Archives for Category: Software

Everyday Software

November 22, 2011

One of the things in my “to write about” list was a list of all the Mac software I find useful. I’ve had a draft sitting around and the interesting thing when I opened it back up after a year was how much has changed. “Must have” programs are no

Holding Off on Lion

October 3, 2011

I downloaded Mac OS X Lion the day it was released, but held off on installing it since I was traveling and far from my backup disk (yes, not smart, but also not the point). I’ve never been one to install a new OS on day one anyway. I usually

Procrastination

May 24, 2011

I have a terrible habit of spending what little free I have surfing the web rather than writing for it. I just spent the last couple of hours messing with some new Safari extensions (Instapaper Beyond, Firebug for Safari), which led to various excursions into fonts, bookmarking tools (why do

Scrivener

January 18, 2011

There have been numerous posts recently about how people write, either for the web, or otherwise. For web-based writing tasks, the usual suspects like Simplenote, Notational Velocity or [insert favorite text editor] keep popping up. One application that I read about in a recent blog post is called Scrivener and

Time for a Change?

September 26, 2010

Speaking of Movable Type…a few days ago, Six Apart — the company behind Movable Type—announced that they were being bought out by some marketing company called Video Egg. I say Six Apart is “behind Movable Type”, but long before this, I wasn’t so sure. For the past few years, Six

Syncing Lightroom 3 with Aperture

July 10, 2010

I’ve written before about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom versus Apple’s Aperture and I currently use Lightroom as my primary photo management and editing tool. However, Aperture still has it’s uses: It is much easier to sync picks to my iPhone via Aperture (by selecting the desired albums under the photo tab

Time to Upgrade?

May 11, 2010

My current machine is an Apple PowerMac Dual 2.0 G5 which I’ve had since February 2006. I’ve added an additional hard drive and bumped up the RAM (twice). It’s a perfectly fine machine. Does what I need it to. However, it’s not an Intel machine and can’t run Snow Leopard

Demise of the Apple Download Page

April 22, 2010

I hope this theory by arstechnica turns out not to be true: For the last several years, Apple has maintained a comprehensive (if not exhaustive) list of available Mac OS X software on its website. This has been a great resource for those who aren’t familiar with sites like MacUpdate

Reading the Web

April 19, 2010

I’m not sure when reading the multitudes of blog posts and news articles—and keeping track of the interesting things—became a challenge, but I suspect getting an iPhone was actually a contributor. First, some background: The first piece of software that I bought that didn’t come in a box from an