Reader Christian Kuttruff sent me an email a few days back after my post, How Does Your Mac Look?
He wanted to know how my file system was organized on my Mac because he was looking for the perfect way to sort his.
My file system is perfectly organized, I know where everything is, and can bring [...]

6:00am - Wake up to the alarm on my phone.
6:05am - Hit the enter button on the iMac, Mail and NewsFire automatically kick into action.
6:06am - Open up my Mail, review new comments and trackbacks on my blog, and read other important emails. I generally have around a dozen new emails each morning, so it’s [...]

Rarely do I come across a piece of software which wow’s me as much as Soulver has. Why has Soulver astounded me? Because of it’s innovation and the way it uses a technology as a feature in a way no other application has before.
Soulver is a new kind of calculator application which allows you to [...]

I’m proud to announce we have reached the 1000 comment mark here on GlennWolsey.com
After yesterdays new feature announcement, comment volume has sky-rocketed and user involvement is at an all time high. It’s great to see everyone getting involved and enjoying themselves while fighting for the top spot in the comments.
Congratulations to the 1000th comment poster [...]

Personally I’m running my digital life off two machines, an Intel iMac and MacBook. The iMac is the 17″ Core Duo model, with the base 160GB HDD, and RAM upgraded to 1.5GB. The MacBook is the bare bones Core Duo model (in white), with no upgraded RAM.
At the moment I’m pretty happy with my setup, [...]

You might have already noticed, but if you look at the sidebar of the blog, there is a new item visible. It’s called Top Readers, and displays the top 5 readers of GlennWolsey.com by order of who has made the most comments.
I decided to add this feature to the blog because without your feedback and [...]

This following tip is so simple and obvious, yet no one that I have talked to ever puts it into action.
I’m the type that has to check his email every time I hear it beep, I cannot leave it there sitting unread. It has to be read the second I receive it, otherwise it bugs [...]

Many bloggers write a long post on why they are blogging, but I thought I’d do it a little differently and post in the ever so popular list format. Here’s 5 reasons why I blog.

1. It’s Fun

Blogging is simply fun. I enjoy writing, I enjoy receiving feedback, and I enjoy seeing my work on the [...]

Each and every Friday I’m going to be posting a desktop wallpaper for all the Mac users out there that I have taken using my Canon 350D DSLR. Photography really interests me and this gives me a nice way to showcase some work, while giving readers something for nothing.
The wallpaper is sized at a resoultion [...]

I am so attentive to how my Mac is organized. Everything has a place, and everything must be in place. I can find a file in seconds (yes, even without Spotlight), and there is not one thing out of place, it’s all perfectly in order and sorted. In other words, I have a little OCD [...]

As most of you, I have a list of blogs I absoutely love to read, and get excited everytime I see an unread item in one of their feeds in NewsFire.
PhillRyu
Phill Ryu, a well known name in the Mac community. Before his MyDreamApp fame, and after his Menuet fame he began his personal blog, [...]

It has been exactly 4 months since I began this great hobby called blogging. The first entry was posted on July 22nd 06, and today the 22nd of November marks 100 posts.
This means I’ve blogged roughly 0.83 times each and every day over the last four months. Over the period 100 posts have been written [...]

Leah Culver just got herself a brand new 15 inch MacBook Pro, with a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 3 GB RAM, and a 200 GB Hard Drive, for free! How’d she manage it? Let’s take a look.

Above is a picture of Leah’s new MacBook Pro. A few months ago she created a [...]

Cha-Ching, the application for managing your personal finances has been updated to beta version 0.3. It has many more improved, enhanced, and new features over the previous 0.2 release.

Here is an overview of the new features:
.Mac Backup
You can now backup your Cha-Ching library to your .Mac account and revert to previous backups. This is a [...]

Today an article I wrote for friend Darren Rowse of ProBlogger went live. The article I wrote entitled “5 Essential OSX Blogging Tools” covers the full process of blogging and which apps come in handy for each task.
The tasks are Collect News, Compose, Resize Images, and Announce.
Check out the article here.

Want to find out how many songs you can cram onto your new shuffle, or how many songs encoded in pristine AIFF format you can put onto your brand new 80GB iPod? Well stop guessing, a new widget called iPodage will let you easily calculate how many songs your iPod can hold.

You choose your iPod [...]

