Posted in Macintosh, Social Software on Feb 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
ClickToFlash
Steve Jobs hates Adobe Flash and doesn’t want it on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad but that’s besides the point. I’ve been noticing that my computer has gotten increasingly unstable as my workday goes on. Later in the day (like now) typically the computer was running hot, fan on, Safari running slow and hanging [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Tools on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Nuance buys up MacSpeech
This is interesting news, speech to text is useful for many people including people with various kinds of disabilities.
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
Former Microsoft employee Dick Brass on how the company has failed to innovate over the years.
Some of us have seen this pattern brewing at Microsoft for years. Couple this with the idea that the release of Apple’s iPad seems to be less about hardware, more about a statement that some (maybe many) users [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, People, iPad, iPhone on Jan 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
Steve Lohr has written an excellent piece discussing the back story on how Jobs thinks and works.
…Apple products are known for being stylish, powerful and pleasing to use. They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that came into [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad, iPhone on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller demonstrates the new iWork application on iPad including the use of multi-touch gestures for getting things done without a mouse.
This is a clip from the iPad unveiling which can be watched in its entirety here.
Posted in Events, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad, iPhone on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Organization on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
BumpTop Mac
While I don’t think I’ll ever try this, I love watching the video. Watching how smart people invent great things to facilitate personal organization is like a hobby of mine. I’m like a lurker for stuff like this even though I don’t try much of it out.
Watch the video, it’s fun.
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Mouse pointer track after 3 hours of working in Photoshop. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks).
Flickr user Anatoly Zenkov has written a java applet for the Mac that tracks his mouse movement over time. Fascinating.
[via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Travel, iPhone on Jan 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Just a quick note that I’m on my way to California on a United PS flight and am using their Gogo inflight wifi network for the first time. In a word: great!
Simple to use, not too expensive ($12.95 for a coast to coast trip, $7.95 for a smartphone), the network has plenty of bandwidth for [...]
Posted in Food, Macintosh on Jan 3rd, 2010 12 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Some people see Jesus in their Latte foam. I might see this pancake (in the shape of an apple) as a sign that Apple will ship a tablet, break $300 and dump AT&T as their iPhone carrier this year.
Too bad I don’t believe in signs.
The pancakes were great this morning.
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Resources, Photo Sites, Slide Show on Dec 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
Vowl
Vowl is a free Macintosh application from stevenf (Panic) that given a tag or list of tags will display a random flickr slideshow in a window on your computer. Simple, clean, well designed and fun.
If you click on an image you go directly to that image on flickr.
If this becomes popular it will hopefully push [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Video, iPhone on Dec 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Sports Illustrated on a mocked up Apple tablet… maybe.
If it’s even close to something like this it will make heads explode.
[via Jon Moss]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Nov 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Prey is a small application that you install on a Mac or a PC laptop and if that computer is ever stolen Prey will help you track it.
It’s open source and free.
I haven’t installed it yet but it does sound quite useful. Of course, it also seems to allow the folks running the project to [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
BusyCal 1.0
BusyCal is an alternative to iCal. If you’re a serious iCal user (I am) watch the demo videos to get hooked. This looks like a great product. My only worry is that Apple will copy many of its features on the next update to iCal which they’ve done before with many products.
[via Daring [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw bug hits PowerPC users
If any of you out there are still using G4 and G5 Macs, this post’s for you. Those of you using newer Intel hardware can skip this.
However, when combined with the general dissatisfaction with Adobe’s user interface design of Macintosh products it will no doubt add to the [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Objects, Photography, Tech Stuff, iPhone on Sep 19th, 2009 No Comments »
How iFixit Uses Teardowns As Marketing 3.0
This is internet marketing par excellence. Not only are the teardowns creating genuine news for the tech press, they are efficiently executed and beautifully documented. The photos are superb, and the walkthroughs are clear and informative. Best of all, Wiens is a genius at sending the media timely and [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Finer Things in Mac
Wow, I learned a ton just on the first page. This is a great resource.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Sep 7th, 2009 6 Comments »
Why your Web content will look darker on Snow Leopard
Apple has switched to a default gamma of 2.2, which is what Windows has used for years. Colors that aren’t color-managed are going to look darker on the whole. Your whole display will now be closer to what Windows users see.
Gad, as if we didn’t have [...]
Posted in Architecture, Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 23rd, 2009 8 Comments »
I’m experimenting with an application called PTLens which corrects pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective.
In this case, the 24mm end of the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L causes distortion in the perspective on buildings left and right of center.
Before:
After:
The image would need to be cropped to remove the black areas left and right of bottom [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Aug 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Matte display option makes a quiet return to 15″ MacBook Pro
The glossy versus matte debate rages on, but for 15-inch MacBook Pro buyers, the option to choose between the two is back. Apple has apparently conceded to the complaints of some users, though the 13-inch notebook is still glossy-only.
Thank the lord.
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