I love my tabbed Safari, Firefox, and Camino. Ever since Tiger came out I’ve been enjoying multiple sites in one window and it’s been spreading to other apps like my favorite text editor. SkEdit recently got the tab treatment amongst other things. Even iChat is tabbed now, although through a plugin. It’s a tabbed world [...]
12 years ago I acquired this old Macintosh from Otis, the Art School I was attending to at the time. I used to work part time at the computer lab there and this little machine was sitting in a closet collecting dust until I asked to take it home. Since then I have never been [...]
The default interface for Mail signatures allows you to do rich text signatures using the fonts and colors palette. You can even drag an image into the compose signature window and it will be included in every email as an attachment. This is fine for most people, but attachments should be just that, an attachment [...]
What is Portable Apps? They are applications that save their data in the drive they reside in, not in the host computer they are running in. This mean I can run Firefox from my iPod and all of it’s preferences, bookmarks, history and extensions will stay on my iPod and not in my computer. This [...]
My Powerbook has been lagging for a while now. Mostly due to the fact that my 100 GB drive is down to 1 GB of available space. I started the process of archiving to my external drive some projects I was done with and I was able to bring it up to 15.3 GB. I [...]
I know this is going to be all over the mac news sites but it is just too big not to mention it. Apple has released a beta of a new app called Boot Camp that allows a user to run Windows natively on the mac. This is with Apple’s blessing of course. Boot Camp [...]
Tech Crunch has some exclusive screenshots of the up and coming web 2.0 Google calendar named CL2. The features look impressive: Ajax goodies, subscription feeds for desktop integration, event creation, search, sharing, notifications that include SMS and GMail integration. Link: www.techcrunch.com
This is my latest Apple Swag, a nice black t-shirt with grey words that say ‘I visited the Mothership’, courtesy of my friend George Ariola. Previously he was product manager of Adobe GoLive but now is a technologist at Apple. He was in town last week and we met at the jewish deli and L.A. [...]
Most people I know don’t know that iPhoto can be tagged with keywords. Or if they do they don’t know how to use them. They’re not to blame, iPhoto has always had an awkward implementation of keywords. iPhoto 06 improves on keywords but they are still confusing to most users I know. So here’s a [...]
I am as addicted to menubar items on my Mac as I am to my morning Latte. And the best place for finding such wonderful compact applications is the super OS X menubar items page. They are categorized, have a description, cost and fancy icon. There was a time where it seemed the project was [...]
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