Category Archives: Technology

This is one of those tips I use so little in Quicksilver that I keep forgetting it. Here’s how to set a default selection for a command in Quicksilver thanks to Lifehacker…
Quicksilver lovers who are sick of arrow-ing down QS’s list of suggestions for a keyword can manually set an item as the default. For [...]

Get LiquidCD if you need a great piece of freeware that burns CDs and DVDs built for Mac OS X.
LiquidCD can:

Burns MP3, AAC or QuickTime audio to an audio CD
Can be used to make backups of your data
Can burn a PictureCD of your photos for viewing on a TV with a PictureCD compatible DVD [...]

The Great Mac OS X Freeware List at MacApper

Gmail is now rolling out IMAP access for email to some accounts. This is good news and here’s why.
More here:
Official Gmail Blog: Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP

Upgraded my MacBook to 2 gig of ram yesterday. I’m noticing things launch faster and run faster–everything is generally faster. That was a cheap and easy performance boost.

Why I’m More Productive on a Mac – PaulStamatiou.com

Google docs is handy and in case you haven’t realized it’s potential maybe you need to watch this video.

Via: Official Google Docs Blog: And now we present…

OS X File Encryption

TokBox: Video chat without having to download software. May have to try this out since the MacBook has the built in iSight camera.

On treating your laptop, iPod, and iPhone batteries right

Tagging my bookmarks has been wonderful. Today I discovered Punakea for Mac OS X which looks very promising in that it will allow me to tag the mountain of files I seem to dig through every day looking for the one I need at the moment. Finding files can be irritating to say the least. [...]

I try to get things done (gtd), I really do. But when I can’t do it right away or I’m trying to do something else and an important item needs to be placed on my list of things to do I want a quick way to add it to my list so I can get [...]

Clever – Sentenc.es – A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Picked this up from the Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk

This is a very cool Firefox add-on that makes it possible to drag and drop attachments in Gmail – dragdropupload

iPhoto Cheat Sheet

Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Calibrating a MacBook or MacBook Pro battery

My First Mac – Help Buying and Getting Started with Your New Mac

I just hope I never need this: hackaddict.net: Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD

How to Make a Movie With Your iSight Camera

List of Essential and Must Have Mac OS X Applications
How to Password Protect Your Mac – must do this for that Macbook you carry everywhere
2007 Tutorama Contest Entries – great collection of Mac tutorials
A Beginner’s Guide to Quicksilver
How to Configure Your Mac’s Firewall

Here’s a cool Mac tool for Independence day: AppCleaner
AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to completely and properly uninstall unwanted apps.
It isn’t, in fact, sufficient to just delete an application. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.

Today’s Mac switcher tip: Learn to use Exposé, you’ll love it. F10 is especially helpful when I have several NeoOffice documents open at the same time.

Having recently switched from using a PC to doing all my work on a very nice Macbook I’ve found the following programs indispensable. Those making the switch from PC to Mac may find this list helpful.
Quicksilver: “A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.” – This application is slick. I [...]

Here’s help for PC to Mac switchers who wish to create a MAC image that can be burned on a PC.
Mac Help – Convert and Burn Mac .dmg or .img to .iso Windows PC-Compatible Disk Image
Other details here may be helpful as well: Create an ISO image on Mac OS X using built-in Disk Utility [...]

Protect Your Blog (or anything else) With a Solid Password

Lifehacker points to a cool trick: How to find latitude and longitude with Google Maps

David Pogue has a good rundown of where we’re at with the higher speed wifi 802.11n
A Faster Wi-Fi World Is Coming – New York Times

This has plagued me before on another notebook computer. I never figured out the problem on that machine so I resorted to just shutting down every time I moved from home to office because hibernation never worked for me.

Print the Gmail shortcuts page and keep it handy by your keyboard to learn to use Gmail more efficiently from the keyboard.

If you’ve heard of wiki’s or not–if you’ve thought of trying out a wiki or not, there’s an easy, free way to get started with a wiki at PBwiki.com. Check out the PBwiki tour to get started. I like free and easy too–and I’d say that about PBwiki.com even if they weren’t doubling my space [...]