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Month September 2006

Looking For A Good Homepage? Smplr Is The Answer

Tired of loading you default homepage to the web dozens of times each day when all you want to do is go to another site? If this is the case, you want a really fast loading page as your homepage.

The answer for most is Google.com, but today I found a super-fast alternative called Smplr.
Smplr is [...]

7 Slickest Mac Setups: Take Two

Following up from the last edition which proved so popular, here is the 7 Slickest Mac Setups: Take Two, where I have selected another 7 setups from Flickr to showcase.

Weekend Online Spending Spree

Over this past weekend I’ve made a few (okay, a lot) of purchases online. So what did I spend my hard earned cash on?

ScreenCastsOnline Extra! Membership
ScreenCastsOnline provide great, educational, helpful video tutorials bought to you from Don McAllister.
I decided to splash on the Extra! Membership because of the added bonus content you get over a [...]

Stylish Firefox Replacement Icon

Many will agree with me when I say I hate the Firefox icon under OSX. I dont hate the actual icon, just when it’s in your dock it’s too big and looks out of place. Change that now with Adam Betts Firefox replacement icon, which is a little smaller and enhanced than the default icon [...]

How-To: Make The Best Use Of Pukka

Pukka is a simple OS X app for del.icio.us bookmarking. I discovered Pukka after reading the article “Top 10 OS X apps to supplement blogging” by Derek Punsalan.
Most of you should know about the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. If not, the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to [...]

Stylish NewsFire Replacement Icon

Sick of the NewsFire RSS reader icon and feel it needs to be refreshed? So do I, thats why I went searching for replacement icons and found this highly stylish replacement icon from Denis Radenkovic

Download the icon at this link, then to install Ctrl-Click on NewsFire, choose “Show Package Contents” from the context menu. Go [...]

Visual Preview: Shiira 2.0 Browser

Shiira is not a big name in the Mac browser business, that spot belongs to the likes of Safari, Firefox, and Flock. But be prepared to have another browser added to the list of must haves very soon, when Shiira 2.0 is released to the public.
Shiira 2.0 has been completely re-designed from the ground up [...]

Re-designed, Re-branded

Well, this has got to be one of the quickest, yet most beautiful simplistic design I have ever made for a site.
First, a little back story. Throughout the past few weeks I’ve been dugg to the Digg homepage many times, and my CMS (content management system) Symphony just didn’t handle the traffic well enough, so [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Announced

Adobe today announced Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, the next version of its professional bundle of Adobe applications. Version 2.3 will include its Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software.

Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver 8, the Web design and development tool acquired from Macromedia.
Adobe expects to ship [...]

Xtorrent, Bittorrent Simplified

Looking for a basic bittorrent client where you can manage the whole bittorrent process from within?

David Watanabe’s latest application Xtorrent run’s you through the whole torrenting process flawlessly, from searching for, and picking a torrent, to downloading and delivering it straight to iTunes and your iPod.
Pick up the beta here, and look out for a [...]

Adium: Story Of The Duck

Chris Forsythe has an interesting little post on the Adium developer blog regarding the progression of the application’s icon.

He say’s: “Overall, the duck has been a good mascot and has worked well for us for years. It’s drawn sharp criticism by some, and love and affection by others. You have to know you are doing [...]

iMac 17″ vs 20″ vs 24″

Check out these amazing pictures of a 17″ iMac, compared with a 20″ display and the brand new 24″ iMac thanks to a MacRumors member by the name of mulletman13
This machine is absoutely huge!

Welcome To The New Engadget

Look’s like Engadget has undergone a radical re-design.

Some of the new features include

Digg like user moderated comments

Auto comment login

Dynamic content width for widescreen monitors

Engadget Mobile headlines

Tags and tag feeds, and category feeds

Multiple podcast feeds!

What do I like about the new site? The design now look much more Web 2.0ish, the new dynamic content looks great [...]

Lurker Roll Call: The First

Following in the steps of successful technology blogger and friend Paul Stamatiou I decided to take a few moments to post and request all the lurkers to my blog to show their faces so I can get to know you all!
I’ve been wondering who all the wonderful people are who read my blog, I know [...]

Canon 350D vs 400D?

Update: I’ve taken the plunge on the 350D. To check out some sample images, check out the posts filed under photography.
As many of you know, I’m currently saving for my first digital SLR. I’m not sure when I’ll be purchasing it, but the advice I get from this post might determine how much longer it [...]

Stat Fans, Feast Your Eyes

Happen to just love stats about your Macintosh? Well then you should know about the iStat widget from iSlayer Software. But no, it’s not the widget I’m talking about, introducing the brand new iStat 2.0, a full Mac statistical application for those who just cant get enough of the widget.

How is it different from the [...]

Uno Theme Updated

Uno, the theme Mac users like myself has been updated to correspond with yesterdays release of iTunes 7, plus many bux fixes.

The change log:

iTunes 7.

Fixed a bug that would prevent UNO from applying to Firefox and Thunderbird on some system setups.

Fixed an issue that would prevent UNO from install and uninstall on systems where Spotlight [...]

Icon Set: The iPod Family

Looking for a new icon for your brand new 5th Generation iPod, iPod nano, or iPod shuffle? Then these are the icons for you.

Including 8 icons: iPod 5G, iPod shuffle 2G, iPod nano (silver, blue, black, pink, and green) .They will go perfectly with your new little treasure and help on the ever adventure to [...]

Resize: Resize Images Quickly

I am always having to resize images for my various blog posts, forum signature, avatars, and more. But I dont always want to open a bulky application like Photoshop, or even something smaller like ImageWell. I want something which is simple, opens in a flash, and just does the job right.
What’s my solution? Resize from [...]

A Day In A Life Of Glenn

I didn’t plan on posting any video’s from YouTube on my blog, nor’ do I intend to in the future. But today I was bored so I created a little movie using my MacBook’s iSight camera, and iMovie with it’s Time Lapse feature.

View it here