Want to create a dashboard widget for your Mac? Me too. This week I started looking around for ways to do it. After days of research, I found 2 ways you can make a widget… They are: 1. Use Safari to Make a Dashboard Widget (easy) 2. Code A Simple Image Widget Easily (medium) 3. [...]
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In my last post I talked about how you can set up Spaces on your Mac. Let’s continue the discussion and find out how I should be using Spaces and why I try to open Spaces on my PC at work (PCs don’t have Spaces!) and more. Any Spaces Tips? I know Spaces are meant [...]
Spaces have been extremely useful for me and my tiny 17-inch iMac. My screen is small so I get lost with open applications all the time. That’s why I’ve started using Spaces and dropping at least one application into each Space. So here’s a little tutorial and description of my Spaces setup: 1. In the [...]
First… Today is Firefox 3 Download Day! You can help set a Guinness World Record by downloading Firefox today in any one of the 45 languages available. You’ve got until midnight tonight! Update: Over 8 Million downloads of Firefox in 24 hours! Second… I’ll be in San Francisco Wednesday through Sunday at the Usability Week [...]
I’ve been using Firefox exclusively on my Mac since version 2 was released back in 2006. Finally Firefox is getting an upgrade and version 3 is set to be released very soon. However, a beta version of Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available now. The new version has lots of great features and I’m [...]
According to Apple.com, Erykah Badu started mixing her new album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) in GarageBand and created a demo video with PhotoBooth & iMovie. All 3 programs GarageBand, PhotoBooth, & iMovie (and more) are part of iLife ’08 – on sale for just $79. Even though Erykah had never used GarageBand, [...]
AppCleaner – Quickly and easily removes unwanted and unused software, widgets and other files from your Mac. “It isn’t, in fact, sufficient to just delete an application. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner can find all these small files and safely delete them.” That’s [...]
iTunes & Digital Copy will lead to the death of the open source, DVD ripper HandBrake. Macworld 08 featured a tiny bit of information on the new “Digital Copy” format for DVD movies. Now, when you purchase a DVD movie from your favorite electronics retailer, an iTunes compatible file will be ready and waiting for [...]
Macaroni is a nifty system maintenance software for Mac that will keep your computer running – automatically. Which is why I use it. Another reason I use Macaroni to manage my system maintenance is because it’s only $9.95. Useful, automated system maintenance doesn’t get easier – or cheaper. It’s compatible with Mac OSX 10.2 and [...]
You want to run Microsoft Office on your Apple computer right? The good news is “you can!” But why would you? Sure, millions and jillions of people have and use Microsoft Office – even on the Mac. More good news: “you don’t have to!” There’s a better – cheaper – way to get all your [...]