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Blinkx Desktop Search for Mac

  • 12 Jan, 2005

Blinkx released a Pre-Beta v.05 yesterday of it’s desktop searching software. This is the first desktop search software, that I know of, for the Mac. No Google, MSN or Yahoo yet and Spotlight, part of Mac OS 10.4, won’t be out for months. I haven’t seen many good reviews on this yet and I don’t […]

Mac Mini, iPod shuffle & Final Cut HD

  • 11 Jan, 2005

The keynote is over and the two biggest announcements are the iPod shuffle for $99 and the Mac mini for $499! Both are amazingly tiny and priced just right! PC users have no good excuse not to check out a Mac now. Also announced was all new iApps for 2005. iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iWork with […]

Kensington PilotMouse Issues

  • 10 Jan, 2005

My PilotMouse issues linger on. I bought this ultra cool mouse at Best Buy, where I got a really good deal, about a month ago and my happiness level is still so so. It looks sweet, has many buttons, is wireless, optical and so comfy. However it’s on screen performance lacks. It seems to be […]

Mac Attack is Back

  • 6 Jan, 2005

It happens a couple times a year and next week will be a big Mac week. Why? MacWorld January 10-14 in San Francisco! The rumor sites are buzzing about all the new possibilities. There is iWork – like Microsoft Office only made by Apple, Asteroid – some audio interface to use with garage band, the […]

Firefox G5 Optimized

  • 4 Jan, 2005

Lately I’ve been running a version of Firefox optimized for the G5. [updated link] Now I’m not sure exactly how this works. Someone re-builds Firefox from the source given out by Mozilla. (it is open source so it’s free) Then then change some code to take advantage of the G5 processor. While in there, they […]

Wanted: Site Map Software

  • 4 Jan, 2005

I’m on the lookout for some good software to create site maps. Either computer based or internet based. You’d think it’d be easy enough for a program to spider a site and output the list of URLs with titles, however I’m having a hard time finding something that’s easy to use and works well. Any […]

Thunderbird 1.0 – Free Safe and Fast Email Client

  • 7 Dec, 2004

Today Mozilla announced the availability of Thunderbird 1.0. This standalone email application is a great alternative to Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Apple’s Mail.app or Eudora. Thunderbird is a free download and comes packed with many features including labels, junk mail filters, HTML mail composition, smart folders, message encryption, digital signing, message grouping (threading), great search […]