Here’s a little piece of retro chic for you as we come to the cusp on 2008-2009. The ION-Mac 560 still video system from Canon that brought a whole new dimension to computer imaging.
Back in 1992 the ION RC-560 was Canon’s top of the line Still Video camera, capturing images onto 2-inch reusable and interchangeable [...]
Back some 6 months ago or more, I wrote a piece about eye strain and how to try and avoid it. This was pretty much because I myself had come to the very stark realization that I was facing, not just the symptoms of, but the effects of eye strain. If you have done any reading up on the topic you will know that this includes anything from itching eyes, to blurred vision, added light sensitivity, and more. That was 6 months ago.
Ambrosia Software is releasing the best games bundle of all time. This is what they had to say about it in their own words:
This year Ambrosia celebrates our 15th year of serving all of you, our fantastic customers! We are thankful for your support and feedback over the years, so we’d like to offer a [...]
If I had a penny, cent, dinar or any other division of currency for every time I was asked the key combination for screen capture in Mac OSX, I would most likely be a millionaire by now.
One of the great features of last.fm user pages and widgets are the album and artist image quilts that they use in flash on the site and in embeddables. If you are anything like me, you will have thought how great it would be to be able to take such image quilts and actually place [...]
In a follow up to my posting on “Apple’s Credit Crunch Christmas“, it seems that the onslaught from Apple is unrelenting. There isn’t a day that goes by that doesn’t see a marketing email, all gift wrapped and pretty, sitting in my inbox from yours truly. Whereas last time I commented on how Apple was [...]
A dear friend and great game, icon and all round designer, Marcus Conge, has just released his update to the Adobe Creative suite 4 icon set. Drawing on the packaging for inspiration he has created some simple, yet definitely more inspired, selection of 17 icons to replace the existing ones, that by anyone’s admission are [...]
Having purchased my first 17″ Apple Powerbook back in 2003, I decided to buy a suitable bag for it at the same time. In perusing the available options I ended up buying a great looking bag from a startup company in San Francisco, namely Acme Made. The fact that I am still using the exact [...]
If iWeb is designed to make the process of creating web pages easy, then Rage Software’s recently released iWeb SEO tool is designed to make the process of Search Engine Optimization for iWeb easier too.
As those who have been following my articles will know, I have often bemoaned the general joke that is the HTML [...]
Based on the email marketing I just received from Apple, I don’t think anyone told them that the world economy is in crisis. This isn’t quite a time for a post-9/11 spend yourself out of a potential recession period, but more a time when people are tightening their purse strings for the long and cold [...]
Ever wanted to make a stop motion movie in which you were the subject? Well now with Gawker, the time-lapse application that makes movies with your web cam, you can, and with the tagline “Let your computer do the gawking.” it doesn’t leave much to the imagination Other benefits of Gawker include the fact that [...]
What to do when Apple Mail seemingly stops working for no apparent reason? In this article we cover a quick array of possible problem areas, from network issues, mailbox corruption and even settings, help you to track down and debug the potential problems with crashing, slowness and connectivity that you might encounter with your Mac [...]
I recently received an email with a 33KB attachment that had been sent via pando.com. In the contents of the email it suggested that I go to http://www.pando.com/download and retrieve a piece of software to be able to open the attachment.
I wouldn’t say I fell off my seat laughing, but it struck me how absolutely [...]
Update: Apple has announced a simple copy & paste functionality for embed code produced on many web 2.0 web sites, such as flickr & last.fm with iWeb ‘08, part of the iLife ‘08 suite of applications for OSX. We are as yet to confirm whether there is any templating functionality for embed code within iWeb [...]
Having recently read the following blog entry “Halloween Special: Secure Erase” about how easy it is to secure erase files in Apple’s latest version of the Mac operating System, codenamed Leopard, I thought I would write a quick review of ways to secure erase, files and entire hard drives for those of us using not [...]
AppZapper proclaims itself as the application uninstaller that Apple forgot about when it was creating Mac OSX. And the truth is that they are probably right!
A frequent complaint with OSX is that users are able to merely delete software from the applications folder with no recourse and end up encountering trouble or finding that remnants [...]