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How to Make a Mac Dashboard Widget
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you’re a Mac user, you may want to place a personal Dashboard Widget. In this screencast, Alex is going to show you how quick and easy it is to do this! Don’t forget that you can submit your screencast for [...]
Windows vs Mac
Olivier Prud’homme decided to respond, at length, to my post on five ways Windows Vista is better than Mac OS X. The operating system wars will never subside, but if we could just stop talking in circles for one moment – maybe we could learn a thing or two about the OSes we choose not [...]
MacHeist: Mac Software Discounts, FTW!
When someone offers you hundreds of dollars worth of software for a fraction of the cost (legally), you’re insane to ignore the offer. This is what MacHeist is all about: a bunch of crazy people running around the Web, completing puzzles, and getting tons of digital bits in return. This time around, I scored dozens [...]
Give Good Food To Your Mac
Spicy Distribution announced the 2008 edition of ‘Give Good Food to Your Mac.’ In this special offer, the more products you buy, the greater the discount gets. Remember when I talked about it last year? It starts at 20% when you choose 3 apps and increases to 50% with 5 apps or more. You have [...]
10 More Awesome Free Mac OS X Apps
Did you have any of these already? Image Tricks – “Uses Mac OS X Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects. The program can create unique artwork you may use as business card background, for web design, print materials and more.” ArchDetect – “ArchDetect will perform a quick [...]
Mac Webcams
I’m lucky; I still have a working iSight in my home office. I don’t really use it anymore, because newer webcams sport far better resolution, image quality, frame rates, etc. No, it’s not up for sale – it’s a collector’s item. However, I wanted to let you know that just because a webcam doesn’t say [...]
50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X
Exclusive Coupons: $10 off Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac I love my Xbox 360s; I think Popfly rocks (Silverlight will bring much needed competition to Flash). Plus, I can’t live without Exchange and its server-side rules. I love my Microsoft mouse more than any other mouse in the world. Surface looks totally awesome, too. Microsoft [...]
Do Microsoft Employees Use (and Love) Mac OS X?
My friend Brandon works for Microsoft, and he also owns a Mac. He uses Windows on his Mac, but… let’s just assume that he’s not the only Microsoft employee who carries around Apple hardware (and software, given that Brandon’s running Boot Camp on it). What about MacBU? I can’t say that I’ve been all that [...]
How to Move the Home Folder in OS X – and Why
Someone, who can be identified as Darwin9 in the chat room, sent me a “How to Move the Home Folder in OS X Leopard.” I hadn’t done it yet, but it’s something that I was hoping to do for my next installation. Click on ‘Macintosh HD’ in the Finder and open the ‘Users’ folder. In [...]
Most Users Simply Can’t Switch to a Mac
I’m not surprised that Vista barfed on Philip Greenspun (RE: The $1000 HP desktop tower running Windows Vista), but I am surprised at his inline follow-up comment: I returned the system to Best Buy (a painful process that would have taken hours on a busy weekend day) and she reverted to her ancient Dell. When [...]
Is Apple Proprietary?
Ross Snowden and I have been interacting online for a while. He emailed me again last night: I watched a video (or perhaps it was the live feed on your site) a couple of evenings ago. You were reading a letter you received from someone who mentioned they might consider switching to the Mac operating [...]
Put Your Mac Apps on a Diet
MacBoy14 has seen the light: I have finally given in and bought Xslimmer. This $11.95 app is AMAZING! Since you are now gonna switch to an almost all-Mac house I thought it would be the perfect time to tell you. Anyways, if you haven’t seen this app, or you haven’t bought it, I HIGHLY recommend [...]
Time for an Upgrade: PC or Mac?
Peter Cochrane from Northern Ireland, U.K., submitted the following email. But instead of giving my response, I thought it would be interesting to hear what you’d suggest… Hey Chris, been watching / browsing your YouTube channel for about a month now and I gotta say – great! One thing I found particularly funny was the [...]
OS X Finder Tips
From my Mac genius friend, ‘Darwin9′… File Paths? In the Finder, if you select the View menu | Show Path Bar, you get an interactive path bar along the bottom of the Finder window. By interactive, I mean you can drag files to each folder in the path bar allowing you to easily move content [...]
Top 100 Mac Apps
I’ve compiled a list of my top 100 Mac apps for your perusal, since so many people have been asking for it. Thanks to Taylor Olson and Jason for helping me put all the icons and links in place! These apps are certainly Tiger compatible, and most of ‘em work inside Leopard (though the VNC [...]
