2006

I sit in my air conditioned office that has been struggling all day to get to that 77° mark (it’s at 80#deg; right now) as the outside scorches at 108°. Sure, those of you that live in Phoenix are use to this, but out here in California where the ocean is nice and close, [...]

Ugh, I had to use iPhoto on my wife’s Mac mini PPC today and even though it only has 996 pictures in the library, it still took nearly five minutes — yes, five! — before I could do anything with it. Granted, it’s last years model running last years version, but still, should it [...]

Playing with MacSabber has been so fun that we here at SvenOnTech lost all hope of being productive and went searching for more fun Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) applications. Boy did we find some good stuff.
We found this great widget that turns your SMS Mac into a full out level. Now [...]

The best elective class I ever took in high school was typing. I took it for two years and sure everyone made fun of me then, but hey, who was laughing the following year when all those page-heavy reports where due our freshman year at college? Ya, that’s what I thought, punk! :) [...]

If the 120 GB drive that comes with the MacBook Pro option isn’t enough storage for you, then you need to upgrade to MCE’s MobileStor. With 8MB cache, a seek time of 12 ms, rotation rate of 5400 rpm, and a transfer rate (sustained) is 44 MB/s, with bursts up to 100 MB/s, this [...]

We love the MacBook and MacBook Pros new Sudden Motion Sensor that helps prevent hard drive damage and data loss if your Mac falls off the table or from your lap from those moving quickly to prevent burns on their legs. Of course we love it for the protection, but we also love it [...]

What you’re looking at (jump here to see), if you’re running OS X Tiger with an iSight camera (or any other connected Web cam) is a live image of yourself. A simple little plug-in for QuickTime and a single line of code in a Web page and there you have it. Freaky. [...]

I found this very nifty tool called IP Scanner. Although it’s not completely free, it’s perfect for home use where you probably don’t have more than five computers. Or at least I don’t have that many computers at home!
This is a short description that I found in the read me file:
IP Broadcaster and IP Scanner [...]

Hey, so you’re a bit bummed that your snazzy MacBook looks like trailer trash worked on it and want it cleaned, now, then there’s some hope. Go into the bathroom and grab your wife’s finger nail polish. Apply it to a cloth and do some rubbing and bingo, you’re back in business. [...]

We’ve been looking for a good, cheap (okay, free), clipboard manager for the Mac and we are now jumping in glee to find that our favorite one we passed due to the $20 price tag is free! Today only.
Download iClip v3.0 for free from macZOT and you’ll have probably one of the best [...]

A reader has informed SvenOnTech that Apple’s hefty sized update (nearly 70 MB) fixes font issues seen in Firefox for some time now. Apple has not publicized the updates Firefox fix, but Hivelogic shows you side-by-side the difference. It’s there and one can see how Intel Macs showed a fainter and less crisp [...]

Mac (OS X Tiger) Only: One of the greatest things about a Mac is removing a program is fairly simply. Click the program icon and drag it to your trash can. Empty the trash can and now it’s off your drive. Right? Well, the program is, but there are other pieces [...]

Good news Apple MacBook Pro users (and those with PCs equipped with an ExpressCard slot.) Dell is rebranding the Novatel’s Merlin XV620 with its own Texas sized name. Why would I tell all y’all that Dell, a PC manufacturer, is a good thing for Macs? ‘Cause the ExpressCard its putting out for [...]

I’m not a huge fan of Entourage but use it because Apple Mail doesn’t handle Exchange very well. I do love, love, iCal and will use it to view events since Entourage will synchronize to it. Yet still, I have to use Entourage. I still live in a PC/Mac world and thus [...]

So you still have your CD cases all lying around the living room? Kinda like showing off those pretty liner notes, I guess. Huh? Well there is consequences with that my friend. What if while showing off that Beatles 65 CD your friend says, “Oh wow, I didn’t know you could [...]

Robert Scoble, aka Scobleizer, wants a MacBook Pro. By his own admission. Heck he even raised money to buy a reader a MacBook and threw in XP for the Boot Camp. The guys own brother in-law works at Apple. Do see the connections people? He’s been in Silicon Valley for a [...]

Is this the next version of OS X code named Leopard? Notice Internet Explorer there in the background? Note the scroll bar isn’t that of OS X’s Aqua but rather the block-like version of Windows. Also note the Boot Camp icon in the menu bar. One more notation, the Windows version is stated in the [...]

Address Book is a nice, compact, and quick application for your contacts. However, if you’re looking for an even faster way to quickly look up a contact from anywhere on your Mac, then hit F1… or any other key you define.
TapDex is a wonderful freeware program that will find your contacts at the press [...]

Many PC users think the Mac is void of many applications that swim plenty in the sea of Windows software. As discussed here by SvenOnTech and those of you that have left comments, truth is you can usually find a Windows equivalent version for the Mac. Yes, it’s not always the case but [...]

Baseline is stating the obvious in its latest article of warning: unpatched old software is a security hazard to your computer. Windows or Mac or Linux or any other operating system. Security updates are released for the sole reason of patching holes that open your computer to vulnerabilities. Yet many won’t update [...]