slow response on the media keys, the annoying inability to conveniently swap the Apple/Option keys around (you had to choose a separate keyboard layout, but this would often be forgotten by the OS; not directly Logitech’s fault, but the MS solution is much more effective); the provision of only four customizable application keys.
A rockin’ app I ran across a few days back that has significantly increased my productivity and efficiency is Peter Maurer’s Textpander. It uses user-defined ’snippets’ to automatically insert text and images.
By typing ‘ddate’ it automatically inserts the current date. By typing ‘tab’ I get “The Apple Blog is eternally awesome.” Textpander’s auto-insert function [...]
The mouse is beautiful object, and aside from the rollerball in the middle, you would be hard pressed to idenfity this as anything other than a single button mouse in the style of all single button mice before it.
Boswell is a very data focused application that allows you store text, placing it in special ‘named’ notebooks, and to allow you to identify the text with different tags, making it easier to find and search for particular piece for information. For example, you might create a notebook for all of your email messages, but tag an individual message as relating to a specific project. You can also search for information and through a combination of the tags, notebook organization and full-text searching you can also create new notebooks and collections of information.
I was able to stop by one of my local Apple Stores today and check out the Mighty Mouse. In the interest of fairness, I tried multiple mice, just incase one of them was a bad apple. Despite the fact that it was released over a week ago, I am none-the-less delighted to bring you [...]
inMotion iM3 iPod speakers by Altec Lansing
Altec Lansing has been making speakers for decades. Years ago many of the bands I was in played through Altec Lansing PA speakers. The inMotion iM3 speakers are about 1/300th of the size of those old PA speakers, but put out a big sound given that [...]
