Stuck in a Time Warp?

I was searching for the current time in the US earlier today and came across the Official U.S. Time Clock (screenshot below).  I couldn’t help but chuckle at the fact that the design for the official US Clock Website is so clearly stuck in the 1990s.  What use is a clock that’s behind the times?

I [...]

Essential Free OSX Utilities

There are hundreds of utilities out there for OSX. Some are useful, some are not. Some are free, some are expensive. This is a list of four absolutely essential FREE OSX utilities.

The Best Bundle of Mac Software? Maybe.

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of weeks, I thought I’d point out that Mac Heist have their second bundle of Mac Apps for sale.  At the moment there are 11 apps up for grabs for $49, thats about £25.  Currently, the bundle contains 1password, CoverSutra, Cha-Ching, iStopMotion, Awaken, [...]

App Zapper – Review and Competition

Apple says that if you want to install an application in OSX, all you have to do is drag it to the Trash.  While this will prevent you from using the App anymore, it leaves all sorts of files behind.  Preferences, temp files, plugins, you name it.
This is where App Zapper comes in.  App Zapper [...]

Going with Full RSS Feeds

I’ve decided to use Full Post RSS and email feeds on this blog. So if you subscribe, you’ll now be getting the entire post delivered direct to you. Find out my reasons for going “Full Feed”.

How Can Apple Continually Upstage an Entire Industry?

Apple always appear to create huge amounts of buzz without really trying. So what tactics do they use? And how have they managed to upstage an entire industry two years in a row?

Google Docs: The Best Way to Post to WordPress?

Ever since I started using WordPress, my writing has been done almost exclusively in the WordPress editor. Sometimes manually coding the HTML, sometimes using the rich text editor, always wondering if there was a better way. So for quite a while I experimented with various offline and online editors, but none of them [...]

The Future Apple Home

One of the key selling points of the Apple Lifestyle is the tight integration between their products and the “Just Works” philosophy. So where will this take us Apple users in the future? What can we expect Cupertino to be cooking up in secret?

Two Tips for Easily Finding and Processing Images for your Blog Posts

Using photos in blog posts can give off a professional air. Using the tips in this post you can streamline your workflow for finding and processing image for use in your blog posts.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Software Updates

Software updates are unique. They keep your products up to date and often provide new features for free. Something that doesn’t happen with any other products. But it’s not always that simple, and software updates often bring problems of their own.

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