http://www.macfanatic.net/blog All Mac, All the Time Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:26:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Web 2.0 has a distinct look and feel. Part of that is a set of gradients and reflections. I've been doing reflections in Photoshop for quite awhile now, but I'm always looking for an easier way to accomplish that. I just ran across a site that has the most elegant ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/18/creating-those-cool-reflections-in-photoshop/ The lack of HUD controls from Apple in Leopard is a hot topic. The HUD style has picked up quite a following over the last few years, and without an official release of the controls from Apple, developers have been left to their own devices to replicate that style. The community ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/17/bghud-appkit-impressive-hud-framework/ Roughly Drafted Magazine has another pristine article examining just why Snow Leopard is a major release of OS X. The analysis is exceptional, with Daniel making such observations as Throughout the development of Mac OS X, Apple has reexamined the old ways of doing things in UNIX and proposed ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/16/why-snow-leopard-is-indeed-a-major-release/ I recently took a quick look at an unreleased web development framework called Cappuccino, which makes use of the newly developed Objective-J language used to deploy the Keynote-like web application 280Slides. Seems there is another very powerful Cocoa-like framework already available, and one that Apple has shown great interest in. SproutCore ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/15/sproutcore-feature-rich-javascript-framework/ Evidently there is another 'new-generation' Mac browser being developed currently, in addition to Latitude. Read my interview with the Latitude development team. However, unlike Latitude, Mecca is being developed by the guys who make Fluid, the Mac app that lets you save web pages as individual 'apps' to click and run ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/15/mecca-another-new-browser-for-mac/ The guys from 280 North have been hard at work completing a couple very impressive tasks. First, 280Slides.com is up and running in beta. It's a simply amazing Keynote knockoff that takes web applications to an entirely new level. Seriously, if more web applications were this easy to use, more ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/14/cappuccino-objective-j-and-280slidescom/ I'm a huge Twitter fan and absolutely love Twitterific on my Mac. Craig and the guys from IconFactory have taken great pain in making the iPhone version of Twitterific even better than the desktop version, from the looks of things. [Pictures from MacWorld] Cool features such as placing a link to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/13/twitterific-for-iphone/ The WWDC 2008 keynote today saw the rebranding of the .Mac package, yet again. There are certainly some nice features being added, such as push email, contacts and calendars, revamped web interface, and storage upgrades. You can read more about the MobileMe features here. However, we should take this time to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/06/09/icard-service-ends-with-introduction-of-mobileme/ From Daring Fireball: Spaces was one of the new features in Leopard I was most excited about, but I found the actual implementation unusable. [Henry Story wrote a fine description][d] of the problems with Spaces in 10.5.0. When I linked to his critique, [I wrote]: ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/05/30/spaces-in-1053/ Just wanted to let everyone know that the site is now running on the latest version of WordPress, bringing mostly new features to the backend administration area. So far, I'm actually fairly impressed with a lot of the updates, and I'm really digging the administrative face-lift! If you find any ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/04/13/upgraded-to-wordpress-25/ I'm a huge fan of Mint, the god send of stats and site monitoring packages. My simple question is whether I should upgrade to the v2.0 release that's been out for quite awhile now? It has a few features, mainly an iPhone pepper, which I would like, but is there any ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/04/10/upgrade-to-mint-20/ I had to spend a few minutes thinking about this situation. Last month, March 2008, has been the best month for the site, since it launched over two years ago. The funny part is, I didn't really publish anything that should call for that. But, I think ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/04/04/march-site-traffic/ Today saw the official release of a new kid on the FTP block: Flow, from Extended Mac Software . Flow is exciting for a few reasons. First, it's Leopard only. This means that the interface is super slick (lickable as the developer describes it). Views are animated and everything is simply ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/04/04/flow-review-exciting-new-ftp-client/ Here's a bit of local news for all those in Knoxville, TN. The Lambda Student Union of the University of Tennessee is holding an event in Market Square, on Sunday April 6th, from 1-10pm. Women bands will perform all afternoon and evening, benefiting local charities and organizations. The event ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/04/02/rockin-womyns-music-festival-knoxville/ Just wanted to let everyone know that my favorite feature from Camino has finally come to Safari! If you double-click on empty space in the Safari tab-bar, a new tab will be created. Yes, you could use Cmd-t or use the menu item, but sometimes I'm just right ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/03/28/safari-31-tabs/ I spent some time this evening making some changes to the site that have been on my mind for awhile. With another project I'm doing, I was finally comfortable enough with MySql to tackle the blog. Now in the sidebar, are