Apple's Revolution Generation
Apple has this crazy thing going on with customers. They make it crazy silly easy to buy stuff we like, and we spend money on Apple’s stores to buy stuff we like. I’m on the Mac App Store right now looking for an app that will prevent the Mac App Store from launching more than … Continue Reading »
First it was heat waves, then earthquakes, then storms, then Steve Jobs resigns, then a hurricane; natural disasters all. Now I notice that Adobe’s Flash Player actually works better on my Mac than a year ago. Are these not sure signs of an apocalypse, a world wide catastrophe of epic proportions? What’s next? Free Kindles? … Continue Reading »
Love them or hate them, the Mac is loaded with pop up dialog boxes. Most of the time we see them in Open and Save. To be honest, there isn’t much dialog going on here. The Finder’s Sidebar helps us to navigate our Mac’s files and folders, either to find a file to open, or … Continue Reading »
If you’re like me, you have a Mac loaded with many thousands of photos in iPhoto. It’s easy to make photo albums, share photos with friends, make screen savers, even enhance photos just using iPhoto. It even does movies, but nothing like those from this Mac app. All this praise is wrapped up into a … Continue Reading »
Is your Mac cluttered with apps you seldom use? Take screen savers. Please. A dozen screen savers of every design grace my Mac innards. It’s not a pretty sight. Did you know that screen savers don’t save anything, including the screen? Plain old black is better. Turning the screen off is better still. Why do … Continue Reading »
To paraphrase the theme song from a popular movie of the last century, If there’s something strange going on in your Mac, who you gonna call? Unless you’ve been hiding in a non-internet equipped closet for the past year, you’ve seen many, many MacKeeper ads on Mac-oriented web sites. If MacKeeper is so good, why … Continue Reading »
A quick search on MacUpdate the other day revealed a dozen Mac password managers. Some are free. Some are cross platform. Many are apps that store and manage more than login IDs and passwords. And most have some kind of encryption for security. Which Mac password manager do I use and why? First, let me … Continue Reading »
Mr. Mincey and I have a problem with the family Mac. He’s messy. I’m not. When he’s done with a session of using the family room Mac, I get to sit down to a screen with a dozen open apps, with a couple of dozen open windows, and they’re scattered all over the Mac’s screen. … Continue Reading »
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