Archive for February, 2007

Camino 1.1b - Now With Session Saving Built In

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

“The hard working folks behind Camino have released Camino 1.1 beta to an eager world. The most important change since alpha 2 is an integrated restore pages feature as you see above. Although it was previously possible to get a plugin to do this called CaminoSession (as we mentioned earlier), it’s nice to see it […]

The GMail Nerve Center

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Steve Rubel from Micro Persuasion has put together a handy multi-tutorial for using Gmail as the center for a variety of applications. These include:

How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)

How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)

How to automatically store your bookmarks in […]

Keyboard Cleaner

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

This is a cool donation ware program. It allows you to clean your keyboard and not have the key presses send your mac into a frenzy nor do you need to turn your mac off. Very nice!
“I created Keyboard CleanerIt comes in handy when you want to clean your keyboard, but you are afraid you […]

the inventor of the remote

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

How the world would be different if the remote had not been invented
“Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.
Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device, died yesterday of heart failure at a Boise nursing […]

ghostaction a gtd application

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Ghost Action is a clean and simple GTD application that prioritises seamless syncing with iCal (and therefore PDAs as well). Users can add and assign tasks into Projects and Contexts. When syncing the Contexts become different calendars in iCal and the Project names are appended to the name of the task in brackets [like this].
There […]

Vista and my Pocket PC

Monday, February 12th, 2007

PDAguy has been playing with Vista and his pocket pc..
Getting going with Vista and my Pocket PC - UAC and other annoyances:
It’s been a couple of weeks since Windows Vista was officially released. I’ve been playing with betas for a while now but I’ve always reserved final judgement pending the release of the production version.
My […]

ways to improve your skype experience

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Skype is one of my favorite programs.. This is an interesting list of the ways you can improve your skype experience
“HACKING SKYPE: 25 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR SKYPE EXPERIENCE
How versatile is your Skype? Ours can podcast, translate French, take conference calls from 15 people, and tutor calculus. Want to learn how to turn your Skype […]

adium version 1.0 released

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

The instant messaging client that I use on my mac has made version 1.
“With over 600 enhancements and bug fixes, Adium 1.0 is the culmination of over a year and a half of development. New features include a shiny new default appearance, an installation setup assistant, improved account management, privacy management, iTunes Now Playing status, […]

plugins for apple mail

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Hawkwings a couple of years ago posted their top ten on plugins for apple mac mail. The post has stood the test of time well.
“Top Tens must be a seasonal thing. Everyone’s doing it. Digg blogged a list of top ten apps for Mac. TUAW made a kind of anti-list.
There’s a list of ten fastest […]