2005 June

Dave, I’ve read lots of news about how iTunes now supports podcasts directly, but even now that I’ve downloaded the latest version of iTunes, I can’t see how to browse podcasts and subscribe. Help?

Do you remember that English woman in the popular television show of a few years ago that would stand in front of a group of contestants and in a bitter and belittling manner look at one of the poor souls on stage and tell them “You are the weakest link! Goodbye”? Well I felt like […]

Is there some arcane magic required to get signatures to automatically appear on an account? Some of my accounts work fine; some simply refuse to auto insert the signature when I open a new message, even if I completely delete and recreate the signature. Annoyingly, it’s my main business account which it doesn’t like :-(

I started doing HTML in the late 1980’s. I knew I needed an understanding of how graphics worked with the HTML code to produce an attractive and professional looking website. There was one source that stood out for computer graphic design, online color and basic HTML implementation, Lynda Weinman. Lynda was making her living teaching, […]

When I opened up Illustrator CS2 for the first time, the normal fear of a blank canvas hit me. This time though it was a little less overwhelming. I recognized the layout of Illustrator, it looked like the layout of Photoshop. You see I’ve used Photoshop for several years, but I never took the time […]

I have a powerbook g4 titanium , 60 GB HD, 512 MB ram, 1Ghz processor. I use the program DVD Backup to put dvd’s on my desktop as TS folders. It has served me well on business trips, bored meetings, etc. I recently upgraded to Tiger and now I can not watch […]

I don’t personally own a G5 yet, but I’m one of those people who loves to have as many hard drives as they can fit into their case.
If you’re like me, but have a G5, you might consider tackling this project. Just do it carefully, as that G5 is a precious work of art.

As you can tell from an article I posted here last week, I’m a WordPress fan. I use it on several of my websites, including The Mac ReviewCast. I only wish I had the knowledge with databases to switch the PHP-Nuke site I have on Surf-Bits to WordPress. (This is where I take volunteers)
One […]

“Secunia Advisory: SA15481
Critical: Highly critical
Impact: Unknown, Security Bypass, Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS, System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
OS: Apple Macintosh OS X
Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes various vulnerabilities….

Much has been made of the recent announcement that Apple is going to start using Intel CPUs. For the most part people think that this is either pretty cool, or no big deal, depending on where you sit.

Roxio took a look at the millions and millions of iPods sold and all the accessories that have been developed for the iPods. They concluded that there were over 500 kinds of hardware devices built to work with the iPod, but very few software programs. Roxio wanted to allow users to experience their older music […]

(This is from a series I’m doing on The Mac ReviewCast)
The next software program that I’m adding to the top ten list is actually a pair of programs that are similar and have fans on both ends of the pew. The main reason for choosing these programs is because they show the imagination, ease […]

 Well I’ve been spending the last hour or two reading stories written on the web about the WWDC keynote announcement. I thought I missed something, but everyone heard what I heard and are as confused as I am. There are tons of questions left hanging, answers may be made clear in the coming weeks but […]

Update - it’s now on the Apple site: Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
In the New York Times this morning - free registration required to read the story:
“Steven P. Jobs is preparing to take an unprecedented gamble by abandoning Apple Computer’s 14-year commitment to chips developed by I.B.M. and Motorola in […]

Dave, I’d really like to learn more about how to work with the Unix operating system that’s buried in my Macintosh, now that I have Mac OS X Tiger on my G5. What do you recommend as a resource? And how easy is it to learn Unix anyway?

Last January I went to MacWorld in San Francisco. I had a great time, but that’s not the point for this article, the reason I brought it up was that like all expo goers I signed up for give-aways and drawings from the booths on the expo floor. Well I never won the car, nor […]

Class notice says company will offer store credit or cash as part of proposed settlement.
Grace Wong of CNN/Money writes:
Buyers of early generation iPods may receive $50 in store credit or cash compensation as part of a proposed class action settlement against Apple Computer, according to one of the law firms representing plaintiffs in the case.

Inventive, Inc. has announced iClip lite, a free Dashboard
widget for Mac OS X “Tiger” based on Inventive’s award winning productivity
application, iClip. iClip lite was designed in conjunction with the upcoming
Dashboard related Web site, MacWidgets.net, and
features stylish graphics and animation by the talented Mac theme artist,
Pe8er.
iClip lite is a multiple clipboard & scrapbook widget designed to […]