Archive:January, 2009

Desktoptopia – Background Manager for Mac and PC

 

When I’ve seen people use programs that randomly display images from the internet as their desktop background in the past, I’ve been very displeased with the results. The images are usually very strange or too specific to one category and just doesn’t fit my taste. And with Windows, software like that tends to [...]

Layers: Screen Forensics

 

A pretty powerful screenshot editor has just appeared on the scene, called Layers. Layers takes a drastically different approach to other screenshot managers, such as Realmac Software’s Little Snapper, by creating layered images instead of just one jpeg or png.
With Layers, you can create a Photoshop PSD file and then go in and manage [...]

Interview with Things Developer

 

MacApper has an interview with the lead developer from Cultured Code, Jürgen Schweizer.  
The interview provides a little insight into the design process behind Things, starting your own company, and developing Mac software.  I especially found it interesting that Jürgen was a teacher and researcher in mathematics for several years, before coming back to the Mac [...]

Things Review

 

I’ve been using Things from Cultured Code for about 2 months now, and can’t imagine getting a thing done without it.  Things was a very natural, yet amazingly useful step in getting more out of my Mac.
There seems to be a flood of GTD (getting things done) applications available for the Mac lately.  There is [...]

TV Shows 1.0 Coming Soon

 

Error on my part: the teaser page has been online for several months now according to readers and I just missed that. There is no talk of a new version of TV Shows, let alone a 1.0 version.
TV Shows in one of those Mac applications that I use all the time, and make my [...]

Obama in Office

 

For supporters and non-supporters alike, the full text of Obama’s Inaugural Speech is available online. I highly recommend reading it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/inauguration_obama_text

Jobs Leaves Apple

 

The title says quite a lot. I feel like this should be the only item on the blog, because of its importance, however real it may be.
Jobs wrote an email to the team at Apple, and since then has been published in the PR section. It reads:
Team,
I am sure all of you saw [...]

Styled Error Pages

 

I have a list of site updates and features that would take me forever to complete.  But just to roll out the next item on my list, if you ever run across an error on the site, at least the page will be styled to fit in with the site, as it should.  Here’s a [...]

Coffee House Goes Live

 

Espresso is an amazing up coming Mac application that will streamline web development and design. From MacRabbit software, the creators of CSSEdit and DeskShade, comes this very promising tool.
Espresso brings a lot of flexibility to the table, and the developers are working hard at getting this core functionality working in the now open beta. [...]

iPhoto 09

 

I have to say that I’m in utter amazement at the feature set demoed for iPhoto 09. The work that went into this product is evident, with a polished interface and solid goals.
Faces
iPhoto has been given facial recognition as a feature called “Faces”. iPhoto automatically recognizes people in your photos and [...]