I have a whole batch of criteria for what makes it in my dock and gets tossed. I know we all have something that makes us promote an application to its often-clicked life in the Dock. I thought I would share some of mine and also see what readers do with their Dock icon set. [...]
While puttering about this morning, I noticed in the notes for Delicious Library 2 - yes, I use it, and yes, I know I don’t really need it - that it prefers 10.5.3. ‘10.5.3?’ I asked myself. ‘But that’s not out yet….’
Ah, but Software Update says it is! Bringing a host of fixes, including the [...]
It may be the most anticipated app of the year, and it is finally here. Delicious Library 2 catalogs all your stuff. I own Delicious Library 1 and use it to help catalog all my books. Wil Shipley, the developer, says that this will catalog even more than just your books, movies, and CDs. [...]
Many people still have not made the “Leopard leap” and upgraded to Apple’s latest operating system. And of those who have, I am sure there are many that are either not using Time Machine, or want an off-site backup system. It is nice to be able to back up all your stuff to a backup [...]
I have a fairly large music and movie collection, and a fairly nice TV/stereo setup in the family room. To watch my movies and listen to my music on the good TV and stereo I could hook my Macbook Air up to the TV each time, but who wants to do that? Fortunately, [...]
Brainjiuce has updated its weblog editor Blogo to version 1.1. This update puts it closer on par to MarsEdit (my blogging tool of choice) by adding direct text formatting commands and better file format support (i.e. for posting graphics). The user interface has also been overhauled:
A neat Blogo feature it the ability to import the [...]
Using the directions feature of Google maps was an indispensable tool when I used to drive around town. Now that I moved to New York, I rely on the subways to get around and Gypsy Maps to tell me how.
I’m generally pretty lazy, so once I use Gypsy Maps to get directions somewhere, [...]
Netflix and Napster are both launching assaults on Apple, today. CNET is reporting the release of Netflix’s Apple TV rival, simply called Player by Roku, and Napster is getting into the digital music distribution with apparently an identical model to iTunes ($0.99 a song, $9.95 an album).
I am all for competition, but I don’t think [...]
This is a minor update to SiteSucker, but it is a program that I depend on, so I am posting it.
For the uninitiated, SiteSucker is a program that sucks everything (pages, images, etc.) out of a website and downloads it to your hard drive. I use it because I update my school web page at [...]
Eternal Storms has released a public beta of flickery, an OS X (Leopard only) client for flickr. It bring a great deal of iPhoto-like functionality to your flickr.com account in the way it displays photos and enables you to tag & group your collection. You can also browse, view and comment on pictures of your [...]
Somehow, I missed this despite subscribing to Adam’s blog, but Bee Docs’ released Timeline 3D this month.
The main new feature is the ability to display/present timelines in (no surprise) 3D mode. The best way to see what this looks like is by viewing the demo video Adam has put together.
While I’ve touted Bee Docs’ Timeline [...]
Apologies to all as I’m a bit late with what I was hoping to be a regular Sunday post. Again, here are my pics for the best program updates and new releases from the past week (and, remember, these are programs I either use regularly, tried due to interesting features or have been convinced to [...]
Part of Google’s reward for the perpetual servitude of their employees is the ability for them to use up to 20% of their time to make cool stuff. John Skidgel, John Grabowski and Brett Slatkin did just that by creating Google App Engine Launcher for OS X.
Google App Engine is a service created by Google [...]
Some server administrators set share drives to auto disconnect users after a set time of inactivity (ie fifteen minutes). As a user it’s super frustrating to connect to a server every time you need access. I’ve written an AppleScript that first checks to see if the share is mounted, if it is mounted [...]
Adobe Systems released Flash Player 10 beta today with a modest set of enhancements, including:
New 3D Effects that make it much easier to position, rotate and animate 2D objects while retaining full interactivity. Plus, new variable bitrate streaming for video between Adobe Flash Player 10 beta and future releases of Adobe Flash Media Server will [...]
Wil Shipley, head of Delicious Monster, posted this Twitter message early this morning:
I have deployed the new store (also the basis of Golden % Braeburn) and it’s taking DL1 orders right now. Will watch it, then ship DL2.
Could this mean he was up late last night, getting the code smoothed over, ready for a [...]
freeridecoding announced the release of version 1.0 of BurnAgain FS, a CD/DVD multisession burning utility for Mac OS X. Their software can re-mount CDs or DVDs as writeable volumes just like a hard disk. This means you can use the Finder to perform all operations on the volume and then burn changes (in ISO 9660 [...]
I’ve used TextMate before, mostly for heavy development with PHP or Ruby on Rails, but it began to fall out of focus for me when I started using Panic’s Coda instead. I loved Coda’s interface more than any other text editor/web development application. But I lamented the ability to easily sync up my web [...]
The two newest kids on the block, Pixelmator and Acorn, have both been updated to version 1.2, each carrying increased stability and new features. Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop blog has a post covering some new features - including Curves, Rulers, and more - clearly planned to keep pushing at the market currently dominated by Adobe [...]
Apple updated their PGP product security key as part of their two-year cycle. The new key is valid up through May 15, 2010 and will eventually be posted to their Protecting Security Information page. The announcement was made on their mailing list which you can subscribe to via mail or RSS.
How To Use The Key
Unlike the [...]