three more boxes with interesting data. First, there ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/03/13/site-updates-better-navigation/ I recently had to make the decision to either renew my year hosting contract through Bluehost, or let the blog die completely. It was a difficult decision, as the contract is expensive and I feel like the site has certainly died down over the past several months. However, the time ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/03/11/renewed-hosting/ I spent most of last evening and some of this morning sifting through the various documentation and classes for the UIKit framework distributed with the iPhone/Cocoa Touch SDK. So, for the very quick, but cool observation. You can easily create a UITextField to handle text input. The interesting part comes into ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/03/07/quick-iphone-sdk-observation/ So I have had a couple emails and some comments on this post, about finding and using the Leopard Intro video. I spent some time googling for that this evening and didn't find anything on the subject (did find where the Panther and Tiger videos were stored though), so ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/03/05/playing-leopard-intro-video-from-your-mac/ Feb 19, 12:34 PM EST Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Watch Related Video Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business Buy AP Photo Reprints Your Questions Answered Ask AP: Political Ads, E-Mail's Hyphen TOKYO (AP) -- Toshiba's decision to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/02/19/wired-news-ap-news/ I was just browsing though Obama's website and noticed how well connected he is. There is a box at the bottom right of the home page listing several ways to keep up with him, including Twitter. I think it's pretty cool that Barack is that technologically savy! Also to note, Barack ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/02/18/barack-obama-on-twitter/ I was actually in the process of editing a post discussing how happy I was with my move to NetNewsWire now that it's free and I can easily keep up with my feeds on my iPhone. However, I just came across a very promising application titled Headline.Just judging from the ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/31/headline-new-mac-rss-reader/ The new subsection of the Apple website showcases quite a few impressive video tutorials for those new to the Mac, as well as more experienced Mac users. Take a quick look around, you might learn something! Found via | AppleInsider http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/30/apple-launches-video-tutorial-site/ For everyone who has been anxiously awaiting the revised 3rd edition of the wonderful book on Cocoa Programming, the wait is over! The 3rd edition is the first release of the book since Panther and will cover all technologies released in Tiger as well as Leopard. Very exciting news indeed, ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/21/cocoa-programming-for-mac-os-x-3rd-edition/ For one of my classes this semester, I need to take on a semester long project. I have one or two ideas in mind, but I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions for an application you'd like to see brought to life on the Mac? I'm also ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/21/ideas-for-new-mac-application/ For those excitingly awaiting the release of the universe designing game from the Sims and SimCity creator, there is good news! First, the game is slated to finally be released sometime this year. And on top of that, EA has promised it will be released for Mac and PC at the ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/17/mac-version-of-spore-from-ea-games/ The MacWorld 2008 keynote has come and gone and now it's time to look back and see what was released, and more importantly sometimes, what wasn't. I'll be taking a look back at my predictions here as well to see how close I came to the mark. I might as well ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/16/looking-back-at-macworld-2008/ I don't believe that I've really ever seriously discussed automative matters on the site before, but since I made a major purchase about two months ago and bought a new car, I thought I'd share my experiences with others in the same situation. First off, I was searching for about the ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2008/01/09/nissan-versa/ Mac Fanatic wouldn't be a true Mac based site if some rumors weren't discussed now and then. So, here is a brief list of what I'd love to see at MacWorld this January. I think most of this has been rumored, but a few items may just be my own ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/12/29/what-i-want-at-macworld-2008/ I'm well aware that the blog has died down over the last several months, especially with the podcast becoming non-existent. However, I still thought it was pretty awesome when I noticed that the site has topped 100,000 hits since I put it online (or installed Mint, but we're not off ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/12/03/100000-hits/ So I have finally found about 30 minutes of free time to just have fun with XCode 3, Objective-C 2, Interface Builder 3 and the like all bundled in Leopard. I'm extremely impressed with all the improvements made to the development suite, minus one major shortcoming: HUD Controls. HUD (Heads ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/11/29/hud-controls-in-leopard/ Introducing CandyBar 3, only for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Brought to you by Panic and the Iconfactory, CandyBar 3 lets you easily and safely customize your Leopard system icons like the trash can, volumes, and even the infamous Leopard default folders, so your desktop will be uniquely yours. And ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/11/28/candybar-3-for-leopard/ So I pre-ordered my copy of Leopard from the Apple Store even though I ended up having this Friday off and will be going to a