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October 15 2007
I want to give a shout-out to Apple Insider for a stellar series of “Road to Mac OS X Leopard” articles detailing changes coming in the any-day-now update. They offer a layer of depth and context well beyond what you can find on the official Leopard site. Not content with… read moreSeptember 08 2007
If you’d like to get your weather forecasts in iCal, head on over to Weather Underground, find your city, and check out the top right-hand of the page for the ICAL icon. There’s also an RSS feed. I don’t have any other ical-format calendaring apps handy, but this might well… read moreSeptember 04 2007
I’m writing this from the new MarsEdit 2.0, just released by Red Sweater Software. It’s like a familiar friend shows up for dinner and has transformed into a gourmet cook. After Daniel Jalkut took over development of the app from Brent Simmons, he kept up a steady supply of… read moreAugust 26 2007
The NeoOffice developers have released version 2.2.1 of their office suite, bringing some new features that should be quite welcome for their users: Support for the native Mac OS X spellchecker Support for the native Mac OS X address book Support for high resolution printing Opening, editing, and saving of most Microsoft Office… read moreAugust 23 2007
Via style.com’s gadget blog comes this spiffy new device by Timex: iControl, which is a wristwatch and iPod remote. The iControl website has full details, including this compatibility list: iPod 5th gen (video), 30GB iPod 5th gen (video), 60GB, 80GB iPod nano 2nd gen (aluminum), 2GB, 4GB, 8GB iPod nano 1st gen,… read moreJune 15 2007
Recently I had an Apache access log file on a remote server that I wanted to archive. However, it was 3GB, and /usr/bin/zip refused to even admit the behemoth’s existence. First idea that came to mind was splitting the file into smaller chunks that zip could deal with. For some reason,… read moreNetNewsWire and MarsEdit updated
June 05 2007
Two of what might be termed “venerable” (in computer years) Mac OS X applications have been updated today, apparently coincidentally. ;) Brent Simmons and NewsGator released a major 3.0 update to the popular NetNewsWire with crazy amounts of spiffy new features. And a former Simmons app, MarsEdit (now handled admirably by Daniel… read moreMay 11 2007
This is one of those “Discovered By Accident” tips that I happened upon today in OmniOutliner 3.0 whilst futzing with the Inspectors. For those unfamiliar with the program, there are five Inspectors — Appearance, Row, Column Type, Document, and Style Attributes — that can be interchangeably docked together or viewed as… read moreMarch 21 2007
Red Sweater Software continues its resuscitation of dormant applications (most recently, MarsEdit) with today’s announcement that they are taking over development of Advenio’s MacXword. Called Black Ink, this crossword downloading and solving program should be an excellent addition to Red Sweater’s stable of apps. New licenses are $24.95, but they have provided… read moreMarch 12 2007
“Colors and Prompts in BASH” is a quick how-to on putting some color and utility into the otherwise austere command line prompt for the popular shell. Bourne Again Shell offers a lot of power, flexiblity and fun. Many new Unix users do not realize the flexibility of the shell environment;… read moreLex: Project based informating management
March 12 2007
Readers last week will remember my mentioning Journler as a favorite app for journaling and miscellaneous text accretion. Thus it will not be surprising that a new application just announced from the same developer has got me excited: “Lex: Project based informating management” Lex is Journler but document centered and document… read moreiTunes movie-watching controller tip
March 12 2007
Cool tip discovered just now whilst watching a video podcast in iTunes. The overlay controller that shows up when you mouse over a movie window, like this, can be moved by clicking in one of the non-control areas and dragging. Handy for when there’s info being obscured, but you’d like to… read moreMarch 03 2007
I tend to go through phases when it comes to the programs I do my writing in. Everything from bloated word processors to the geekiest of text editors will at one point or another have me in its throes. What I’ve found recently is that as my writing life is… read moreFebruary 26 2007
Last week, developers Brent Simmons (Ranchero/NewsGator) and Daniel Jalkut (Red Sweater) announced that the blog-posting application MarsEdit would be taken over by Red Sweater. Exciting news for longtime MarsEdit users, a group that includes Brent himself: Daniel knows that “operators are standing by” — I’ll give him the help he… read moreFirefox plugin: It's All Text!
February 23 2007
Thanks to a post on Lifehacker, I found out about the It’s All Text Firefox plugin that lets you edit any text area in your favorite editor. From the comments on the plugin page, some Mac users have had issues with getting it to find their editing applications, and it is… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
