Apple has just released an update to iPhoto, version 7.1.5 which according to the Apple website, “…improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the iPhoto printing service.” A similar update for Aperture was released about a week prior to the iPhoto 7.1.5 update.
To learn more about iPhoto and/or the iPhoto 7.1.5 update, visit the Apple information page here.
Now that Starbucks has finally begun to offer WiFi access to iPhone customers, it was only a matter of time before those iPhone customers started to look for a way to make the iPhone access work on laptop computers, such as the MacBook or MacBook Pro (this should also work for PC’s). With a little tweaking and configuration, you’ll be able to “trick” the Starbucks wifi network into thinking that your laptop is actually an iPhone.
Here’s what you’ll need to do:
As a PC convert, I was an avid Picasa user. Picasa is Google’s own photo management tool that does a great job organizing and managing files, and it also has a lot of editing options built into it. Picasa’s ability to handle and manage a large amount of images while maintaining its speed is unparalled, and I can only imaging that it would be even more impressive on the Apple OS X operating system. I have 10’s of thousands of images in my Picasa library on my PC and Picasa works without a hitch. It’s never even crashed on me… It works like software should.
Apparently a Google employee let the cat out of the bag that Picasa for the Mac will be available in late 2008. This news was originally made public back in January, and now in late October, there is still no new information regarding Picasa on the Mac. I’d just like to throw my name out there and let Google know that if they need any alpha or beta testers for Picasa for Mac, I’m whole-heartedly available.
Now that Picasa 3 has been released for Windows users, maybe the Picasa team will be able to allocate some time to releasing a version of Picasa for the Mac. Let’s just hope that it will be soon… hopefully before Christmas. In fact, that’s all I want for Christmas. Google, Picasa, please grant me this one Christmas wish. At least a beta version of Picasa for Mac. Please….
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I have slowly been learning my around my new MacBook Pro, and in doing so, I’ve been searching for software and applications that allow me to do the same tasks that I was able to accomplish on a PC. Thus far, I’ve been able to find replacements that are as good, if not better than their PC counterparts. In this series, I’m going to attempt to outline my desktop setup and my software setup that I allows me to be my most productive while blogging.
As with most of you, the blogging platform is the most important part of your blog, in my case, that platform is Wordpress. Without our blogging platform, we’d have no blogs. There are 10’s if not hundreds of blogging platforms out there, it is more or less just a matter of choosing one that you like. I’ve chosen Wordpress for two primary reasons:
Initially, my primary method of publishing posts to my blog was through the built in Wordpress web admin system, but as I became a more “seasoned blogger”, I began using local tools that would allow me to write and save posts to my local machine prior to publishing them to my blog. The first tool that I began using was on a PC, and it was offered by Microsoft - it was called Windows Live Writer. This tool was great and really introduced me to the idea of “offline blogging”. Since converting to a Mac, I’ve found a comparable software that makes offline blogging an absolute breeze. That program is called ecto and it is actually available for both Windows and OSX users.
I’m a huge fan of online documents, and love the ever-changing and ever-growing feature set of Google Docs, so it should come with no surprise that I am a big fan of Precipitate.
Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports the following services:
Precipitate works by creating files on your machine that are imported by Spotlight, then periodically checking in with the server and updating the local files to reflect any changes. Note that changes may take up to an hour to be visible in local searches.
I just read a post about the new MacBook trackpad gestures that will be implemented in Firefox 3.1, and I started to wonder if my MacBook Pro supports any gestures. I quickly found that it supports 2 finger gestures, such as vertical and horizontal scroll. However, upon trying more of the newly supported gestures, I found that I cannot use the “Pinch” gesture as with the iPhone, and I cannot use the “Rotate” gesture, and I cannot use the 3 finger swipe gesture.
So, on my old MacBook Pro, here’s what I’m looking at:
Works like a charm!
Does not seem to work on old generation MacBooks
Ever since I bought my new MacBook Pro, I’ve been reading everywhere about how useful the Quicksilver app is. Quicksilver is made by blacktree.com, and is a launcher program, but it’s effectiveness comes in its ability to be customized by dragging item into it and then specify actions within Quicksilver, such as emailing files, zipping files, sending items to people, moving or copying files or folders, etc. However, my only problem with Quicksilver right now is the fact that I can’t download it. I’ve been looking all over for it, and it has been unavailable for the past few weeks. Does anyone know where I can locate a copy for download?
Quicksilver is a unified, extensible interface that lets you easily execute commands and manipulate data across almost every applicatioin on your computer.
Quicksilver has many features and options to explore. Using Quicksilver, you can open applications, create an iCal event, play a song on iTunes, or email information from your Address Book to a friend.
The above quote is from Quicksilver.
I’m still very new to the Mac, so i was never really 100% sold on NeoOffice 2.x, I just decided to use that as my primary office software because it had further integrated with some of the internal operating features of OSX. Less than a week after I installed NeoOffice, OpenOffice.org released OpenOffice 3.0, so I decided to test it out. Needless to say, the reason that I’m writing this post is because I not only decided to check out OpenOffice 3.0, but I decided to switch and let that now be my primary office program. Have I ruled out NeoOffice? Not at all, but I’m going to stick with OpenOffice for now, at least until the September release of NeoOffice 3.0.
Some of the features that I find very useful in the new version of OpenOffice 3.0 are:
I’m sure there are many other features that I’m overlooking, but those are some of the features that I noticed at first glance.
After searching and searching for a remote desktop client that I could use on my new MacBook Pro, I came up with CoRD, which seemed to do the trick. Until I tried connecting to a Windows Server 2008 machine. Apparently there are some signatures or something that don’t line-up between CoRD and Windows Server 2008, so as of now, CoRD is unable to connect. Having not seen another remote desktop option while searching, I thought that I was just up a creek until CoRD released a new update, until today, when I randomly came across a page at Microsoft that has the Mac version of their Remote Desktop Client. Now, I don’t know why this didn’t come up in any of my original searches, but had I known about this client, I would have been using it from the start since 99.9% of the server that I need to connect to are Windows Servers.
If you’re having the same problem that I was having with CoRD, try downloading the Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.