local store to hopefully grab a free Leopard t-shirt. But just wanted to say that I received a shipment notification email this morning ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/25/leopard-shipped/ iPhone Alley is reporting that a new version of iFuntastic will automate the jailbreak process. Has anyone used this application to confirm this? I'm still just using 1.0.2 with AppTapp installed and haven't had any issues. However, if I can now upgrade to 1.1.1 and still put ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/23/iphone-111-jailbreak/ Eternal Storms Software announces GimmeSomeTune 4.0, their free, lyrics and cover artwork companion to iTunes. GimmeSomeTune is an iTunes companion with a large user base. Its core features are fetching cover artwork and lyrics for the currently playing song in iTunes, a info-window that shows info on the song, a ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/23/eternal-storms-software-releases-gimmesometune-version-40/ So I was wasting a few minutes in class since Apple has posted all the new features available in Leopard on the website. I just had to post a few of the really cool ones that I haven't heard of or was just too cool to not post. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/16/300-leopard-features-the-cool-ones/ The Apple Online Store was down for service earlier this morning (according to the articles that were in my news feeds) but the store is back up online right now and in the "New to the Store" area, Leopard and Leopard Server are listed. Preorder today with free delivery ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/16/leopard-available-on-apple-store-online/ The topic of additional writers has came to mind a few times in the past. For those who aren't aware, and that seems to be most, everything that happens with this site is a direct result of my effort. However, I want the site to continue to grow ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/12/help-wanted-staff-writers-for-mac-fanatic/ I've had a hard time with RSS readers in the last few months. I switched to a larger hard drive almost two months ago and Newsfire just never made it back on my Mac. If you had asked me about six months ago, I would tell you all ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/09/vienna-news-reader/ Paris, France - September 28, 2007 - During the Apple Expo in Paris each year, MacGeneration gives awards to the best products available on our platform, and delighted to present the results of the Troph�es MacGeneration 2007. The readers of MacGeneration have elected nine products, with results and all photos related ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/09/macgeneration-awards-2007-at-apple-expo-results/ London, United Kingdom - October 2, 2007 - The Escapers is proud to announce the release of Flux 1.0.15, their XHTML/CSS Design application for Mac OS X. By embracing a Drag and Drop metaphor, users may take advantage of leading web development technologies to quickly and easily design, develop, and ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/09/the-escapers-announces-new-xhtmlcss-design-application-flux-1015/ I've had my iPhone for 3 weeks now and couldn't live without it. I love having a great phone, camera, iPod, and internet with me wherever I may go. But the iPhone has its flaws, and Apple is ignoring us. 3rd Party Applications I didn't pay much attention to the ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/10/01/the-state-of-the-iphone/ I've had my iPhone for about 3 weeks now and I talk discuss the pros/cons and overall thoughts on the phone. I also take a look at Installer.app for hacking the phone and share what's new in the v1.1.1 update released this week and what is missing from the ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/09/28/iphone-review/ Chicago, Illinois - September 26, 2007 - Yazsoft is proud to announce a big iPod Touch giveaway. From Sept 26 thru Oct 31, 2007, they will be giving away a 8GB and a 16GB iPod Touch. For the 8GB iPod Touch, no purchase required to enter. Simply click the link to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/09/27/enter-to-win-a-free-ipod-touch/ Be warned, I shall rant. I have an American Express card and have racked up some points over the last few months and thought I might actually redeem them on something in the near future. Since I purchased my iPhone, I have wanted some music videos that are in better ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/09/20/itunes-gift-card-a-joke/ One of the first things I wanted to do after syncing my new shiny iPhone was to add some custom ringtones and little did I realize how big an obstacle this was. I'm not sure how I missed this at all from all the iPhone buzz. I ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/09/10/itunes-iphone-ringtones/ Yesterday was a very surprising day in the Apple community for several reasons, not the least for the ugly new iPod Nanos. But I'm skipping ahead of myself. First off, there were tons of new products introduced that fulfilled many of the rumors circulating the event. The biggest announcement ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/09/06/ipod-touch-iphone-price-drop/ Here is the welcome video you get the first time you turn on a Mac running Leopard. Bundled with the background, found here, it seems that Apple is moving to an outer space type design. Phill Ryu talks more about the interface changes and what that means for Aqua. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/08/26/leopard-welcome-video/ I know that I haven't released a podcast in ages, but I promise I haven't been ditching the site entirely. In the time I would have been recording these last several weeks, I have instead worked on improving the aging and cluttered site, and my efforts are now online ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/08/11/new-site-theme-lots-of-ajax/ Apple released a slew of Mac-related products on August 7 and after using a few of them already, I figured I would take the time to comment on the products themselves, as well as the strategy Apple is taking. First, the 'new' iMac is new.  