The power went off then right back on this morning, and it may have surged as well. I turned the eMac back on after the power came up, and “Cyclops” my 160gb external hard drive wasn’t mounted to the desktop. I turned it off and on again, rebooted the eMac again, nothing. I plugged the […]
Here’s a fun tip for Safari users that I learned by reading my new OSX book…
If you are several directories down in a site and would like to go “up” a few levels, instead of deleting text from the address bar and pressing enter, just hold Command (the Apple key) and click on the title […]
Finally, Apple and AOL have both released updated versions of iChat AV and AOL Instant Messenger 5.5, and the video conferencing features of both are compatible with each other! To my knowledge, before today the only instant messenging app that supported cross-platform video conferencing was Yahoo Messenger, and the quality was pretty bad. Besides that, no one uses Yahoo Messenger anyway, so if you wanted to video chat with a Windows user, you had to both download Yahoo Messenger for that purpose alone. Now it’ll be a whole lot easier since iChat users can video chat directly with AOL IM users. I hope the quality is as good as iChat to iChat videoconferencing, which is very very good.
I just bought the Lord of the Rings soundtrack for my wife off of the iTunes Music Store… Just had to post about how great it is! All I had to do was search for Lord of the Rings, click Buy Album, and within two minutes it had downloaded all 19 songs—an hour and nineteen […]
Word on the street is that some people are having trouble getting their gamepads to work with certain emulators on MacOSX. So I did a little searching and found GamePad Companion for OSX which allows you to map your gamepad to keyboard or mouse buttons, and even control the mouse cursor with the D-Pad on […]
MacStumbler is a program that looks for wireless access points, and gives you a lot of info about them. You can also use it in combination with a GPS device, to take the coordinates of wireless access points and map them out. This will go great with a 12” Powerbook. I’ll be able to easily […]
Fracture is a fractal screensaver for Mac OSX. It seems to have a ton of options for tweaking the fractals, and produces some pretty awesome looking stuff, judging by these screenshots. It uses anti-aliasing to produce pretty high quality images, unlike the Windows fractal screensavers I have seen in the past that look like crap. […]
If I ever get the EyeTV, this is little gizmo is a must-have I think. It’s a tiny remote control that you can use to control iTunes, EyeTV, the DVD player, etc. This way I won’t have to reach all the way across my desk to change the song or TV channel, I can just […]
The Griffin PowerMate is a very slick little knob thing that you plug into the USB port on your Mac or PC to control things on your computer. It can be rotated, pushed to “click” and also “click and turned” to do various things in various programs. The obvious thing is to control the volume […]
After Default Folder X, Typeit4me will probably save me the most time in my daily routine. We have like 4 different email addresses at work, so I can just make a shortcut for each signature to send out with messages. Plus saving URL’s and commonly typed words for our plaques and trophies and such. Very […]