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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
What goes up comes down, and sometimes goes back up again.
 With all the public noise about the new 3G iPhones and the MacBook Air, we forgot about Apple's stock price. Just a year ago, Apple's stock was considered the Wall Street darling. A month ago, following January to March declines, Apple's stock was the crap stock of 2008. Now what?
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New steps to keep important data safe, handy, and secure.
 Do you have passwords or credit card information stored on Stickies in Mac OS X? Me, too. Well, I did. Stickies are handy though anything but safe. Once you get too much info and the sticky grows, it's not even handy anymore. Is there a better solution?
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From Dilbert to Calvin & Hobbes, daily comics are a Widget away.
 From Dilbert to Calvin & Hobbes to Doonesbury I need a daily fix of comics. The problem is that I no longer subscribe to the daily newspaper, and sometimes forget to buy a Sunday paper. Where do I get my daily comics? From a Widget.
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Everybody wants to be a writer, so you need plenty of free writing tools.
 Word processors are like pantyhose. Everyone has a favorite brand. From Microsoft's gargantuan Word monstrosity, to Apple's anemic but well-priced TextEdit, there's a word processor out there with your name on it. Provided your name is Bean.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Top 5 Famous Freebies to play, work, browse, and track money on a Mac.
 As the Mac gains market share and popularity among former Windows PC users, it becomes more difficult to find good freeware utilities and tools. Mac software developers smell the money. Here's today's Top 5 Friday Freebies.
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Let your Mac's keyboard do all the daily dirty work with keyboard macros.
 Yes, your Mac is a pleasure to use, but it can be much more efficient and productive with the right utility. Enter QuicKeys. Long the best macro tool for OS X, QuicKeys is ready to automate certain tasks to make your Mac life easier.
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Weather forecasts, radar, and current conditions are as fast as instant.
 The Miller family lives in the Midwest. We always have, and always will. What? You don't like Midwest weather? Just wait 10 minutes it will change. These days, I track weather instantly on my Mac. Here's how.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Manage money the old fashioned way. Put your checkbook into a Mac.
 If you're like me then you already know about the monthly money curse. There's always too much month left at the end of my money. Can't there be a better way to manage my money than with a checkbook? Yes, and no.
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The rumor mill buzzed. Will Apple go back to the PowerPC chip?
 Apple has agreed to part with $278-million to buy P.A. Semi, a microprocessor design company. What do they design? Computer chips. What kind? PowerPC chips, the same family that Apple ditched two years ago to switch to Intel inside.
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AppFresh makes software updates easy, simple, and free. For now.
 I'm guilty. I love bargains, deals, specials, freebies, and Fridays. I also like to keep my Mac running with up-to-date software that has that minty spring freshness. Enter AppFresh and fresh Mac software updates.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Adobe thinks different with unique CS3 bundles and higher prices.
 I'm an original Photoshop user going back to version 1.x. I learned not to upgrade every version. My last Photoshop upgrade was the original CS. It's time to upgrade again and boy, have times changed.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Better than Stuffit. Better than OS X's Archive zip. This is zip with features.
 Remember the days of small hard drives and a large number of files? Remember Stuffit, the utility we used to compress Mac files to save space or to send files to others? Those days are almost, but not quite, gone. It's time for a better zip for OS X.
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