Posts in "Mac Love"

Steve Jobs – He Made the Future Real October 6th, 2011

Steve Jobs inspired me to make apps for the Mac, quit my job and start my own business.  He created the mobile apps industry where I now mostly make my living.  Apple under Steve Jobs set the gold standard for smart phones, tablets, customer experience and even presenting on stage.  I feel fortunate to have …

I’m drooling over the 27″ iMac October 21st, 2009

I had dreamed that this day would come 3 years ago in my iMac 24″ = Mac Semi-Pro post. I think we now have a true Mac Semi-Pro. I’ve been working for the past few years on a 20″ iMac (white) paired with a 20″ monitor. Together, its 1680×1050 x 2, or 3360 x 1050. …

10 things I’m thankful for in Leopard November 23rd, 2007

Since yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought I’d share 10 things I’m thankful for in Leopard. If you don’t unmount a file share before you leave a network, Finder doesn’t lock up liked it used to in Tiger Safari 3 – so many things to like about it – its faster, improved …

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1- what’s good and what could be improved for us Mac users November 20th, 2007

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 came out today. Being a browserista (aka a browser-fanatic), I downloaded and played with it. It has some interesting new things like a Mac OS X theme that you can download. Here’s a snapshot of Firefox 3 with the default theme on Leopard: And here’s a snapshot of Firefox 3 with …

The mysteries of the Mac OS X tab cycle November 8th, 2007

I was working on a reported bug in WebnoteHappy – sometimes you cannot tab everywhere. That is, you can start out with the Source List with the Library and your folders and then you go to the Search Field. From here, you hit tab again and you go the Bookmark List and then to the …

iPhone SDK coming in February 2008! October 17th, 2007

Steve Jobs on Apple Hot News: Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. …

Red Sweater buys MarsEdit! February 22nd, 2007

Wow – big news…. Red Sweater bought MarsEdit – the blogging app. Here’s a nice Q&A session about the MarsEdit acqusition with Brent Simmons who developed MarsEdit and Daniel Jalkut who heads up Red Sweater.

Where does iChat keep your buddy icon? January 17th, 2007

So you’ve taken a nice buddy icon of yourself with your iSight in iChat. Now where did iChat stick that picture? Answer: Home > Library > Images > iChat Recent Pictures Thanks to Matthew Wanderer and his iChat FAQ for this answer.

iPod Phone spotted in Cingular ad for the BCS championship game? January 9th, 2007

My buddy Rob who makes the cool YouTube app TubeSock was watching the college football (aka BCS) championship last night. He saw this ad from Cingular that might just show the iPod Phone.

Buy today and help sick kids December 7th, 2006

Today Happy Apps is participating in a charity event for Child’s Play, which helps sick kids in the hospital out by providing them with toys and games to enjoy. It’s not just me, but several members of the Mac Indie Developer community is participating. (Thanks for putting this together, Mike!) The deal is – you …