Glug glug glug, hic!

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

That’s the sound of me drinking up all the Apple Kool-Aid I can get.
I’m now the proud owner of a MacBook Pro and a new iPod (since Apple is practically giving them away when you buy a computer if you’re in education - on the downside, I’m just betting that solid-state iPods are on the [...]

Test driving NetNewsWire 2.1

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Congrats to Brent Simmons on the release of NetNewsWire 2.1.
This is the first version of the popular Mac newsreader released under the NewsGator banner and includes synchronization with NewsGator’s services.
I figured since I’ve got to support the program, it would probably be a good idea to use it exclusively for awhile. I’m still a [...]

Getting Quicksilver-ish with Launchy

Friday, April 21st, 2006

One of the downsides of Launchy is that it’s only an app launcher, so if you’re used to all the power of Quicksilver, it falls short. But I had a small epiphany this morning - if an app supports command line parameters, you can get a lot more functionality out of Launchy.
Using Outlook 2003 [...]

Launchy - a cool little launcher for Windows

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

(This one is for Difranco because it’s Mac-ish)
Since I’ve been dabbling in Mac-land, I’ve been using the must-have Quicksilver as an app launcher. It does tons of other amazing stuff, but I haven’t gotten far enough into it yet.
QS is keyboard driven. Enter the keyboard shortcut to launch the interface, then type in [...]

Bringing down the price - on AppZapper

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

“The uninstaller that Apple forgot.”
macZot (a mac apps deal/blog/thing ) is trying out an interesting marketing tactic. Every blog post that links to their AppZapper offer drops the price $.05.
As a recent half-switcher, this is something I’ve considered getting. Even if I have to pay full price, it looks like it’s well worth [...]