I had dreamed that this day would come 3 years ago in my iMac 24″ = Mac Semi-Pro post. I think we now have a true Mac Semi-Pro. I’ve been working for the past few years on a 20″ iMac (white) paired with a 20″ monitor. Together, its 1680×1050 x 2, or 3360 x 1050. …

I just read a good post by Other World Computing about Not throwing out your PPC Macs, even though Snow Leopard is rumored to not support PowerPC anymore. I completely agree. Here is how I have repurposed the PowerPC Macs that I don’t use as my primary computers: 17″ PowerBook G4 1.33 Ghz – my …

I really like my Mighty Mouse. It’s elegant yet functional. However, the scroll ball hasn’t been working too well lately. My hands are sorta oily and it probably doesn’t help that I eat in front of the computer sometimes. Specifically, the down scroll doesn’t work well – it just sort of slips. You can’t disassemble …

I started noticing that my MacBook Pro’s performance was getting sluggish compared to my iMac’s performance. I was wondering if I needed a reinstall but I narrowed it down to Safari. Firefox was still working well as were my other apps. Rebooting didn’t help it. I further narrowed down the issue to Flash videos like …

Firefox 3 is in Release Candidate 1 stage. But it shouldn’t go out yet. Yes, there are improvements but I think there’s one big regression: its AppleScript is broken. There’s two pieces of data that’s critical for several apps to get from Firefox: the current URL and the current Title. The title portion is broken …

A friend and colleague of mine, Justin Williams of Second Gear, just released his first Mac app: Today. It’s a fresh new look on iCal that helps you see your events and tasks for just today. It kind of reminds me of those daily desktop paper calendar where you rip off the page each day. …

Camino 1.6 was just released yesterday. Since I’m a browser aficionado, I’ll be taking this latest release for a test drive this weekend. It seems like the Mac Browser Wars will be heating up yet again.

I just recently upgraded to the Leopard 10.5.2 update and I thought I’d share my short but sweet process on performing upgrades of OS X (aka applying or installing a system update) without regrets: 1. Wait a day or two. Sometimes updates have an issue with them ever after extensive beta testing, people report bugs, …

MacSanta is back this year! MacSanta for the uninitiated is like a big sale of Mac software from independent developers (who I like to call Mac Indies.) There’s different featured Mac software deals every day, all for 20% off, good for that one day only! Today (Friday December 7th), we’ve got Hazel from my friend …

I was driving up Interstate 95 coming back from Charlotte, NC, the site of RubyConf 2007 when I bought TaskPaper. Well actually my wife was driving while I was engaged on my MacBook Pro + EVDO. I think TaskPaper is quite a good task manager because it is simple yet still helps keep you organized. …