We all know the feeling. We wake up, jump on the computer and open Mail, where we see 43 new emails, many needing action to be made. Then we open our favorite RSS reader (in my case NewsFire), and have over 400 unread items waiting for our attention, even when we have sorted through all [...]

Hey guys, I just bought a new iPod nano and the Nike + iPod sports kit these past two days, and I’m looking for a few people who want to join in on my “GlennWolsey blog” challenge to see who can run the furthest over the course of the new month.
So, anyone up for a [...]

Have you ever wanted to take a screenshot of a page on the internet, but don’t like the quality of a normal capture, using an application like “Grab?
Have you ever wanted to take a screenshot, but found the page is longer than your screen real-estate? Then the application Paparazzi is for you!
After you install and [...]

As many of you know from this post, I’ve taken the plunge on a Canon 350D DSLR recently. After I’d been taking shots for the first couple of days iPhoto just didn’t seem to cut it for editing photos anymore. I had moved up from the consumer Sony CyberShot to a professional Canon DSLR, so [...]

Blogs can be a great hobby, but they are even more fun to write when you are getting rewarded with cash. It can give you that extra little edge and push to write great content, keep you focused, and keep you blogging for longer periods of time.

ReviewMe has made that goal achievable for every blogger [...]

Hello again! I’m back from my trip to Auckland. Thanks to everyone who has expressed their concern and emailed me wishing my family the best of luck in this tough time.
However I do have some good news. I went up to Auckland because my Dad’s mother was rushed into hospital, and the outlook looked very [...]

Sorry guys, I had some cool stuff planned over the next few days for you but there’s an emergency in the family and I have to leave to go up to Auckland right now, I’m packing my bag as I type…
I’ll have some great content for you when I get back.
Best,
Glenn

Dont want to run a full blown application or install a menu-bar item to run maintenance scripts on your Mac? Well you dont need to - introducing Maintidget, the one and only maintenance widget for OSX.

Maintidget provides the following functions:

Display the last time the daily, weekly, and monthly OS X Maintenance Scripts were run
Run the [...]

Josh Llewellyn, a reader of this blog has kindly set up a Flickr group for fellow readers of this blog (of course I will be taking part too).
From the group description
“A group for the reader’s of GlennWolsey.com, GlennWolsey.com is the online home of 14 year old New Zealander who has an obsession with Apple computers, [...]

That’s right, if you couldn’t tell from the title I’ve finally taken the plunge on a DSLR after all of your advice and help. What did I chose? The Canon EOS 350D.
So far I’ve taken around 100 test shots, the DSLR gives me immensive control over what I’m shooting. I’ve already done some comparisons to [...]

Time for another “reader feedback” post as I’d like to get a feel for what you guys like to read about, and equally, what you dont like reading about.
Dont like me posting about design, or blogging? Or absolutely love my visual application reviews? Let me know so I can adapt and give you all what [...]

Derek Punsalan, a freelance web designer behind 5ThirtyOne has just released yet another amazing WordPress theme to the public free of charge.

The new theme, Widgetized October Special is a newer version of his great theme Pink For October (which was also made available for free).
The theme is a widgetized release which allows users to manipulate [...]

I woke up this morning, and checked my RSS feeds as normal. But one thing I do different when checking my RSS feeds is I actually click through to the site if I want to read something of interest.
Macworld UK was one of those sites this morning, I clicked through on a news piece that [...]

From the people who brought you My Dream App comes the next big thing in Mac software.
You might have seen other sites talking about MacHeist, but unlike everyone else in our little corner of the internet, we actually know what MacHeist is all about.Here’s what we know:

* The eventual product of the site [...]

If you own an Intel Macintosh and are using Universal Applications then space is been wasted on your hard-drive in the form of un-necessary code.
Most application are coded in Universal Binary. This means it contains the code to run on both Intel and PPC Mac’s natively. But why would you need to keep the PPC [...]

Congratulations to Mark Z who is the winner of our “Comment to win Disco” competition.
Mark, your copy of Disco will be there soon, to all other participants, thanks for entering. It wont be the last contest you see.

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Sick of web adverts on site’s such as Digg, TUAW, or iLounge? There’s a simple solution to make sure you will never see an advert again, here it is:

Download this CSS file.
Place it somewhere on your Mac. (I recommend in the ~/Library/Safari folder.)
Launch Safari and then open the “Advanced” section of the preferences.
From the “Style [...]