I’m a bag whore. I’ve got piles of them laying around my basement. I’d buy one, use it, figure out what I didn’t like about it, and I’d move on to the next one. This went on for many years - drove my wife crazy! (”Another bag? you’ve already got [...]
About a month or so ago, I attended an Apple briefing on Microsoft interoperability using the new Intel Macs. It was a lot of fairly familiar ground, with Boot Camp and Parallels, but they also introduced a new product, still in alpha testing, from CodeWeavers called CrossOver that got me really excited because it was [...]
I have a PSP and I love it, but when using it with my Powerbook to transfer Videos, podcasts, music, pictures, what have you; there just aren’t as many options out there for it as there are for Windows. Now you can always just manually put all the files you want onto the PSP’s memory [...]
I know how many of you love to pimp your machine, your GUI, your programs, your OS; skins, mods, hacks, you name it. But as many of you probably know, getting the best programs, mods, and skins for your machine could be troublesome, and it’s a system of trial and error when finding [...]
I’ve been reviewing iView’s Media Pro 3 for a couple months now. It’s fantastic, and it has done wonders for my digital work flow. But I’ve started to write the review at least a dozen times. There are a lot of things I want to cover, but stringing them all together has [...]
Kula Software, developers of the fantastic blog editor ecto, have just released their answer to news readers. Endo, who’s name plays off that of its sibling, has a few refreshingly new and well executed features that make it stand out from the get-go. To begin with, the first time you launch endo, you are taken [...]
So I’ve been using Griffin’s RadioShark for a few weeks now and must say, I love it.
I’m generally not a big radio fan but this has resparked my interest…specifically with Jazz music. I’ve got some 3,200+ songs in my iTunes collection but don’t really know enough about Jazz to really find what I’d like and [...]
FlyingMeat has released an app called FlyGesture ($24.95) that brings together a combination of Mouse Gestures and Quicksilver (or any launcher) type capabilities. Essentially, if you’re more of a mouse-jockey than the keyboard sort, this may be the application for you. I gave it a quick run-through - mainly out of curiosity - [...]
I remember years ago playing the original RollerCoaster Tycoon, when it came out, on my Windows PC. It was a long time ago. I remember how all of the characters were just little colored blobs (even when zoomed in). The game was incredibly simple, but was still pretty advanced at the time. There were lots [...]
My iMac Core Duo has arrived, as the replacement for the original transition kit unit. It came as a complete surprise - I should have had an order confirmation and notification of shipping, but this unit just appeared out of the blue at 8:30am.
I’m not complaining!
First impressions:
Fast - even with the standard 512MB [...]
I feel like I’m drowning in photo applications lately - anyone else feeling the pressure on their chest also?
There’s been Aperture (though I haven’t sprung for that one just yet) in recent weeks/months, Adobe’s new Lightroom beta, iPhoto ‘06, and now I’ve got a copy of iView Media Pro 3 that I’m starting a [...]
I love this thing. Seriously. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t use it. It’s Altec Lansing’s iM7.
Whether you’re heading out to the beach or helping your wife out in the kitchen washing dishes, the iM7 has what you need to bump the jamz.
It’ll handle just about any make of [...]
“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 [...]
