Everyone knows that the best way to ensure that one is getting the very best quality audio is to invest in good hardware, and only listen to full CD quality (or better) music. However, not everyone can afford a professional audiophile setup. Macosxhints.com has what one man is calling the universal “perfect” settings for the [...]
I thought I would share with all of you some great software resources that I have come across recently. No need to expand on that thought any more, so lets get started!
Mail
Here is a handy collection of plugins for Mail.app that allow users to add a wealth of features including many productivity techniques such as [...]
The Opera browser is celebrating its 10 year anniversary today, and in celebration, is giving out free licenses for its advanced browser for free! Opera was the browser that got me away from IE when I was still on PC. The tabbed interface was so useful that I eventually migrated to Firebird, and then Firefox. [...]
Upgrading to Tiger introduced a few “interesting” iSync-related “features” …
Developer David Watanabe has released a beta version of the 1.2 update to his popular RSS reader NewsFire. The update features a souped-up interface for feed groups, as well as advanced ad blocking. A full list of changes can be found here. Because this is a beta release, the download is only recommended for power-users [...]
SCIT
For some reason or another, Apple has made the poor decision (in my opinion) to make the default format for screenshots PNG. In the past, if one wanted to change the default format, they would have to go into the terminal and change the format by editing a system file. Lucky for those of us [...]
For this years Resource Pool (I say “year” because who knows when I’ll get around to doing another one of these) we bring you “Automator Actions.” There won’t be a whole lot of commentary to this post…just a pile of juice links to cool sites with Automator Actions. If you know of a site not [...]
Google has decided to enter the IM and VoIP market with a new service called Google Talk. Based on the open standard Jabber protocol for instant messaging, with audio chat thrown in for good measure, Google Talk is a full-fledged IM client. Unfortunately, the current client is only available for (guess what?) Windows. There is [...]
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.
It’s been forever since I posted here, so I thought I would bring you nice folks a little something special. Today I bring you an interview with the creator of Jisho. Read on to the full article to learn about Jisho, and the diet coke swilling student behind this great app.
The director of Microsoft’s security response center, Debbie Fry Wilson, said the computer giant was in an “emergency response” mode. “Right now, we’re mobilizing our two war rooms,” she told CNN.
DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library. Our publishing software lets you broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost. The project is non-profit, free and open source, and built on open standards. A Windows version of DTV and a full website are well underway and will arrive in the next several weeks.
Ever since I started using Mac portables, I have been using Raging Menace Software’s SideTrack. Just in case you are unfamiliar with this program, SideTrack is a replacement driver for the track-pad on either iBooks or PowerBooks which allows much greater control over what you can do with your track-pad. Long before Apple introduced the [...]
iTunes 4.9 has changed my life. (Okay, not my ENTIRE life, but a large part of it). I’m totally digging these podcast things, and iTunes makes it easy and simple to download new episodes and sync them with my iPod. However, there are a few issues that constantly bug me:
- There is no way to [...]
On the heels of its first beta release which we covered a few weeks back, a new Beta version of the Mac OS X Gizmo Project is out. Among one of its more notable new features, is support for Encryption of Gizmo-to-Gizmo calls, which further cements it as a far more compelling alternative to Skype for online calling. Read-on for the skinny.
Go check out LifeHacker for a cool idea on discovering new audio/video content.
The gist of it goes like this:
In iTunes, subscribe to a custom feed.
Make that custom feed a RSS URI from Del.icio.us that points only to the media you want to grab. (mp3, mpg, etc, etc) more here
Add +[tag] to narrow the [...]
So by now you’ve all heard, right? Yahoo! bought Konfabulator. They’ll be offering it for free (refunds to those who paid for Version 2.0) to anyone who wants it. And yes, OS X development has been confirmed to continue. So what’s the angle here?
Yahoo is obviously in a fight for Search [...]
Original Post/Problem here.
Well good news! I finally figured out the trick. The solution is not as I would have expected from Apple - based on the way everything else syncs with the iPod - but that’s ok. “Think Different”, right?
So after you’ve downloaded photos to your iPod (via the camera connector), you [...]
Vienna is a newly announced news-reader for OS X. From the product page, it looks to have many of the same features as NetNewsWire or Newsfire, but Vienna is different in that it is totally free. Vienna is available for download as either a pre-compiled version, or the raw source code. This seems to be [...]
Do you have a color iPod? How about the optional Camera Connector? Well then maybe you can help me out. Did Apple really drop the ball this badly? Sorry, I’ll let everyone in on the problem here.
You see, I just recently got myself a shiny new 20gb color iPod. It’s [...]
