January 13, 2005
A pleasant and impressive trip through Apple's iMac G5 support site to eject an uncooperative CD from the slot-loading drive.
September 21, 2004
Testing the beta of the MarsEdit Weblog editor for Mac OS X.
September 18, 2004
Adding more memory to the iMac G5.
September 15, 2004
Feelings about my new iMac G5, a few hours after its arrival.
July 06, 2004
Looking at the WWDC conference session descriptions to glean more information on the guts of Mac OS X 10.4.
March 23, 2004
Quick thoughts and memories of HyperCard, and missed opportunities, now that HyperCard seems to be officially dead.
February 20, 2004
A terrific feature of Mac OS X - the ability to instantly hide all other applications and clean your screen with a single common key chord. Beats virtual desktops any day.
February 03, 2004
With the release of OmniWeb 5 (beta) and Safari 1.2, Mac OS X is becoming an excellent web browsing playground. OmniWeb 5 especially brings some unique new features to the browsing experience.
January 20, 2004
Command-Tab in Panther is soooo nice.
January 06, 2004
January 02, 2004
The OmniGroup posts a preview of OmniWeb 5. Now that OmniWeb uses Apple's WebCore HTML engine, the OmniGroup can focus entirely on the interface and on improving the browsing experience.
December 30, 2003
A really nice feature of iTunes, particularly in Mac OS X, is that if you had a multi-button mouse...
December 05, 2003
Safari is painfully slow loading HTTPS pages. But OmniWeb and Firebird on the same machine zip through them, and OmniWeb uses the same HTML kit.
November 21, 2003
Another strange trend starts to grow between users of Apple's digital music products.
November 01, 2003
Reading some O'Reilly Mac OS X conference coverage uncovers a couple of extra little Panther tips, including an auto-completion feature in all Cocoa text widgets.
October 25, 2003
Dave Hyatt posts a list of what's new in Safari 1.1, which is included in Panther. Will these fixes find their way back to Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2)?
October 23, 2003
A concept video from Apple's past reminds me of some other cool technologies and concepts that have fallen into the cracks.
October 22, 2003
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in...There's another Apple item I need to purchase soon - the new iBook G4.
A glitch with an order placed at the online Apple Store has been addressed; items should arrive soon.
October 21, 2003
Microsoft wants you to have a digital music choice - so long as it's Windows Media and, um, on Windows. But Windows Users obviously demand choice!
October 20, 2003
A new feature in NoteTaker 1.6 reminds me of Apple's first foray into web browsers - the OpenDoc based CyberDog.
Remembering another cool forgotten classic Mac OS technology that could actually guide you through using a graphic user interface.
October 17, 2003
It doesn't play them, but it has an icon for them. Digging through the iTunes 4.1 (Mac OS X) package contents, I find a windows media audio icon resource. Hmmm.
October 16, 2003
Wondering how Panther will ship to arrive on the 24th and what iPod accessories might show up tomorrow. Also, the magazine situation seems to be settling. Now if I only had time to read them...
October 05, 2003
A highly technical Apple ad? A high fashion Intel ad? What's going on here?
September 16, 2003
One of the primary stumbling points in my search for a personal note management system that I can carry...
September 15, 2003
A look at a couple of note management options for Mac OS X, VoodooPad and NoteTaker, as potential note management systems that go beyond basic outlines.
August 18, 2003
Mac.Ars is back with another great issue. The August 18th edition discusses Apple's focus, and whether it might hurt...
August 13, 2003
Remembering Radio's "instant outliner" feature, and looking at Mac OS X collaborative editors, I dream of a future OmniOutliner that combines it all together.
July 29, 2003
Ars Technica has started a new Mac.Ars column. Ars has run many excellent Mac and Mac related articles in...
June 23, 2003
Quick thoughts on Apple's Panther unveiling. I like the new iDisk features. I'm still uncertain about the new Finder...
June 20, 2003
Last Night, Apple "accidentally" published specs for new G5 systems. Marketing ploy or random act of misplaced information?
June 05, 2003
So I now have a new 15GB iPod. So far, so good. iTunes is filling it up right now....
My iPod may not be dead, but the description can be revised to "1.6 Gig Model". That's about how...
June 03, 2003
My iPod (one of the originals - those very first 5 gig models) appears to be quite sick. It's...
May 15, 2003
All of a sudden, Mac OS X has looked more beautiful than ever. I don't know if Apple's made...
April 15, 2003
I'm pretty excited that the great Mac OS X diagramming tool OmniGraffle 3.0 is out. I've covered OmniGraffle before...
March 31, 2003
I just noticed the release of Hydra 1.0. Hydra is a developer focused text editor. What makes it interesting...
March 27, 2003
Some crazy Apple rumors (having nothing to do with Crazy Apple Rumors) have been floating around about why Apple...
March 18, 2003
I remember the day the iMac launched. Apple's web site, except for the Support section, was replaced with a...
I just finished reading "Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders" by Jim Carlton. As I...
March 09, 2003
As my recent long winded posts have already proven, I've fallen in love with the Lisa Office System. I'm...
This Applecare document may fix the battery problem I (and others) have run into with iBooks and PowerBooks. Apparently the...
March 08, 2003
I had looked for this page a while back and finally found it again: Lisa GUI Prototypes shows the story...
A look back at the Lisa Office System challenges the conventions (and some would say "cruft") of modern user interfaces, and also reveals a stunning similarity to OpenDoc. What might things be like if the Lisa could have been produced for the price of the Macintosh?
March 07, 2003
Well this should be a good day form Mac browsing. There's a leaked v64 build of Safari (which includes tabbed...
March 06, 2003
For the first time in a long time, I'm actually reading a book. It's not that I watch too much...
Dave Hyatt, contributor to many web browsers and now developer for Apple's Safari browser, posts an excellent read about tabbed browsing, and the virtues and problems with current implementations.
February 21, 2003
Writing about XDocs (err, InfoPath), Jon Udell says: 10. It represents a paradigm shift. I try to avoid the "P"...
Evaluating the Spring alternate desktop for Mac OS X, and wondering what might happen if we ever do move beyond the folder/file paradigm.
February 07, 2003
John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes up some issues with the Safari User Interface. I have a couple of counterpoints...
January 27, 2003
While I haven't had time to really try this out yet, this little piece of software known as Jeep Safari...
January 26, 2003
According to this search, SimCity 4 is targeted to come to the Mac! I have actually been considering getting a...
January 12, 2003
One thing that Apple's new Safari web browser gets right is that it provides easy access to pop-up blocking. There...
January 11, 2003
Dave Hyatt had a terrific post in his weblog today going into further details about the choice of KHTML over...
January 09, 2003
I'm generally liking Apple's new Safari web browser. I think it will actually open up some interesting competition in the...
January 07, 2003
Good MacWorld. A curious non-announcement - Apple's X11 for Mac OS X public beta. I love that new 12" PowerBook....
December 02, 2002
For as long as it's been possible, I've had my Mac OS X dock placed on the right side...