Category: Mac

The wife has been on me to fix a problem on her computer for a while now. She’s barraged by near constant prompts to enter a password for the dozens of processes that need access to the Local Items …

Wait a sec, you can change where the search box looks in Finder windows? The default for Search This Mac never seems to be what I want. Search the Current Folder is much better!

Yes, please! MacMall | Ergotron WorkFit-A, Sit-Stand Workstation - for Apple 24-414-227.

Whoa, how did I not know about the Vox music player on mac? Easy on the eyes, lightweight, plays FLAC, and scrobbles. Nice. In case you’re wondering why I don’t have nearly as many scrobbles as I used …

Santa Claus was very nice to me this year and brought me a shiny new Samsung 250Gb SSD for my aging Macbook Pro. Hardware-wise, swapping harddrives in my generation of MBP (Early 2011) is super …

After getting most of programs reinstalled, I wanted to copy my iPhoto library to the new drive my external back up disk. So, I jacked it in, and powered it up. And waited, and waited, and waited for …

If anybody wants to buy me a Mac Pro, you can order it starting tomorrow. I’ll take the dual 12 core version, please. Apple - Press Info - All New Mac Pro Available Starting Tomorrow.

I don’t coil up my power cables often, but this looks like a great idea! The Best Way to Wrap Your MacBook’s Power Cord.

Migrating my Mac backup (via Super Duper) from a plain drive to a File Vault protected drive. Hmm, 500Gb over USB2. Uh, yeah, this could take a while. Figured that now was a good a time as any since a …

Nerdcommenter Language specific block comments. Oh, yeah, that’s much better.

command-t Quick file searching. Similar to Fast Open in Komodo. Installation is slightly annoying (needs ruby and ruby-dev to configure, and c compiler to build.)

Giving Tree Decal - Vinyl Macbook / Laptop Decal Sticker Graphic Whoa, that’s pretty nice.

Silly, but fun! Mini classic Macintosh created with Raspberry Pi, runs System 6 video.

Meerkat | Code Sorcery Workshop. Quickly and easily manage SSH tunnels. Enable and disable them at will. A lot slicker than the command line. Via.

GNU Wget. Needed to quick download a copy of a website. Quick google led me to wget, which makes the operation a simple one liner. Unfortunately, its not part of OSX command line tool kit any more. No …

With time running out, I finally pulled the trigger on the latest Macheist. The only program I really wanted was Scrivener, so $29 for a $45 program plus a zillion others (18 in the heist, plus 20 …

Apple - Apple Events - Apple Special Event October 2012. Gotta renew my Fan Boy contract and drool over all the new toys.

Evolution of Apple Ads 1975-2002 - Retronaut. Still giggle when I see the list price for the first apple was $666.66.

hmm, somehow, when I wasn’t looking, they wedged chat into the Thunderbird email client. Will have to investigate, if I can tear myself away from OSX’s Messages app.

Made that realization as I was driving down to Carousel to wait an hour in line to buy a copy of the new Mac OSX, dubbed Leopard. I never thought I’d do something like that. I was just gonna blow off …

Been a little busy with week with work and chores this week so I’ve been kinda quiet on the blogfront (well, except for that iPhone post.) I finally pulled the trigger and bought an Apple; a nice …

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that Apple (now just Apple, as opposed to Apple Computer) finally let the cat out of the bag out their new cellphone. 30 months in the …

Via digg, I stumbled on something call macheist. The idea is that a bunch of mac software developers banded together form a bundle of all their offerings. 10 programs a more than $350 value for only …

Slickr, by cellar door software gives you a photo screen saver that scrolls through your (or everybody’s) flickr photos. Cool pan/zoom/fade effects kinda like the similar screen saver on OSX. Bonus, …

Some great spoofs of the recent Apple marketing campaign; you know, the Mac and PC guys. Get ready to make Linux and BSD. It’ll make you giggle for sure. (Via)

Way cool, someone has hacked the motion sensor in the new Macbooks so you can use it to swap desktops. Give your Mac a little tap on the side to go from OSX to Windows. Ha! See it in action. (Via)

The Unofficial Apple Weblog had a link to a slick video demo of fast operating system switching with Parallels on a new MacBook. They start off in OSX, flip over to Windows XP (where they download and …

Here’s a YouTube video (from MacWorld, via O’reilly weblogs) that shows removing the battery, RAM, and harddrive from a MacBook; all in about 30 seconds. Cool. Never been that easy in any IBM or Dell …

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (a daily read) reports that the Fifth Ave Apple Store is opening today. They included a link to an awesome flickr picture set showing just how over the top the store will …

Here’s an amazing video (via) an apple fan put together of what an apple mobile phone and iPod combination might look like. I’d probably go for something like that. Speaking of phones, it was recently …

Haven’t seen this one on TV yet, but here’s an Apple dealer who used $60,000 worth of iPods as dominos in a recent commercial. Via.

Saw this (via My Journey to Macintosh) a while ago and it cracked me up. Add an alarm to your MacBook Pro. Turn it on and off remotely with your Apple remote. I really hope it doesn’t catch on, I hear …

A while back, I was on Gizmodo and found a company that was offering to trade used CDs for an iPod. Too good to be true? Millennium Music has their exchange rates posted for CDs to a number of iPod …

Thankfully, my iPod MINI still works great. But, Apple is no longer selling them. Its replacement is the iPod Nano. pretty spicy, 2gb or 4gb flash (and 8gb rumored to be coming soon), color screen, …

Yesterday, I was updating iTunes on my PC and noticed that there was also an update to the iPod software. I think I missed the last update, so I figure its probably a good time to get caught up. So I …

Apple has been hard at work at some new projects: Is the iPod MINI not quite small enough for you? How about the iPod Shuffle? Its a flash based Mp3 player that’s even smaller than the MINI; basically …

I was in CompUsa the other day and spotted a new 30" Apple Cinema Display. Running at a staggering 2560x1600 resolution, it seems to provide acres of desktop real estate. Man, I would love to have …

Thanks to Jay for passing on info to the Scissor Sisters’ cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb performance on Saturday Night Live. Very trippy.

The latest Ipod innovations include ratcheting up the drive space (tops out at 60Gb) and adding a color screen for displaying photos. Check ’em out: http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/ The photos idea is …

I was recently strolling through CompUSA (I was intending to ogle one of those new G5 iMacs, but they didn’t have any in stock) in the laptop department and a screen saver caught my eye. It said …