Archive for the 'mac' Category
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
I have not used smart folders very much on my mac. For some reason it seems that it cool technology but I can’t think of any actual use for it. Then I thought about that current projects folder that sits on my desktop where I put all my documents that I am currently work on. […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Steve Ballmer from Microsoft reacts to the apple iphone. Good luck Steve!
“Steve Ballmer provided his blunt assessment of the Apple iPhone in remarks posted in a video at YouTube Thursday.
The first reaction by Mr. Ballmer was that the iPhone is very expensive and would not be well accepted in the business community because it “doesn’t […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
An update to the cool writeroom - I have used this program a little in conferences and it makes a huge difference in allowing you not to be distracted.
“For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
MacBook Pro update offers much more than just Core 2 Duo:
Apple’s new MacBook Pros offer some very tasty maximum specs that put Apple at the front of notebook technology once again.
Read more at APC Magazine
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Hawk Wings has pointed out an interesting comparison of Thunderbird and Mail.app
“Ashish Gulhati, CEO of email service provider Neomailbox , decided to dump Mail and give Thunderbird another try.
At first glance, he was impressed with the improvements since he last used it twelve months ago.
He even got inspired enough to list Thunderbird’s pros and […]
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