2005 March

In the past, when you thought about WYSIWYG Website Design programs for the Mac, you thought about Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, or Adobe’s GoLive. These programs are behemoths and will cost you dearly ($399 MSRP). Softpress has a player of their own now with Freeway Pro 3.5. They are offering an Express version for $99 MSRP, and […]

DVForge, known to Mac lovers the world ’round for such products as the SightFlex, MacMice, and the Ball, has cancelled its contest in which it offered $25,000 to the first person who wrote a virus directed at OS X, and who could incapacitate at least two PowerMacs.

The term “hackers” can conjure images of teenager misfits, breaking into your credit card account in order to get into porn sites on the web. But these days when you talk about hackers your talking about those programmers that can make software sing. They take open source code and turn it into main-stream applications.

So what are […]

Amazon has announced a $35 rebate on all Mac OSX Tiger pre-orders. That will bring the price of Tiger down to $94.99 after rebate. Rumors are that Tiger will be released to the public in April although Apple has said the first half of 2005.

You can order from Amazon by clicking here.

What do you get when you place two stackable speakers and a stackable iPod dock on top of each other? You get the $69.99 Macally IceTune stereo speakers and charger for the iPod.
Macally IceTune is a stereo speaker and charger which is compatible with iPod Mini, iPod 20, iPod 40 and iPod Photo. A […]

While I’m on the subject of unique Mac software, does it surprise you that another of my top ten picks is also from Flying Meat? It shouldn’t because Flying Meat has what so many Mac software companies have, and that’s imagination. If VooDooPad wasn’t impressive enough for you, just take a look at FlySketch.
I cannot […]

I’ve preached the power of Mac software since switching. I feel the true power of the Mac lies in the great commercial programs, shareware, and freeware available for OSX. Everyday it seems I’m asked to name a unique program developed for the Mac. I have a list of my top ten that we’ll discuss one […]

Dave, there are a couple of people who send me email, and, consistently, their attachments don’t show up as neat “foo.doc” or “report.xls” but as the generic attachment winmail.dat. They don’t know why and I don’t know why. Worse, as a Mac user, I can’t figure out what to do with them. What’s causing these […]

I hate to use the trackpad on my TiBook. It’s slow and I always seem to double click everything with my fat fingers. Therefore, I always carried a trackball USB mouse along in the case with my Mac. Not any longer. I just found a tiny, Bluetooth enabled, portable, optical mouse from Macally called the […]

Apple has released nine new patches today, designed to patch and repair several flaws in the standard OS X operating system and programs. One of the most critical of these is the flaw which allows phishers to take advantage of browsers which support the International Domain Name standard.

You should know by now that I think external speakers for the iPod are a great idea. I love my inMotions from Altec Lansing. But what the iPod really needed was a simple, portable solution for listening to audio files on your iPod. I found the perfect solution, the Podwave from Macally.
The Podwave works on […]

If you blinked you might have missed it. Google’s labs had put up “Google X”, a Google search home page which emulated Apple’s Mac OS X look and feel, particularly with respect to the dock function. When you used the Google X interface, above the search box were cute little dock icons,

Why would anyone pay $29.95 for an online photo album? Well what if it gave you a smooth and beautiful interface, unlimited photo storage, and huge photo size limits, the ability to backup your online album, your users can download the original size photo which you uploaded and the ability to upload 100’s of photos […]

MSN for Mac OS X will soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft has announced that they will no longer be offering or supporting their MSN service for Mac OS X, effective May 31st of this year.

Allume Systems knows when it’s got a good idea. They just introduced the third volume of Mac OSX Utilities they call Ten For X. This time they give us 14 utilities in the package. I think it’s because several of the programs in the package are freeware, open source or donationware. The one thing that […]

I love my Tibook, it’s been a good friend and partner to me for the last two and a half years. But the sound it produces from it’s external speakers make me twinge. I have all this music and podcasts on my TiBook and the only way I can stand to listen to it is […]

Secunia Advisory: SA14346
Apple has acknowledged a vulnerability in Java for Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
For more information:
SA13271
NOTE: This does not affect releases prior to Java 1.4.2 on Mac OS X.

A few companies have tried to improve the iPod experience with wireless remote controls and Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO) recently joined the fray with the iDirect infrared remote. The iDirect consists of two separate parts: an infrared receiver unit that plugs into the top of the iPod and a small, five-button remote. Like many other […]

Rogue Amoeba, the software company who has brought us such innovative software as Audio Hijack and Nicecast, have done it again with Airfoil.
Airfoil, Rogue Ameoba’s newest offering, allows you to stream audio from just about any program, wirelessly, to your Airport Express wireless network hub, which in turn streams them to..well, wherever you want (your […]

You probably know that my favorite iPod accessory is the inMotion from Altec Lansing. It’s a fantastic portable sound system for the iPod. Altec Lansing has just made the best better. The inMotion IM3 takes the best features of the original and adds to them. Let me give you some details and see if you […]