Saturday night and I’m still hard at work, tapping away at the MacBook Pro into the early hours of the morning for the sixth night straight. On the topic of the MacBook Pro, I’m starting to see slight ware and tear on the casing from where my hands rest while typing. Normal?
It’s been an extremely [...]

It has been a while since my last entry. I’ve barely had a moment to myself at home for two months, back and forth across the Tasman on a very regular basis has made I’d hard to get into any sort of realistic working routine. Now at home for another four weeks before I set [...]

It has been my goal for some time now to attend a wedding as the main photographer, a goal I completed over the weekend down in Christchurch, New Zealand - a two hour flight from home.
Overall I found the whole process rather relaxed. My flight arrived in Christchurch the afternoon before the wedding, and I [...]

I don’t have many resolutions this year, just four. Four simple goals I’d like to follow in the calendar year of 2008. I succeeded with each and every one of last years set goals, I hope I will be just as successful with these four things this year.
Work Hard, Play Harder
Most of 2007 was spent [...]

Credit: Flickr Photographer
Wow. I wish I felt like this all the time. I’ve just woken up after only heading to bed an hour ago, it’s eleven PM. I jumped out of bed feeling energized and motivated.
This happens to me quite frequently but I wish it stayed with me for longer than it usually does. I’ve [...]

Last year I wrote a similar post, here’s the 2007 edition of what technology I’ve purchased this year. All-in-all, I spent more than I wish I had on technology this year, I’m expecting 2008 to be a slightly quieter year. I’m happy with my current setup and will be for some time.
Mac Pro (Then Sold)
Last [...]

Just like last year, I’m heading away for a week for the annual Northern Districts cricket tournament, this time to Gisborne, New Zealand with the Bay Of Plenty Under 17 squad.
I’m heading away in the morning and will be back next Tuesday. It’ll be nice to have a break from technology and the internet [...]

Yes - I was indeed hacked yesterday. I didn’t expect it to stir up so much conversation in the community. The Digg homepage piece contains over 450 comments, a number which is very rarely achieved on an Apple related Digg piece.
I’d like to quickly thank all the people who have sent me emails offering words [...]

After looking at some stats this morning and seeing there have been 5,600 comments made over the 313 posts I’ve pressed the publish button to, I decided it’s time to give back to the loyal reader who are posting their thoughts on each entry I press the publish button to.
As this month has just started, [...]

I’ve been asked time and time again why my desk is so clean when I post a picture to Flickr, people tell me I should leave it the way it is and not ’stage’ the desk shots. Well, uhh, folks - that’s how my desk looks in a normal situation.
How I manage to keep such [...]

Just a few quick notes which don’t warrant a full post of their own, but I wanted to make a quick mention of.
I’ve sat down with a few other Mac fanatics and recorded the first episode of the MacFocus podcast. The team of Nick Danforth, Alex Killpatrick, Wesley Yendrys and myself produced the first podcast [...]

One year old today. 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, or 8,760 hours. It feels like so much longer, I’ve done so much over this short year - met so many cool people, blogged about so many cool things, and had a lot of fun communicating with the people who matter, you!
July 22nd, 2006 stated [...]

I have had some idea that something was happening inside Parkside Media on Macguide over the past month or two, and today I got comfirmation. Macguide, the magazine I’ve been writing to for over a year now is shutting up shop on the title due to poor advertising sales over the last few issues.
This hasn’t [...]

I thought I’d write a quick post thanking Jason McVearry and the great people at Media Temple for their excellent service over the past 6 months. I received an email from Jason a couple of weeks ago letting me know that they have made my account a “no-charge” zone, meaning I’m getting my Grid-Server hosting [...]

Last week I listed my week three Core Duo MacBook for sale on TradeMe, an auction site similar to eBay but specific for New Zealanders. I listed the laptop with intention to update it to a newer Core 2 Duo model, meaning I’d get a faster processor, the newer Airport card, and a fresh clean [...]

