If they had cards, I’d be a card carrying Trekkie. Kirk and Spock were my childhood action heroes (no G.I. Joe for me). I loved the Star Trek ladies in short skirts and heels. And I always felt bad for the Federation guy wearing the red shirt (mostly the mark of sure death). What I … Continue Reading »

The Mincey household is about to add a new member. Daughter number one is expecting in the middle of 2012. Besides all the cute clothes and toys, Jeffrey and I began to look at apps for babies and mothers-to-be. We’re an OCD infested family so it only seems natural that we look for apps that … Continue Reading »

One of the better features of Apple’s early online efforts was iCards. Think of it as email postcards with a wide variety of cards for every occasion. iCards was great in its day. Fast. Easy. Free. iCards is no more. Apple kinda sorta brought it back with the Cards app for the iPhone, but it … Continue Reading »

Based on my first night with iOS 5 on my iPhone, reminders are all the rage in cheap apps. Cheap. As in free. Apple gives you Reminders in iOS 5. And reminder-like apps abound for Mac users; many also free. Why are these apps so popular? It’s one thing to have a to-do list, but … Continue Reading »

Do you know what’s in your iPhone? Sure, there’s music, and photos, and movie clips, and apps; lots of apps. But what’s really inside your iPhone? Your Mac knows. If you have the right app. Jeffrey answered one of my questions about my iPhone by giving me a Mac app he uses to connect his … Continue Reading »

It didn’t take long for digital cameras to dominate the world of film photography. We last bought film about six or eight years ago. Printing photos? That’s becoming a thing of the past, too. Printing requires ink. Ink requires money. Sending digital photos via email or posting online to Flickr or Facebook requires a click. … Continue Reading »

Well, there is something new under the sun. Well, it’s new to the Mac. Someone decided that the iPhone and iPad’s method of copy and paste would look good on a Mac. That’s what PopClip is. It’s the iOS version of copy and paste for your Mac. The way it works is similar, too. On … Continue Reading »

That’s a good question. How much time do you devote to Mac apps? Which ones get the most time? Which web sites do you browse the most? Which apps help you get the most done? How much time do you spend on Twitter or Facebook or games? An even better question is, do you even … Continue Reading »

If you spend more than an hour a day online, then I have some advice you can use. Three words. Rather, three letters. R-S-S. I can’t think of a better Mac app to save you time each day. Think about it. How much time do you spend each day simply browsing from one web site … Continue Reading »

The Mac App Store is quickly becoming like the iPhone App Store. More apps. Less money. While Android and Amazon and the Cloud People want us to run all our apps in a browser and store data in the cloud, Apple’s Mac developers keep churning out the apps. Sketch The Night Away I love to … Continue Reading »

Just when I find a Mac app that does Facebook the way I like, Facebook becomes totally 1999. It’s a yesteryear social phenomenon. The only problem is that everyone we know is on Facebook; friends, family, fellow employees. And almost nobody we know is using Google +. Maybe Google needs a few apps like the … Continue Reading »

My husband says I’m using my Mac wrong. Why? How? I type. I click. I take care not to break things. What could I be doing wrong that requires husbandly correction (for which he’ll pay handsomely if he pushes his luck too far)? The Magic Of Mac Function Keys Sorry, my husband is the family … Continue Reading »