Mac 101 – Drag and drop text clippings
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 [...]
Leopard wallpaper
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?
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Panic releases ‘Coda’ – connection manager/web editor extraordinaire!
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, [...]
Macitt – Win an Apple TV
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 [...]
Great liquidation deals at CompUSA
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% [...]
Venti non-fat Vanilla Macbook Latte – to go
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 [...]
Bizarre post-Leopard Macbook problem
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 [...]
Cool new Dock enhancement in Leopard
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 [...]
A few more reasons Leopard isn’t ready for prime time
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 [...]
Are you an Illustrator or Photoshop user?
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? [...]
