Retro Digital Photography - The ION-Mac 560 from Canon

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

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 [...]

Suffering Eye Strain and Finding Solutions

Monday, December 29th, 2008

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 Releases Killer Games Bundle

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

Built-In Screen Capture Key Combo in OSX

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

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.

Last.FM Album Cover Quilt Your Mac Desktop

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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 [...]

Joy That Can Be Seen and Heard (by Apple)

Monday, December 8th, 2008

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 [...]

CS4 Application Icon Replacement Set

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

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 [...]

Acme Made, The Best Laptop Bags for Christmas & Beyond!

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

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 [...]

Place Higher in Google with Rage’s iWeb SEO Tool

Friday, November 21st, 2008

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 [...]

Apple’s Credit Crunch Christmas

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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 [...]