Apple's Revolution Generation
What happens when your Mac starts up? Behind the scenes, all kinds of hidden things are happening. Various secret Mac apps start up to do this or that, one by one. You can control some of them in System Preferences > System > Users & Groups > Login Items. If you want Safari or Mail … Continue Reading »
For the life of me I do not know what this functionality isn’t already built-in to my Mac. Scheduled email. It’s a very simple request. I want to schedule email messages to be sent at a specific time. That’s it. Mail doesn’t do it. The benefit should be obvious. I can create or respond to … Continue Reading »
Writers and programmers are similar. They both sling words all day, slaving over a hot keyboard to get just the write code-cum-phrases stacked together. That means both my wife and I are banging on a keyboard each day, often into the wee hours of the night. One of the differences is that what I write, … Continue Reading »
If Mac OS X Lion is worth $30 and can be downloaded from the Mac App Store and installed within minutes on your Mac, how much is an app launcher app worth that also launches web sites and files? Notice the trend in the Mac App Store. It’s toward lower priced apps. Developers supposedly make … Continue Reading »
What’s the killer app of the 21st century? It used to be email. Then the browser. Maybe the killer app for the 21st century will be iCloud. At some point in the future everything we use on our Macs or iPads or iPhones will be stored in the cloud. Back here on earth we still … Continue Reading »
Men graze. It’s in our nature. It’s genetic. It’s the way God made us. We tinker about. We surf through more television channels in an hour than women have fingers. We can actively watch a sit com, a drama, a re-run, and CNN all at the same time; using the remote to bounce swiftly between … Continue Reading »
Yes, backing up your Mac is important. The real question is, What’s the best way to backup a Mac? Actually, the answer is easy. Get another hard disk drive, attach it to your Mac, and use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to clone everything on your Mac. Now you have a backup. What happens if … Continue Reading »
One trick ponies are rare in the software world. It seems that no Mac app is truly complete until it does email. What does it say about an app that does basically one thing, does it well, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? It’s even better if said app is free. That’s Graph. … Continue Reading »
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