After a nasty encounter with some malware installed on the server, the site is back online after a good cleaning. Thankfully the site was only offline for a few minutes, but Google and other services had marked the site as bad, so visiting anything on the www.macfanatic.net domain would show you an error page in [...]
In the olden days, right clicking on the sender of an email produced a contextual menu with the option to “Copy Address”. And that’s what it did. Then you could paste happily it an email or whatever else you were working on. Not anymore. Now, in Snow Leopard’s Mail, when you do the same thing, [...]
From the Associated Press article announcing the release of Windows 7 today: “Let’s face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone,” Ballmer said. “That’s why they’ve got 75,000 applications — they’re all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.” Has anyone tried Internet [...]
This bundle includes five Automator Actions, one for each of the popular URL shortening services. They are installed under the “Internet” action category. Actions: – Shorten URL with bit.ly – Shorten URL with j.mp – Shorten URL with is.gd – Shorten URL with su.pr – Shorten URL with tinyurl.com Features: All of the actions accept, [...]
I just launched a new site, www.matt-brewer.com for my personal freelance and presence on the web. I’d welcome any critique of the design!
The superb iPhone (and more recently Mac) Twitter client has seen a 2.0 release late this week. Version 2 adds support for multiple twitter accounts, a gorgeous UI, simple gestures for refreshing tweets, application persistence (get a call you can relaunch Tweetie 2 and it takes you back to where you were, not just the [...]
RIM (Research in Motion), the makers of the Blackberry phones, has just officially announced software support for Blackberry for Mac. This simply means that with the new Blackberry Desktop Syncing Software, you will be able to backup/restore your Blackberry from your Mac, as well as sync music from iTunes playlists, etc. Brings a very iPhone-like [...]
Adobe made a groundbreaking announcement today. Action Script 3 developers can now write applications and target the iPhone. Note that this functionality is outlined in CS5. Essentially, developers will be able to write their applications in Action Script 3 as always. However, Adobe has written a front end component for the LLVM compiler (shipping with [...]