Steve Jobs gives the keynote tomorrow at Macworld 2006. Unfortunately, I can’t be there this year, so I’ll have to watch the replay. Hopefully I’ll be there next year. But just for fun, here are my predictions for Macworld 2006: 1. Calculate – the long awaited spreadsheet app that rounds out the iWork 2006 suite, …

Gus – who I met at WWDC last year – has a great post on his blog titled How to Become an Independent Programmer in just 1068 days where he explains how he’s become a full-time Mac Indie gradually over the past few years. I think it is great that the Mac community supports independent …

Mike Rundle over at Business Logs wrote Either Support Safari, Or Lose Customers: If you care about the Macintosh user base, then you should care about Safari. If you don’t care about Safari, then you’re saying you do not care about the Mac user base. It’s quite simple. … People don’t switch to Firefox because …

Congratulations to Brent and Sheila Simmons for winning an Eddy for NetNewsWire 2. He won one for NetNewsWire back in 2003 as well. NetNewsWire is one of those must-have Mac apps that I use every day. I’ve got 394 feeds and counting. I am definitely way more informed nowadays. It was just too hard to …

Apple and PayPal are having a promotion: You buy an iTunes Gift Certificate for a loved one and you get free songs for yourself. Cool! The only thing you have to do is buy it through PayPal. So if you give a $20 gift certificate, you get 10 free songs, which is like getting $9.90 …

I use MarsEdit often to post to my blog so I’m really glad that we now have a public beta release of 1.1. It’s been right about a year since MarsEdit 1.0 was released. If you’ve got a blog and a Mac (and like to try out the newest betas), go check out the MarsEdit …

I’ve been busy working on WebnoteHappy Pro as well as fixing bugs in the Lite version. But I thought I’d come up for some air to share a nice little photo I saw on TUAW. It’s of a cake in the shape of a Mac mini! I wonder if tasted as great as it looks.

If you want to see some classic Mac icons (like our beloved Moof the dogcow) blown up larger than life and planted on Apple’s Cupertino campus back in the 90s, check out Jory’s Apple Icon Garden. If you take the entire tour, you’ll be rewarded with a Quicktime VR tour at the very end which …

I’ve got an iCurve on my desk, which makes my PowerBook be at the right height for ideal ergonomic usage. Well OK, actually its a little more complicated than that, since I have my desk cranked down so my hands are perpendicular. So I actually have the iCurve BOX on top of my desk and …

Paul Graham writes in Return of the Mac: In the matter of “platforms” this tendency is even more pronounced, because novel software originates with great hackers, and they tend to write it first for whatever computer they personally use. And software sells hardware. Many if not most of the initial sales of the Apple II …