Everyone has places they go, things they do, or things they look at to gain inspiration to keep them motivated on the task in hand. I am no different, no matter what I’m doing, these 5 people/things never fail to inspire me to do great things.
Derek Punsalan
Derek Punsalan’s blog 5ThirtyOne remains at the top of [...]

I’ve been a little overwhelmed recently with all the projects I’ve taken on. With these projects my email load has increased. Along with this increased email load, I’ve also become overwhelmed with RSS feeds, tweets via Twitter, and Skype calls coming my way.
In a few months time I’m likely to drop a lot of [...]

Over the past year my interest in DVDs and movies has increased considerably. My DVD collection went up from a pitiful ten movies, to where it stands today at around 50 titles. No, it’s not too big compared to others, but for me to pick up 50 DVDs in the past year was quite a [...]

I’m currently waiting anxiously for WWDC to purchase a new setup. I was all set to purchase a 24″ iMac, until I decided to change my mind to a Mac Pro after hearing advice from a few Apple employees, and friends in the design business. The only downside to this sudden change in purchasing plans [...]

Update: I’ve decided to change my plan of attack, and lighten the load a little. Blog comments & Flickr activity now get directed into my RSS reader.
A few weeks ago I changed all my social web accounts to send emails to me when activity happened on my profiles/accounts. My volume of email has increased, but [...]

I’ve been holding off buying a new Mac for months and months now - and I’ve finally decided to..wait until WWDC (thats World Wide Developer Conference) in June this year before I purchase a new machine.

I’m sick and tired of waiting for an update to the iMac before I buy, but after waiting so long to purchase it, another few months of anxious waiting shouldn’t hurt. Though what exactly am I waiting on a new machine for if I feel I need to buy it now? I want Leopard and iLife (07) to be bundled on the machine - along with a few upgrades to the hardware side of the machine such as RAM capacity which I want increasing to 4GB, and a slight processor upgrade raising it to the 2.4Ghz mark.

Over the past few weeks I’ve become more decisive with my decision making, especially in terms of the direction this blog will continue heading in. I’ll continue to provide great product reviews, spotlights on new Mac applications, tutorials, personal opinion articles and more. I also have a few extra things I’ll be adding to make the blog a little more enjoyable both personally for myself, and for you.

Recently I have far too often been browsing blogs, responding to email, and chatting to collueages over Skype in the late hours of the night.Let me tell you this is not a good routine for someone who is waking up at 6AM every weekday morning. It doesn’t put me in the best position to be focused on studying the next morning.

As of recent I’ve had to keep away from my WordPress install, due to the fact that I’ve increasingly been wanting to write more personal opinion posts about topics currently (and currently not) in the news. This inspiration to get more personal has mainly been pushed into my head from one blogger, Khoi Vinh of [...]

It’s taken a lot of trial and error to find the right structure to my mornings, but I think I’ve finally found the right one. Last night I sat down and worked out a morning routine, it looks like this.
Wake Up at around 6AM. I like to rise early as the two times I work [...]

Last evening I was clearing out my inbox in Mail, filing important emails, deleting spam, and replying to the stacks of Mail which required action.
In the cleanup, I discovered an email from Greg Abbott. In his email, he attached a GlennWolsey.com Dashboard Widget as a little thanks for the invitation I sent him to 8apps.
I [...]

GlennWolsey.com has been begging for a stylish design since the day the blog was launched. I’ve always wanted a theme which drives me even further to write, and keeps my blogging energy alive - yes, a theme can do that.
That’s why I used part of the recent donations collected to help fund paying web designer [...]

I’ve got a few games to give away which I received around a year ago from Feral Interactive, a large gaming company for the PC and Mac.
The full games include the original DVD case and packaging, and have never been played.

Commandos: Battle Pack
Ford Racing 2
Tropico
If you’d like one of the games above, comment on this [...]

ReviewMe is a service where companies can purchase a review on a blog. The review must be over 200 words, but as some dont understand, it doesn’t need to be a positive review to be accepted.
I have decided to close my account on ReviewMe for a few reasons.
1. The reason most of my software posts [...]

