I got a Magic Mouse for Christmas, and I like it a lot better than I thought I would. When first hearing about it, I thought the Magic Mouse sounded amazing, like a combination of the best features of a mouse and a trackpad (yes, I’m addicted to two-finger scrolling) without the mechanical deficiencies of [...]
Google’s finally released a beta version of their browser for the Mac. I’m surprised at how impressive I’m finding it. Here are some initial observations:
“Reopen Closed Tab”
Google Chrome allows you to reopen the last tab you closed, which is an insanely useful feature I don’t seem to be able to live without anymore, and a [...]
I very much appreciate Firefox’s ability to save and restore my window and tab settings every time I quit and relaunch the app. It’s one of my favorite things about Firefox.
But I seem to remember that there was once a way to enable this feature while also having Firefox open new blank windows, that is, [...]
One of the exciting new features in the iPhone 3 OS is the ability to access calendars via plain old, standard, vanilla CalDAV. This allows you to finally keep an updated version of all your calenders without syncing your phone to your computer. Just subscribe to your calendars on your iPhone, just like you do [...]
This is how still images in Final Cut Pro 7 looked to me after installing and updating to the latest version (7.0.1):
This is my dog:
She is not normally purple and green and swirly colored.
After an hour or so mucking about, reinstalling the application, trashing prefs and otherwise performing the usual maneuvers, I decided to take [...]
Though Time Machine uses hard links to reference files from any point in time without using additional space, changing anything about a file will, obviously, trigger a new copy of said changed file to be backed up to your Time Machine disk. What’s perhaps less obvious is that even simply changing the path to the [...]
A quickie: It’s fairly common knowledge that, in the Finder, command-clicking the icon in the titlebar of the folder you’re in will reveal the folder hierarchy that said folder lives in. This is a handy way to find your current location and “drill up” in the folder hierarchy, if you will.
I’ve always longed for similar [...]
It’s just come to my attention that it’s now fairly trivial to split a drive into two differently formatted partitions, one of which could be used for the Mac while the other could be used for Windows. This is not necessarily new, but there are a number of things that make it of particular interest [...]
I was recently reading an article on the Tao of Mac that said, among other things:
“I’ve long preferred to use iPhone Twitter and Facebook clients over desktop ones…“
It’s true, there are a handful of iPhone applications that are actually better than the original apps they replace — Facebook, for sure, and my recent fave, the [...]
It’s been widely reported that the Image Capture app in Snow Leopard can now see and scan from many common scanners. This is a huge boon to those of us who are sick and tired of crappy scanner drivers and software. Image Capture is quite a capable scanner app, and fairly Mac-like.
But there’s another, more [...]