I saw the announcement come through yesterday for the “developer preview” of the new Google Quick Search Box for the Mac. I immediately downloaded it and started working with it, not fully knowing what to expect.
My initial response: wow, this could replace Quicksilver. For being a dev preview it seems quite impressive already. I did [...]
There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that I think are flat out [...]
The school that I work at has a program where every traditional undergraduate student is “given” a laptop (the cost of the computer is baked into their tuition). Following (or leading) industry trends, we have had a growing number of new students choosing Macs rather than Windows-based computers. So much so, for the [...]
If you have heard about Parallels for running a virtualized OS within Mac OS X (Intel) chances are you have heard about VMWare Fusion. Parallels has a feature called Coherence that pulls the virtualized applications out of the “boxed in” interface, and allows them to “mingle” with the OS X apps. VMWare obviously has picked [...]
If you are a Mac user, and also use the Cisco VPN client to connect to your corporate (or any other) network, have I got a treat for you. The product name is Shimo, and your VPN experience just became truly Mac-like.
The initial reason for the development of Shimo was the lousy software implementation [...]
I’ve seen some chatter about the Mac utility, Paparazzi, that captures the entire length of a webpage into an image. Great product, but limited to those of us who have chosen to “walk in the light” of Mac OS X. I was looking for something similar, but for Windows.
Enter Screengrab!. [...]
Mac OS X only — that I know of, any word to the contrary is welcome.
I was doing some Wordpress development this weekend while listening to my team on MLB Gameday Audio. While I attempted to Cmd-Tab to another application I miskeyed and hit Cmd-` (` is right above Tab on my keyboard) which [...]
In the little rant I gave on the baked-in Windows screenshot capabilities the other day I mentioned the simplicity of the baked-in Mac screenshot process. Like Windows there are multiple keystrokes to achieve the various types of screenshots.
Cmd-Shift-3 will capture the entire screen.
Cmd-Shift-4 then click-n-drag will capture a specific section of the screen.
Cmd-Shift-4 then [...]
Most people in the tech industry are familiar with the accronym LAMP (if not, follow that link). MAMP is a variation on LAMP, but for Mac.
I need to preface this post with the advice that the product I’m about to show is not for “production” type environments. The official word is:
MAMP was created [...]
Frank Ohlhorst just asked if the penguin is listening. I haven’t thought much about Linux since I made my home computer switch to Mac about a year ago, but he poses some very good ideas.
The Mac guy, the PC guy and a penguin are all standing around having a conversation. The Mac guy, of [...]