I’m still loving the MacBook and have set about having fun with Proxi, as you can see from the previous entry, but I have come across something slightly annoying. One of the triggers available for Proxi to act on is the Apple Remote although, as those of you with one may know, modern Macs can … Read this review…
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As I mentioned before (and have kept on whinging about) the main drive in my iMac popped its clogs and I had to get it replaced. As I was reinstalling everything I tried to figure out how best to prevent a possible future occurrence having the same impact and the best (i.e. easiest) solution was … Read this review…
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I’ve finally started encoding my DVDs onto my iMac so I can watch stuff in bed with the power of Front Row and AirClick and what better place to start than with my favourite films of the moment: The Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you know about codecs and other technical stuff relating to … Read this review…
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You may have read about my love for Delicious Library in the past and now I’m mildly pleased to say I can share that love. Or, to put it another way, I can export my library for you all to peruse thanks to DeliciWeb. DeliciWeb is a free app that’s easy to use – its … Read this review…
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I’m a sucker for changing the icons on my iMac – I find a set I like, install them and then get bored after about a fortnight and change them to something else. This set by David Lanham, however, has been on my desktop for at least two months. All the usual folders are catered … Read this review…
Software 0 CommentsThis is another excellent application from Panic. Your digital life has a lot of statistics: incoming mail, appointments, disk space. Stattoo “tattoos” stats right on your desktop picture: out of the way, but always handy! You drag “capsules” of information onto a dock of sorts, in any order you like. This dock can be dragged … Read this review…
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I bought Delicious Library the day it was released … whenever that was – last year I think. I tinkered with it for a bit but then got bored of manually entering all my DVDs, CDs and books. If you’re in the dark: Delicious Library is a Mac OS X application that lets you catalogue … Read this review…
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I’ve just read about CoverFlow over on The Tao of Mac. It allows you to browse your albums complete with beautiful artwork pulled from any sources it can find, whether that’s buried in your song tags, collected via Synergy, or looked up on Amazon. So, if you’re running a Mac with OS X 10.4 (it’s … Read this review…
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I may have missed a memo or post on a Mac forum or news site, but it seems to me that poor old iSync is slowly being phased out. One of the first screenshots I saw of OS X showed iSync and my thought was: “Cool!” When I first got my Mac, the only icon … Read this review…
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I don’t have much that I need to save in order to make my life worth carrying on with should my hard drive die; currently I back up about two and a half gigabytes of data to a DVD-RW once a week. There are more than a few smallish files that could do with being … Read this review…
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