A date for the new cat on the block

17Oct07

Obviously the biggest news this week has been the news that Mac OS X ‘Leopard’ has gone Golden Master1 and then hours later Apple announces to the world that Leopard will arrive on Friday 26th October at 10am PDT (which just so happens to be the day I get paid, coincidence? I think not…). [...]

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Tip of the Week: Get fake Stacks in the Dock

09Aug07

So anyone who’s drooling over the new Stacks feature in Leopard, look no further. You have always been able to do the same kind of thing in OS X, it’s just Stacks are making it into pretty eye-candy as well as making it easier to use. If you want to emulate the Downloads [...]

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Tip of the Week: Make Dock items of hidden apps translucent

19Jul07

It looks like I’ve gone and given up on my blog again, but I promise you, I haven’t. Slow news brings very few blog posts. So when things pick up a bit, so will I. But I am soldiering on with my Tips of the Week and Picks of the Week, so [...]

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Tip of the Week: Close all an app’s windows at once

12Jul07

So this is one I didn’t know my self until recently, and unfortunately it’s another Key command (I know, I’ll get something different for next week). So, have you ever had several windows open that belong to the same app and you want to get rid of them all at the same time? [...]

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Tip of the Week: Force Quit any App using Key Command

05Jul07

So what happens when your Mac just becomes really sluggish because of that one App that’s hogging all of your resources and you can’t get the Force Quit dialog open because the Menu Bar is beachballing and you can’t get Activity Monitor launched? Most people would give up and wait for something to happen, [...]

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Dashcode it!

30Apr07

Firstly, I know, I know! I’ve been really slack with my posting since the New Year, but I’ve been trying to concentrate on my A-Levels and I’ve got exams soon so hopefully I’ll be able to spend more time procrastinating and posting interesting posts here.
And now, to the feature presentation: I have finally got around [...]

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Well well well…

17Sep06

Ok, so I didn’t post the news immediately, it’s mostly due to the fact that I have been drooling over the new iPod Nano. I know of plenty of people that hate it, and were glad to see the back of the iPod Mini, but it is damn sexy.
the iPod Shuffle, while still being [...]

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The Choicest OS X Applications

10Jul06

So after a good few weeks of using my iMac, I am now confident that I have found a winning combination of apps that can satisfy all of my needs. They really are very good, and so inevitably some of them have to be paid for, which of course I can’t do, having no [...]

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Uno – For that unified OSX interface

19Jun06

To this day, I have yet to understand the reason for Apple’s decision to create an inconsistent interface across the board with several major styles used to varying degrees throughout the system. Toss in a little pinstriping (unfocused windows), a little brushed (Safari, iTunes, & Finder), and last but not least, lets throw in [...]

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