Sort of.  Yes, it has a ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/08/09/istuff-08-apples-product-releases/ So evidently a lot has been happening over at RealMac Software these last few weeks and I've missed out on the action.  First off, Button Builder, a pretty cool application that allows you easily create attractive buttons for your website, has gone the way of open-source and is now free.  ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/08/01/button-builder-and-more/ So I have learned a lot about using Photoshop over the last year, by making graphics for the site.  I'm by far just starting out and today I was reminded of that.  I have spent hours working on the crazy patterns used on graphics, dubbed "Rising Sun".  The idea is ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/07/31/rising-sun-brushes/ I've been working on a new homepage for the site when I've had time over the last month or more and it's finally online. Just check out http://www.macfanatic.net and leave a few comments about the design or if you have any problems with it. http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/07/25/new-homepage/ So I finally had the opportunity to play on an iPhone this past weekend, and it was an experience.  I wasn't caught up in the hype  around the iPhone until recently when Apple posted some videos online about using the phone.  After viewing those, I decided that I wanted to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/07/16/thoughts-on-the-iphone/ I, along with numerous other users out there, have complained about the lack of full-screen support in QuickTime player for years now. Especially since iTunes was updated for video support awhile back and you could watch videos in full-screen from iTunes, but not within QuickTime. You had to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/07/11/quicktime-72-adds-full-screen-support/ I went to Burger King this morning to grab a biscuit and a water, a cheap way to eat breakfast on the go, for about 2 dollars. However, it seems that Burger King is about to go bankrupt because the wonderfully cheerful voice informed me, "Are you aware that ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/07/11/burger-king-charges-for-water/ AppMarks(TM) is a new easy-to-use, free Web 2.0 program that enriches the web browsing experience on the iPhone. By providing easy access to the most used web applications, the AppMarks desktop is the ideal Safari start page for iPhone users. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 9, 2007 – Appmarks.com (www.appmarks.com) is ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/07/11/appmarks-for-iphone-released/ Jobs faced a very tough audience this past Monday as he delivered his keynote speech to over 5000 attendees at Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference. With the previous announcement of the iPhone and the delay for Leopard, everyone was wondering what Jobs would pull out of his box ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/06/13/a-look-at-leopard/ I just wanted to alert everyone that the Software Giveaway is officially over. I'm out of town for a few more days and the site itself will still be onilne, but any entries received won't be vaild. Expect an email from me by June 6 if you are a winner. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/06/01/contest-over/ Joost is a new application for Mac and PC that allows you to watch the TV programs you want, the way you want it, on your computer. With a super cool interface and instant playback, the Joost beta shows amazing potential for taking it's place as my TV solution. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/05/29/joost-review/ For those who haven't heard of the most amazing web statistical software ever created, Mint, I encourage you to stop reading this post and download it now. Your life will never be the same. I just had to throw this out there because I find myself doing it all the ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/05/20/funny-thing/ In this episode I take a look at Coda, the new integrated web development application created by Panic Software. Coda was created as an application to help web developers streamline their workflow by letting you edit and preview CSS and text files, search documenation, and manage file revisions with ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/05/12/coda-review/ In this episode I discuss three applications that will allow you to take back control of your Mac and clean house. AppZapper and CleanApp will both help remove installed applications and CleanApp takes it several steps farther by running maintenance scripts and more. OnyX is designed for maintenance ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/05/06/cleaning-up-your-mac/ RapidWeaver is a website creation and management application designed exclusively for the Mac. It has been around far longer than the current competitors, iWeb and Sandvox, and is an elegant and fun way to start a website. RapidWeaver gives you the power to blog, podcast, share photos, movies, ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/04/29/rapidweaver-35-review/ I have reviewed both of these applications in the past. However, both of these apps deserve a second look because the feature set has changed so much. In the case of Schoolhouse, the app went from being adequate to a full-fledged class management application that I cannot function ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/04/21/schoolhouse-2-and-journler-25-reviews/ SmartBackup is by far the best backup solution I've found for normal backups. The software is a lot like syncing your iPod. The first time you sync your backup, it will take awhile to put everything in the backup. However, subsequent backups take very little time and ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/04/14/smartbackup-review/ I'm not in a habit of downloading many of my TV shows using bit-torrent because it's general not as fast and a lot more pain to search for the right episode. I used Xtorrent throughout the beta period because it simplified the searching and downloading process for me. