Glenn Wolsey

Typing this post within the brand new and still shiny Leopard environment, I’m now completely setup and running with the new evolutionary operating system from Apple – OSX 10.5 Leopard. Leopard turned up two days earlier than I had expected – landing on my doorstep on Saturday afternoon along with a few other goodies. I’d [...]

My copy of Mac OSX Leopard left Sydney on route to Auckland, New Zealand as of last night. I’m not expecting it to turn up until Monday morning due to living at a rural delivery address in New Zealand, though if I could order Leopard again, I’d have it sent to a friends place in [...]

With the release of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard just over 24 hours away, if you’re like me you’ll be eagerly preparing for the new operating system. I’ve been asked a few times over the weeks leading up to the launch announcement of Leopard on which external hard drives would be good to hook up for [...]

As Apple has become more involved with mobile media, they’ve developed a strong connection with Google integrating YouTube into their line of products. The integration of YouTube they’ve mapped in on the iPhone, iPod touch and the Apple TV is impressive – their connection with Google has increased in strength and reach as the year [...]

The latest and greatest Mac operating system OSX Leopard 10.5 is just six days away from arriving in our hands. I took a good look at the full list of 300 new features and hand picked ten small but significant ones to showcase. Multicore Enhanced OS As I’m sporting a Mac Pro, I like to [...]

A few days after posting about the troubles I were having with the Apple Wireless keyboard, I received an email from an Apple customer relations employee from Australia who offered to send out a replacement unit. This isn’t the first time I’ve been left in awe amazement by Apple’s customer support. I’ve had trouble with [...]

The recently introduced iTunes Wi-Fi Store is something I’ve been waiting on for a long time. In the past I’d heard people talking about how they’d love to be able to purchase music directly on their iPod over Wi-Fi – now they can with the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. I must say, this is one [...]

If you’re a frequent TV watcher and enjoy spending time on your Mac, why not combine two “hobbies” into one with the eyeTV Hybrid, a simple device which plugs into a free USB port on your Mac allowing you to watch, pause, and record live TV. Included in the box is a remote control to [...]

One major disappointment I didn’t cover in much detail in yesterdays iPod touch review is the restriction on regions of data input. With the iPhone, you have the ability to take notes, add contacts, write emails, browse the web, and add calendar events – with the iPod touch, you’re restricted to just browsing the web [...]

I’ve just finished polishing up my 1500 word review on the new 16GB iPod touch for Macguide. I’ve been really impressed with the iPod to date, it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite Apple products. The user interface is one of the best features of the iPod touch, it makes searching for and browsing through [...]

After having my new Apple Wireless Keyboard for two weeks now, this afternoon I decided to throw in the towel and switch back to the wired version after a few frustrating weeks of tapping away at the keys. Aesthetically, it’s beautiful. I love the form factor, the way it’s shaped, and the lack of wires [...]

Credit: Flickr photographer Jeremy Bogan As a daily user of Elgato’s wonderful and highly praised EyeTV Hybrid (review coming soon), I was pleasantly surprised and impressed with the version 2.5 software update which was released yesterday. The main addition to the application is the ability to stream recorded television shows to your Wi-Fi enabled devices [...]

As I’m sure most of you will know, the iPod touch is now freely available in most Apple Stores in both the United States and the United Kingdom. However many who pre-ordered via Apple’s website a couple of weeks back haven’t had theirs shipped yet – including me. I ordered my 16GB iPod touch the [...]

I found this image of the Apple TextEdit icon in Leopard last week and immediately dragged it to my desktop for safe keeping. Stumbling upon it again today and taking a closer look, I had a few thoughts which ran through my mind. This level of detail is something you wouldn’t see any other company [...]

Blog reader Jan sent me three emails over the past 24 hours with iPod related questions. Jan, since I’ve taken so long to answer your emails, I though I’d take the opportunity to address these questions in a blog post. iPod Touch One iPod I plan on purchasing is the iPod touch, not sure yet [...]

After having the new iLife 08 suite for a few weeks now (I purchased it the day after it came out), I’ve finally got around to publishing around 700 words of my thoughts on Macguide. iPhoto 08 is another huge leap in features and performance over the previous version, keeping up a trend in innovation [...]

I have one word for you regarding the latest update to the popular DVD encoding application Handbrake. That word is ‘Wow!’ The latest version of Handbrake, 0.9.0 is labeled by the developers as a major update with a vastly improved user experience through a re-envisioned Mac interface that’s been rebuilt from the ground up. Along [...]

After having the machine for just over 6 weeks, I feel the time is right to post some more detailed views about my 2.66Ghz Apple Mac Pro. This review is based on (almost) baseline specifications of the shipping Mac Pro, with an additional 2GB of RAM and an extra 500GB data hard drive. Mac Pro [...]

While keeping an eye on Twitter updates via Twitterrific today, I stumbled across an excellent web application called Wakoopa. Weird name huh? What’s it all about? When signing up to the service you’re prompted to download the desktop client for either Mac OSX or Windows (the Linux version is current a work in progress). This [...]

I’ve been using the Safari 3 beta since the day it launched at this years World Wide Developer Conference. Overall, I’ve had a very pleasant experience with the browser, it hasn’t crashed as frequently as you’d expect with beta software and feels very well polished for such a new product. Two features have stood out [...]