Project 365

I’ve been wanting to do a project 365 (taking a photo every day) for the past few years, but I just couldn’t follow though. I just never had my camera with me at all times, and I wouldn’t even get through January. There was also the issue of trying to take a great photo every …

Must-Have iPad Apps

Every iPad owner has their own list of “must have” apps — any such list is purely individual and none is perfect (except for the list’s creator). But since a few of my friends have new iPads, rather than email my recommended apps, I’ll just list them here: Reeder I recently wrote a post on …

iPad + Airplay

The best new feature in the new iOS 4.2 update has to be Airplay. I don’t have Apple TV (so I can’t stream video) but we do have an Airport Express hooked up to our receiver. It was (and is) great for playing iTunes through the house, but with Airplay we can now play almost …

Help Menu Search as Shortcut Button

Great shortcut tip via Daring Fireball for finding menu items on your Mac: use shift+command+/ to get the help menu, then just start typing the name of the menu item you want.

Apple Good, Yankees Bad

Behind the Mac nerdery I enjoy on Daring Fireball is a typical Yankee fan: cocky and annoying. Update: Greg Knauss created a helpful Grease Monkey script to “fix” Daring Fireball this time of year: Damned Fireball.

New iPod Shuffle

Good thing Apple released a new, smaller iPod Shuffle, because that last version was a behemoth…

Drunk Jeff Goldblum

Hilarious: slow down an old Apple ad with Jeff Goldblum, and he sounds drunk as hell: And if you like Jeff, be sure to check out the Jeff GoldBluMan Group…

Mac OS X Web Color Picker

This is more of a note to self: Hex Color Picker is a useful tool that adds a web color picker to the Mac’s built-in color pickers. The best feature is the magnifying glass which lets you choose any color on the screen to get the hex value (very useful to find the color on …

Apple switches to Intel

Announced earlier this week, Apple is switching from IBM PowerPC chips to Intel chips. Todd Dominey points out: The best part about the Intel deal is that the whole silly megahertz war will finally be over. For all intents and purposes, Apple and the whole PC hardware industry will share nearly identical components. Even if …