// Archive

• MBP Laser Etching - Monday, May 28, 2007 11:50 - 0 Comments
  [via Flickr user ldandersen] Also: related video of Leah Culver getting her MacBook Pro laser-etched.
• Switcher's Tip: Quickly Access Menus - Monday, May 28, 2007 5:34 - 0 Comments
  Recent switchers know that on a PC, if you press the alt key, it automatically highlights the first menu allowing you to access sub-menu items quickly and easily. Mac OS X does the same thing. Simply press control + F2 (laptops press function + control + F2) to highlight the Apple menu. [...]
• Aperture rating strategy - Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:43 - 0 Comments
  Three Stars Is Enough After reading Bagelturf - Five Star Rating Is Overrated, I've decided to begin reducing my Aperture rating system to three stars (with of course rejected and 0-star), for a total of 5. Here are the rating buckets that I now use: X - Junk - Throw it in the trash 0 - Archive - [...]
• Apple spoof on iRack / iRan - Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:11 - 0 Comments
  Apple spoof on iRack / iRan.
• UPDATE: Apple UK store down - Monday, March 12, 2007 18:51 - 0 Comments
  And less than an hour later, wiped clean of any references to 8-core machines.
• 8-core Mac Pro due out soon? - Monday, March 12, 2007 18:26 - 1 Comment
  Apparently yes, according to Mac Rumors, who found Apple's UK Store offering a small slip which may indicate that 8-Core Mac Pros are coming soon. When searching for "Mac" in the UK Apple Store, the listing for the Mac Pro is: Mac Pro Now quad-core or 8-core processing power. Configure yours today. Rumors that Apple would incorporate two of [...]
• VirtueDesktops - The end is now - Monday, March 12, 2007 10:23 - 1 Comment
  Tony Arnold - the guy behind the most popular virtual desktop manager for the OS X / Mac platform has announced that he has halted development on VirtueDesktops. I plan to test You Control: Desktops as a replacement, which supports dragging windows from one desktop to another. I've been sitting on a fairly big decision [...]
• Manage video archives with iTunes 7 - Friday, February 16, 2007 11:58 - 3 Comments
  Yesterday, I found a quick iTunes tip explaining how to set custom Album Art. In this post, Derek makes reference to something I'd been weighing in my mind lately but never did any followup on: The pro's and con's of taking time to convert my entire video archive to MP4 in efforts of finally [...]
• Transmit FTP Updated - Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:17 - 0 Comments
  My favorite OS X FTP application, Transmit, has just released a new version to combat a large vulnerability, fixing the “exploitable heap-based buffer overflow condition“. Sounds painful. Grab the update from Panic's site. [via Stammy]