Glenn Wolsey

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. Technorati Tags: burning, cd, notes, software

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 [...]

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! Technorati Tags: blogging, sites

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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