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 …

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 each day. …

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.

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, …

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 friend …

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 …

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 you organized. …