Disco Is Smoking, Win A Copy!

Apple 27 Comments »

Disco, the media burning app with a twist is now available as a public beta.

If you want to purchase it, you might consider doing the today-only offer on macZOT where you’re also entered into a drawing to potentially win one of three LaCie burners.
I have one copy of Disco to give away to a lucky [...]

iUseThis Profile Maker

Apple 6 Comments »

iUseThis, the Mac software community’s answer to Digg.

The one thing that has held me back from becoming an active user of the iUseThis community is the fact that I have to go through the site manually and click “iUseThis” on each and every application I have. I have over 150 application installed on my Mac, [...]

5 Digg Homepage Stories In 5 Days - A Reality, Not A Dream

Personal 11 Comments »

Wow, I seriously don’t know how to sum up the past 5 days of blogging. A few words which come to mind are amazing, enthralling, and astonishing.
Why have the past 5 days been so astonishing? Because each and every one of the previous 5 articles I’ve posted (one a day over the past 5 days) [...]

Building Your iTunes Music Library

Apple 20 Comments »

iTunes - No question, is the worlds best and most widely used music management application.
The main function of iTunes is to store your entire digital music collection. Some people have 200 tracks, others have 50,000. But where do people get all their music? People with bulging MP3 collections surely can’t buy every track they own, [...]

A Realistic Dream Setup

Apple 44 Comments »

Everyone has their own illusion of their dream Macintosh setup. A 3.00Ghz Mac Pro powering 2 30″ Cinema displays, maxed out with 16GB of RAM and a MacBook Pro for the road. But realistically, less than one percent of people who want this setup, actually get it. Whats your dream setup which is actually affordable?

Here’s [...]

MainMenu 1.7 Released, And I’m In The About Window

Apple 13 Comments »

For all those system maintenance junkies out there, MainMenu 1.7 - “Your Make My Day System Management App” has just been released. Never heard of it before?

MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simplistic interface.
Don’t have time to run all the various tools and scripts [...]

Move That Mouse: Mouse Distance Measurer

Apple 13 Comments »

The menu-bar on your Macintosh can help define what kind of person you are, and what you do. If you have a extra icons such as iChat, Adium, and Skype, you’re a social person. If you have menu-meters, you like stats and monitoring how your system is performing. If you have an iTunes controller, and [...]

The Key To A Simple Dock Is Overflow

Apple 15 Comments »

Sick of your dock been crammed with dozens of applications when you typically only use around 5 at any given time, and the others are used less frequently but you still want quick access to them? Thought you were, let’s fix this cluttered dock problem once and for all.

Overflow 2.0 is made by Stunt Software, [...]

How to Increase Your Chances Of 9rules Inclusion

Blogging 5 Comments »

If you are like me, you will have been doing all you can these last few weeks to prepare for 9rules round 5 of blog submissions.

For those new to the 9rules concept, it’s a blog community (much like a network) where people apply to be included into the network when they have “inclusion rounds”. The [...]

New Server: Check

Personal 1 Comment »

Hey everyone! Sorry for the downtime we experienced over the past week, the good news is that now this site is hosted on a blazing fast Media Temple Grid-Server so downtime will be a no-issue from now on.
Enjoy the new blazing speed!

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iChatter? Organize Your Contacts By Frequency

Productivity 4 Comments »

Are you a frequent user of iChat, Apple’s IM chat application? If so, you know how hard it is to keep track of hundreds of contacts at once. Let’s get organized!
Organize By Groups
Grouped organizing is nothing new, but finding a convenient way to name and manage your groups can be difficult at the best of [...]

4 Months Young, And Spreading Out

Personal 5 Comments »

Well, only a few months into this hobby called blogging and I’ve already hit more than 60 posts. I’ve had an awesome time writing for you guys, and expect a lot more to come in the future!
As of these first few months my primary focus has been on the Mac and Apple. As of today [...]

Speedlinking - 13th October 2006

Web 1 Comment »

• TUAW is looking for some new bloggers. Interested?
• Need help working out mathematic problems? Soulver is the answer. Expect a review coming next week.
• Apple’s Finder bugging you with it’s basic feature set? Check out ten alternatives to the Finder here.
• Need a nice theme for your Wordpress blog? This list of the best [...]

Bittorrent Doesn’t Get More Simple Than This: Transmission 0.7

Apple 10 Comments »

Transmission is an open-source bittorrent client which is pretty popular among the Mac community. I got my hands on the Beta version of Transmission 0.7 and checked out some of it’s cool new features.

This is the main window of Transmission, simple and light weight, just how I like applications. You can easily see your currently [...]

Cha-Ching: Enjoy Seeing Your Money Dwindle Away

Apple 8 Comments »

Tired of poorly designed money tracking applications like Quicken which are a pain to work with, and always have you cringing at the thought of sitting down and getting your finances sorted?
Cha-Ching changed my whole attitude towards tracking cash-flow and now even has me wanting to get sorted. How could one application have such a [...]

Google Purchases YouTube

Web 2 Comments »

Google has laid speculation to rest — it is buying YouTube for US$1.65 billion in a stock transaction.YouTube operates a wildly popular Web site showing original videos in a range from amateurish to professional.
It will continue to operate independently after the Google acquisition “to preserve its successful brand and passionate community,” Google said Monday [...]

Ecto Universal

Apple 2 Comments »

My little blogging client which I use to connect with the WordPress API has been updated and is now available in an “Intel” only binary, making is super fast. It now opens in half a bounce in the dock, alike Mail and Safari.

If you are not farmiliar with Ecto, it’s an application which allows you [...]

Need A Hand There Buddy?

Personal 8 Comments »

When I was re-designing the site and moving from Symphony to WordPress, I posted a request for some help on the blog at the time. Who put there hand up and volunteered to help me out? Michael Yurechko did.
I asked Michael to manually re-post over 400 comments from the Symphony install, to the WordPress install. [...]

7 Slickest Mac Setups: Take Three

Apple 17 Comments »

Following up from the two last editions which proved so popular (both on Digg homepage), here is the 7 Slickest Mac Setups: Take Three, where I have selected another 7 setups from Flickr to showcase.

FileBrowse: Browse Your Files In A 3D Environment

Apple 2 Comments »

One of the publics major gripes about OSX 1.4 Tiger is the Finder, it’s clearly outgrown it’s life, and it’s showing. Many cant wait for Leopard (including myself) to see what Apple does to the Finder. In the meantime, there is another app in town…
FileBrowse is a new, easy-to-use file/media browser for Mac OS X [...]

Gleam: Yet Another Flickr Uploader

Apple 7 Comments »

There are now so many applications out there which allow you to upload images to the online photo sharing site Flickr, it’s difficult to choose which one to use.
My personal favourite, Flickr Uploadr is a nice, simple application which let’s me do everything I want to with my images before an upload. Such as title [...]

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