Below are posts from April 2007
Apr 30, 2007 |
Did you know that you can drag text from any Mac application and save it as a clipping that can be used again later by simply dropping it into a different program?
Even better, it will retain formatting (style, color and fonts)!
Simply highlight the typed text, drag it to the Desktop, then drag it back into the other application!
Very handy if you frequently use the same text over and over again (such as for an an address or signature).
See it in action here.
Apr 25, 2007 | | Tags:
apple
Evidently this image is the second most popular result for ‘leopard’ on the internet…which is fine with me.
I can’t recall where I originally found this, but it is spectacular. Enjoy it!
PS: Please take a moment to check out the rest of the site while you’re here, won’t you?
Click for larger, or Save Link As…
Apr 23, 2007 |
Panic, the makers of Transmit and CandyBar, today have released their new web editing app, Coda. A spectacular interface coupled with some powerful tools is going to make Coda the program to beat for this marketspace.
Some cool features of Coda include:
Integrated FTP, SSH, SFTP – even imports your Transmit favorites
Tabbed interface for sites, files, terminal, books (read on) and more
The ‘books’ mentioned include built-in copies of php, xml and html manuals that are easily read and searchable
An integrated CSS editor
A neat little site browser/favorites gui
A ‘Clips’ area to store commonly used code chunks
The ability to share …
Macitt.com is essentially Digg for the Mac community. Users submit links of interest, and other users vote them up based on their level of interest. It’s a great way to see what’s popular or interesting in the Mac-o-sphere.
Anyway, they are having a contest in which you can win an Apple TV. All you have to do is submit and vote at least three Macitt stories per day. At the end of the month, the winner is rewarded with a new Apple TV!
Go check them out, and for easier access, be …
Apr 20, 2007 | | Tags:
ipod
In case you weren’t aware, retailer CompUSA is closing down 100+ stores in the US. The stores are liquidating all merchandise, including accessories, software and computers.
I was in today, and picked up the following:
Retail copy of Parallels Desktop – $58
Several iPod battery extenders – $1.99 each
Additionally, they have all versions of Windows Vista for 40% off retail, and a TON of Mac software (graphics programs, productivity apps, Ipod software, etc.). I also picked up a nice Kensington Mac keyboard for $21.00 (50% off).
So, if you have a CompUSA in your area, pop over and see if it’s one of …
Apr 19, 2007 | | Tags:
apple
An accident at work has left a 17″ MBP with coffee inside the lcd, keyboard and trackpad. The victim, on seeing the spill, immediately turned the system upside down/sideways to try to get the coffee to drain off/out.
Almost worked, but some got into the screen and it’s pretty bad. Taking it over to Apple, but it’s not a covered thing, so off to the repair depot it goes. Funny how getting almost everything replaced due to an accident costs half as much as the original system, eh?
Most expensive cup of coffee EVER.
Apr 18, 2007 |
This evening, after arriving home and being unable to connect to my Airport AGAIN, I gave up on Leopard and decided to put Tiger back on my machine. I backed up my stuff, found my original installation DVDs and set to work.
After booting to the 1st DVD, I clicked through the first installation screen and was greeted by the prompt ‘This software cannot be installed on this computer’.
Sorry, what?
I went into Disk Utility, thinking that perhaps the GUID partition had been screwed up by installing leopards version of BootCamp. I partitioned, erased and rebooted the system, making sure the partition type was right.
Same thing on the reboot. Ok…what the hell? I restarted again and ejected the install DVD to make sure I had grabbed the right disc. Yep, ‘17-inch Macbook Pro’. How odd, thought I, as I wondered exactly what was happening.
So I decided to boot again, then time to the Leopard DVD I originally started with a few short days ago. Blinking folder. Peachy…just peachy. Reboot. Nope. Zap pram. Nope. Pray. Nope. Curse loudly. Nope.
Ok, let’s see. What else can I do? I head to the closet and open my disc library (a cardboard box filled with obsolete software and various connectors to devices I no longer own). Hey…what’s that? Oh, an install kit for a Macbook Pro.
Apr 17, 2007 |
Check this out. If you hold down the ‘Shift’ key while moving your cursor over the Dock, it will magnify regardless of your Pref Pane settings. Pretty cool, eh?
(I want to throw out a VERY huge thanks to Andy, my best friend and co-conspirator, for the awesome job he did on this video…we plan to do many more in the future on more substantial subjects, but this is a start!)
Sure, it’s not a new Finder or some snazzy new interface or even something important, but I thought it …
I’ve been using Leopard in its various incarnations for almost a year now (Actually, a year in August, when I got the long awaited WWDC DVD). It’s been a long road, full of headaches followed by nearly immediate reinstalls of Tiger. It hasn’t been fun…
But this past week, Apple released a new seed build (9a410). This one is by far the most stable version yet, but there are still several little things broken that really shouldn’t be, in my oh-so-humble opinion.
The hubbub over the past few weeks has been about an October release date, fueled by the need to add iPhone and AppleTV specific features, but I gotta say: I think it needs more than a few additional bells and whistles added. There are still some kinks that need to be worked out.
Here are a few of the things that are bugging me so far. The thing to remember is that these ARE bugs and will hopefully be fixed by release, but I can’t avoid thinking that if things like these are still problems, then there may be larger issues we’re not aware of.
Apr 13, 2007 |
You’ve got to check this site out: Bittbox.com
Aside from being the place we got our awesome RSS icon from (See it over there, to the right? Good, now click it!), Bittbox offers some amazing tips and tricks as well as literally hundreds of free brushes, patterns, fonts and vectors.
Did I mention they are all free? If you’re a budding (or fully budded, I guess?) graphics guru, you should most certainly add Bittbox to your daily bookmarks.
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