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/04/11/tvshows-makes-keeping-up-with-your-shows-easy/ It took me a good 20 minutes to run down and find this bug in my code and I honestly can't believe that it hasn't come up before now. I thought that I would share in case anyone out there is banging their head against the table like I ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/03/28/quick-cocoa-tip/ I've been away all week because of spring break and I've enjoyed a bit of sun and an amazing 3 Days Grace concert this week in sunny Charleston, SC. However, I'm taking a more lengthy leave of absence. Family trouble, relationship stuff and school have just taken there ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/03/17/personal-stuff/ If you have somehow missed all of the noise behind the iTunes and Quicktime updates this week, here is a bit of info for you. Basically, fire up Software Update or download the updates here. There is a lot of technical reasons to upgrade, but besides adding ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/03/06/itunes-71/ There are a few podcasts out there for Mac developers, but the one that I've listened to before, Cocoa Radio, was horrible. So, when I heard about a new podcast for experienced developers that wanted to learn all there is to know about Cocoa, I was pretty excited. Late Night ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/02/04/late-night-cocoa/ This application has just seen a 2.0 release and looks well for it! The company provides this basic description of Billings: Billings 2 is an easy-to-use time and expense billing application for the Mac. With Billings, you can create and send great looking invoices or estimates in less than 5 ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/02/03/billings-2-review/ I love the Joy of Tech comics and had to publish this one here because it's so good. Get more awesome comics like this one here. http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/25/buyers-guide-to-windows-vista/ Well, while this might not be a huge achievement, I still have to be proud of this one. There is a site which has tons of useful information for Mac users called Links 4 Mac. What is so cool is that Mac Fanatic is #4 in the list ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/18/site-rated-in-top-5-on-links-4-mac-website/ The contest I was holding here on the site officially came to a close at 11:59 yesterday, about an hour before this writing. The winner was Lindsey Hardegree. Congratulations Lindsey! For those that are interested in how I determined the winner, you can view the code to a simple ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/15/itunes-contest-winner-announced/ Normally I don't care too much for countdown widgets because while it is fun for a short bit, the luster soon wears off and I'm left with several of these widgets cluttering Dashboard. However, Paul from One Digital Life has created a very cool iPhone Countdown widget. I ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/11/iphone-countdown-widget/ I'm not a huge Office user myself since my switch to Mac and discovering iWork. Pages and Keynote are very clean and allow me to create beautiful content quickly and easily. However, I can't ignore the fact that the vast majority of the world operates around Microsoft Office. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/10/mac-office-2008/ Found this on YouTube today and just had to share. This was a response made after a SNL skit a couple weeks back and is hilarious. YouTube link http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/08/mac-in-your-top/ The site has been online for a year now, so to commemorate the event, I'm holding a small contest/give-away! Here are the rules: You must leave a comment on this post You must leave a first and last name, as well as a valid email address when you post the comment (so I ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/06/one-year-online-itunes-promotion/ I have been working on this application for probably close to six months now, in my spare time that I had during this last semester. This app was inspired by a few non-tecnical friends wanting an application like this, and I took up the challenge. I've learned tons ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/04/viewer-21-released/ My latest adventure left me using a NSStepper to increment and decrement a NSTextField, just making the numbers go up or down by one. I set the minValue to 1 and bound the maxValue to an array controller I have, with the appropriate data. All of this works ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2007/01/01/key-events-and-the-responder-chain-sample-code-using-arrow-keys-in-custom-nstextfield/ Schoolhouse Schoolhouse is a very nice way to keep up with all of your coursework, simply put. Features include GPA and Final grade calculators, graphing of grades, prioritizing, Classcasting to share your assignments with classmates, sending assignments to iCal and iPod, and much more. The interface is very clean ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/12/17/schoolhouse-review/ I have used Firefox as my main browser since the original 0.2 or 0.3 release, back when I was still using Windows and then my move to Linux. I thought it was the greatest browser of all time, simply put. However, after I moved over to the Mac, ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/12/13/look-at-firefox-3-rendering-updates-with-cairo-graphics-framework/ UNO is a system-wide theme for aqua. Basically the installer modifies some system files to your settings so your applications, the Finder, iTunes, and Dashboard look better. You can choose between a default aqua shade, a darker UNO shade, or a lighter unified shade. Personally I like ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/11/30/drive-in-beta-review-and-a-look-at-uno-for-aqua/ Just to share a bit about myself, I love DeLoreans. I was hooked the first time that I saw the Back to the Future movies with Doc Brown's crazy time machine made out of a DeLorean. I've read books about John Z DeLorean but never had the chance ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/11/12/back-to-the-future-models/ CSSEdit is an application that I had looked at earlier in the year when I was working heavily with some code for the site but wasn't convinced that it made a difference in my work. However, version 2 completely changes all that and is a wonderful application that every ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/11/08/cssedit-2-review/ I found this application on the net a few days ago and after using it for the last little bit, I have to share since I whole-heartedly think that we have an application that is going to take the Mac financial community by storm. Cha-Ching takes a completely different approach to ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/10/04/cha-ching-impressions/ This is a new application that is what using bittorrent technology should be like. Built-in searching and easy downloading of files makes the whole process seamless with great sense of elegance and style. Currently a free beta available for download, will be shareware once it's finished. Music ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/09/24/xtorrent-sneak-peak/ The ability to use Windows application on the new Intel Macs is a great marketing strategy and buying point for several switchers now. There are several solutions available now and I go into some detail about the latest one to hit the market by Codeweavers in this episode. Codeweavers CrossOver ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/09/02/crossover-and-boot-camp-review/ I thought that I would do something a little bit different this week and go with some tips for the Mac newbie. I briefly talk about using Disk Utility, Cache Out X, and MacJanitor, but mainly focus the episode on the merits of using Maintenance. You can download Maintenance here. http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/07/29/keeping-your-mac-healthy/ This is a great, true Mac OS X application. There are amazing transitions, effects, a wonderfully laid out and well implemented interface along with great features. Sad thing is that the Tetris company just contacted the developer (only took them a few years, no doubt) saying that they ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/07/09/quinn-review/ I was just using my Macbook and plugged my headphones in to listen to some music without disturbing others at this late hour. I noticed a funny thing however. I had the computer muted, but as soon as you plug the earbuds in, the mute goes off and the volume ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/06/24/headphones-turn-off-mute/ This is just a quick tip that I ran across today as I'm converting several videos that I have over to iPod compatible format and throwing them in iTunes to free up some disc space. The Description field is something that I thought was restricted to Podcasts. However, as I ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/06/09/adding-text-to-the-description-field-in-itunes/ There is so much info on the net about Spotlight that it isn't even funny. However, I recently ran across a problem that upsets me greatly. Basically, Spotlight stopped working for me. No matter how you used it, it would return "no results found" The little ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/06/07/misbehaving-spotlight/ In case you didn't catch the info in the podcast this last weekend, I will be out of town early tomorrow morning through the middle of next week. So, there won't be a podcast review this weekend, and most likely there won't be a video next week either. ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/05/31/vacation/ Okay, so if you've never found or heard all about the wonderful iStat Nano widget, you must stop reading right now and head on over here and download it now. It's everything you need to know about your Mac and more. There's just one problem. Half the stuff doesn't ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/05/24/cpu-temperature-on-an-intel-mac/ Might be a long name for an episode, but I look into the top 4 candidates that I found for managing a blog and compare their strengths and weaknesses. Cover the usual rumors and news, ask for feedback from listeners on the iTMS and music this week is "Save ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/05/14/ecto-journler-macjournal-and-blogthing-review/ I was at work today and a friend showed me this video from YouTube, it's the funniest thing I've seen in forever, you must watch! http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/04/26/hyperactive-lasse/ Rumors and News this past week, how to create your own stellar disk images to impress and amaze all your friends and co-workers, and impressions with using a OS X desktop manager called Virtue. Music this week is "Disappear" by Hoobastank. Download Virtue here. Download EasyDMG here. Download DMG Packager here. http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/04/16/virtue-and-custom-disk-images/ I've mentioned Nate Orloff on here once before as I liked the theme he modified for his site, and that is where I found our current theme to start my own modifications. Anyway, I have liked his site design simply because it's wonderful, and recently started looking at his ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/04/02/sixteen-years-by-nate-orloff/ This post just reminds me that there are people out there that really need those obvious warnings for product labels, like, "DON'T EAT, WILL EXPLODE". This is an excerpt below from a message board about water cooling a pc. Read the full post here.====EXCERPT====== Kramer and other members ... http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/2006/01/23/water-cooling-a-pc/