Category: Software

The BMW of Chat Clients

4 May, 2005

Just as I was about to check out the new iChat in Mac OS 10.4, Adium 0.80 came out. Adium is a multi-service, free, incredibly customizable, instant messaging application for Mac. I didn’t think that this update would be as amazing as it is, however they continue to raise the standards of design and usability […]

Set Your Dashboard Widgets Free

3 May, 2005

If you have Mac OS 10.4 you have Dashboard and probably have one wish: Let the widgets be free! Well a new little application called Amnesty is out in beta form. It allows you to run a copy of your widgets separate from Dashboard on your desktop. I just installed it and it seems to […]

Tiger’s First Days

1 May, 2005

Now that I’ve had a day or two to play with Tiger I think it’s a great upgrade. I ended up having to do a clean install, however that was probably a blessing in disguise. Especially since I didn’t loose anything major. Overall the new OS is really nice. I’ve already seen tricks to keeping […]

Tiger – Disaster Averted

30 Apr, 2005

I took some time last night and checked out the important stuff and it doesn’t appear that I lost anything important. Phew. Just re-downloading my Macromedia apps and a bunch of other freeware and shareware applications. Saved mail messages, preferences and keychain passwords are all ok. So, to get to the important stuff, Tiger is […]

Tiger… Not Yet Impressed

29 Apr, 2005

I don’t know if I got a bad disk or what, but my Tiger install did not go well. First off the disk wouldn’t verify. I called the Apple store and they said to just skip verification. I then choose archive and install and it archived everything but failed on install. Now I was left […]

Tiger Day! Yea!

29 Apr, 2005

Well today is the day! Mac OSX 10.4 comes out today!! I’ll be off to Southdale or the Mall of America tonight to get my own copy. Plus I hear rumors of t-shirts!! To get ready for Tiger I decided to backup and clean up my Powerbook last night. I used iBackup and only backed […]

Favelet Suite – The Power of Bookmarkletts

28 Apr, 2005

If you don’t know what a bookmarklette is, it’s a piece of javascript that you bookmark and invoke on a page. They can do things like highlight text, show nofollow links, create Technorati tags, count words and more. Well I just found the coolest one yet! It’s called Favelete Suite. Once you invoke it, it […]

Mac OS 10.4 – Tiger

26 Apr, 2005

Mac OS X10.4 – Tiger Mac OS X.4 (Tiger) is just days away and I’m getting all excited. I’m planing on going to the Apple store on Friday to get me a copy. My wife may come too to keep me company and tell me how crazy I am. 😉 With 200+ new features, I […]

Safari Rich Text Editing

20 Apr, 2005

Safari now supports some sort of rich text editing. I’m not sure how it works exactly, however, over at the All Forces blog, they have an awesome demo. I don’t even need to be editing the page, just bold or italic the on page text! How cool is that? It’ll be exciting to see where […]

Adobe to Acquire Macromedia!

18 Apr, 2005

I’m completely shocked. Adobe will be buying Macromedia! Two of the biggest web applications companies out there. I have long since chosen Macromedia products over Adobe, and now I fear for the futures of Dreamweaver and Fireworks. I’m unsure of what the future will bring, but I’m worried that, without competition, Adobe could take the […]