Archive for the 'Mac' Category
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Firefox 3 is in Release Candidate 1 stage. But it shouldn’t go out yet. Yes, there are improvements but I think there’s one big regression: its AppleScript is broken.
There’s two pieces of data that’s critical for several apps to get from Firefox: the current URL and the current Title. The […]
Tags: applescript, firefox
Posted in Mac, WebnoteHappy, firefox | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
A friend and colleague of mine, Justin Williams of Second Gear, just released his first Mac app: Today. It’s a fresh new look on iCal that helps you see your events and tasks for just today. It kind of reminds me of those daily desktop paper calendar where you rip off the page […]
Tags: iCal, Mac, Software
Posted in Mac, Reviews, Software | No Comments »
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Camino 1.6 was just released yesterday. Since I’m a browser aficionado, I’ll be taking this latest release for a test drive this weekend. It seems like the Mac Browser Wars will be heating up yet again.
Tags: Browsers, Camino, Mac
Posted in Browsers, Camino, Mac | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
I just recently upgraded to the Leopard 10.5.2 update and I thought I’d share my short but sweet process on performing upgrades of OS X (aka applying or installing a system update) without regrets:
1. Wait a day or two.
Sometimes updates have an issue with them ever after extensive beta testing, people report bugs, and then […]
Tags: Mac, osx, system update
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
MacSanta is back this year! MacSanta for the uninitiated is like a big sale of Mac software from independent developers (who I like to call Mac Indies.) There’s different featured Mac software deals every day, all for 20% off, good for that one day only!
Today (Friday December 7th), we’ve got Hazel from my […]
Tags: coupon, deals, Mac, macsanta, sale, Software, WebnoteHappy
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
I was driving up Interstate 95 coming back from Charlotte, NC, the site of RubyConf 2007 when I bought TaskPaper. Well actually my wife was driving while I was engaged on my MacBook Pro + EVDO. I think TaskPaper is quite a good task manager because it is simple yet still helps keep […]
Tags: core_data, Mac, persistence, review, Software, taskpaper
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
sjk wrote on iusethis about WebnoteHappy:
Right now my top request for this app would be an “Open selected items in browser tab” command, with a preference to warn if attempting to open over an N item limit.
Currently, in WebnoteHappy 1.3.1, you can select multiple bookmarks and then open them in your default browser. You […]
Tags: bookmark, open_in_tabs, Safari, Tabs, url, WebnoteHappy
Posted in Browsers, Mac, Safari, WebnoteHappy | 1 Comment »