It’s been a while since we last did this, so I decided to take a few moments to post and request all the lurkers to show their faces so I can get to know you all.
I know many of you just read (yes, thats you), but never participate in discussion under the articles in the [...]

This week my goal is to find my blogging voice, you can help me do this by telling me what you like reading about.
After a quick brainstorming session I’ve decided to keep my main focus on Apple, Productivity, Blogging, and Photography. In that order.
What topics do you enjoy reading, what topics do you dislike reading, [...]

As I have received a few email queries recently, this is just a quick post reminding readers that this blog does have an RSS feed - it’s located at the bottom of the page a little out of sight.
I will be moving the feed image toward the top of the page when the blog [...]

New Year Resolutions, I have never bothered with them in the past - but today I’m changing that. Instead of resolutions, here’s a group of 5 goals I would like to fulfill in 2007.

Learn, and have fun in the process
I want to start learning because I enjoy it, and have fun in the process. No [...]

Just a quick little post to let everyone know that the “Top Readers” plugin will be resetting on January the 1st (in other words the commenters count will be set back to 0 for the plug-in), and continue to tick for a further year. This will give newcomers a chance to get their name in [...]

It’s come to the time to wind down and review and look at the year which has almost passed. I’m doing a little review of what technology purchases I made personally this year. In other words this doesn’t include birthday or Christmas gifts, only objects I bought myself.

MacBook Core Duo
I had been eyeing up a [...]

At the moment there’s a lengthy discussion going on at Lifehacker about software that their readers have purchased this year, technology blogger Paul Stamatiou decided he would turn his purchases into a blog post, so I’m doing the same.
Here is a list of the applications I have paid for this year and am planning on [...]

Well guys, thats another Christmas gone. I had a great time with my family in Auckland, and also picked up a few cool new toys. Here’s an overview of a few of the tech items I received over the holiday period.

Canon 75-300mm Telephoto Lens
I’ve been wanting a telephoto zoom lens for quite a while now, [...]

This is how the game works: I tell you five things that you might not know about me, then I tag five people. They do the same, and each of them passes it on to 5 other people.
The game was started by Jeff Pulver. He started by tagging the video blogger, Steve Garfield. Here’s the [...]

Hey guys, just a quick post letting you know that I will be away from tomorrow morning for a week. I’m off to a cricket tournament for the Bay Of Plenty and will be unreachable for the time. In other words, I’m going to be absent from technology in the next week…refreshing.
Have a great week, [...]

Wow, today’s been pretty eventful. This afternoon I went over to the dentist for a check-up, then went to the mall to finish my Christmas shopping. When I got home I popped open Mail and saw an email from good friend Paul Stamatiou congratulating me on been accepted into the 9rules network.
I’ve been checking the [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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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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) [...]

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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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Welcome to the first “User Feedback” post. What I’m hoping to get out of this blog post is to understand my readers (thats you!) a little better, and understand what aspects you like about this blog.
Today’s topic is which kind of posts are better, long (article’s and long lists) or short (like I’ve been posting [...]

Today I hit over 50,000 unique visitors to this blog just 3 days over the one month mark (current unique total resides at 50,202). This comes from the 26 blog posts, and 311 comments which have been made to-date.

I’d like to thank every single one of the 50,000 individuals who have visited this blog during [...]

Well, the keynote is a day in the past and we now have a great new professional Macintosh system in the open, the new Mac Pro.
Congratulations to the winners Caitlyn, and Bryan James.

Caitlyn guessed:

Machine Name: MacPro
Processor: Two 2.66GHz Xeon aka Woodcrest Stock
Stock RAM: 1GB
Stock HDD: 320GB
Case Change: Yes (dual optical drive)
Stock Video Card: ATI X1800 [...]

WWDC is rearing closer as the hours pass, and the speculation is as high as it can go as to what Apple will uncover at the conference. Will Leopard blow our minds with some amazing new features - and will the MacPro blow us right out of the room with it’s speed?

Keep speculating with our [...]