Windows Media Videos (WMV) is something that gets us Mac users angry pretty often. Microsofts Windows Media Player and the browser plugin are, sorry I have to say it, a pain in the ass! Pausing and than resuming playback often results in audio and video being out of sync or it just doesn’t play anything […]
Do you like Steve Jobs quotes? Do you like stylish Apple presentation slides? Than this screensaver made with Quartz Composer (Tiger only) could be something for you. The quote collection is pretty big, some of them I haven’t seen till now, and the quotes are presented in a very stylish Apple-esque way, so if you […]
I’m sure you know the situation when you just can’t make a decision on something important. If you only have two options were both would be similar good (or bad) decisions, then a simple coin thrown in the air can already help, but what if there are multiple options and all have their positive and […]
Do you have tons of images that should be resized, resampled, cropped, rotated or converted into an other image format? Before you now start to open each of them in your favorite image editor, there’s an easier way and you don’t even need Photoshop. The only thing you need is a few seconds of your […]
Virtue, a Desktop Manager fork, was a very popular virtual desktop manager for Panther (OS X 10.3), but sadly the app has never seen a version able to run on Tiger (OS X 10.4) … till now. Thanks to Tony Arnold, Virtue can now ride the Tiger. The port isn’t complete, but at least usable […]
Most text editors out there are made for programmers, for business texts or for personal letters. If you’re a creative writer, the words and the order of those words is much more important than the style of them or on which line they are. While it’s possible to use any text editor out there to […]
I’m really lazy when it comes to files on my desktop. Normally I just let the desktop fill up with files till all of my three screens are full of them; often I even let them stack before I take action. Somehow I just don’t see cleaning up my desktop as productive work and so […]
Wikis are cool. However, if you want to setup a wiki on your own machine, for example for your companies internal network, then you already need a lot of knowledge of how to setup a web server and how to install the wiki web application on it. That’s not that much of a problem for […]
If you’re a professional photographer and a Mac user that makes hundreds of digital shots each day, than I’m sure you’re as exited as me about yesterdays Media Event. Not only did Apple reduce the price of the beautiful Cinema displays, showed a quad G5 that is nearly two times as fast as the previously […]
Beta versions of the Firefox based social web browser Flock are finally out in the wild and it has now become much clearer what Flock exactly is. The browser has currently following web services integrated: del.icio.us, Flickr and a few different blogging systems. Here’s a first impressions round up:
Flying with the Flock by Solution Watch:
Flock […]
There are currently some rumors making the round about a Photoshop “killer” to be released at the next Apple show tomorrow. While I did a Google search to find out more, I’ve accidentally discovered a nice application that at least beats Photoshop at simulating paint on canvas.
The name of the app is ArtRage. The app […]
I personally love generative art, I really do. Now I’m not like everyone else, so much is for sure, but even if you normally don’t like generative art, have a look at Turtledove Kingdom, a generative art screensaver (shareware) and definitely one of the most relaxing and beautiful of it’s kind. I wouldn’t be able […]
Yesterday at the “one more thing” show, Apple revealed a bunch of new products, one of them was iTunes 6 with added support for video. However, if you have a lot of the popular .avi movies (DivX) on your disk, iTunes 6 will not let you manage them as the video support is limited to […]
Ever wondered where all your diskspace has gone? I do this at least once per week. Thx to Disk Inventory X I finally found the answer to this question and was able to get rid of a whopping 12GB. Normally if you need to make fresh space on your disk, you first delete things like […]
Do you have songs in your iTunes library with wrong song tags? Whole albums of wrong tagged songs maybe? Than I’m sure you know how troublesome it is to manually fix them. Wouldn’t it be cool to have an app to make this task easier? There actually is one. The application comes by the name […]
By default Mac OS X gives all processes an equal priority, doesn’t matter if it’s the frontmost (active) application or one in the background. Normally if you don’t have to run a CPU intensive application in the background, like a web server for example, this default setting isn’t exactly optimal; it would be better if […]
How old is your last backup? Is it bootable? How easy was it to create the backup? If your answers to these questions are something like “Can’t remember the exact date”, “Nah, just my home directory” and “Guess why I didn’t backup for so long”, than you really should have a look at this application!
SuperDuper […]
I’m sure you’ve already noticed the “Recently Played Songs” list on the right side of this blog (in case you not only read the RSS feed). Here’s how you can achieve the same if you run a WordPress based blog. You need three things:
1. Download and install the Audioscrobbler Plugin. This iTunes plugin and menubar […]
Everyone that designs websites should know them by now, cascading style sheets (CSS). Even I switched to them after nearly eight years of table based layouts and I’m sure a lot of the younger devs never knew anything else. If you’re still using tables, it’s really about time to make the switch. A good start […]
Pixel Art is an art form mostly used in classic 2D video games, cell phone games and many web projects. Here are some examples: MrWong’s Soup’Partments, eboy, pixelfreak.com, pixeltees. If you want to learn the basics of pixel art creation, have a look at this great guide to pixel art, it isn’t that hard, just […]
My PowerBook G4 is now 16 months old and the battery in it had to go through exactly 500 load cycles. Now I’m not guessing, that’s the exact number and no, I didn’t count them manually, of course OS X did that for me. There’s an application called coconutBattery that uses Apple’s CoreData technology to […]
Britta Gustafson loves menubar items, she loves them so much, that she made a list that contains most of them, she even made a menubar tutorial. Nice. Here are some of them that caught my eyes:
HimmelBar: Launch applications, organized by folder.
iSnip: Organize and access commonly-used text snippets.
Jumpcut: Save and access your clipboard history.
DeskShade: Manage your […]
Not too long ago, Opera celebrated their 10th birthday and made the ad banner free version of their popular web browser available for everyone, just for that one day. Just for that day? No, look what Opera Software just announced:
Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera’s growth, due […]
1945 Vannevar Bush published an article in “The Atlantic Monthly” called “As We May Think”. The article described a human memory extender with the name “Memex“. The article was not only the idea giver for “Hypertext” and the web-links we all know and love, it was the inspiration for much more, for example the OS […]
I just wasn’t happy anymore with the official BitTorrent client, so I had a look at some alternatives today. What I was searching was a client that works more efficient, one where you’re still able to surf the web without to many slowdowns and one that didn’t suck CPU cycles like there’s no tomorrow while […]
To gain maximum knowledge of the network world, go for some online courses like N10-003 and SY0-101. You will easily be able to play with the wireless cable concept. It will not be hard to install a computer software without any instructions. Not only this, you will also be able to work on a remote pc software. Sounds too good? Bet it is!
