Adventures of MatBook
A couple more shortcuts
Dialogue boxes
When closing an un-saved document, you’ll usually get the “Do you want to save changes to this document before closing?” dialogue box appear. It’s always bugged me that I have to using my mouse (or trackpad) to select one of the options in here: Save, Cancel or Don’t Save.
Here to keystrokes to activate […]
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iPhone
Months of speculation ended today as Steve Jobs announced the much anticipated iPhone at Macworld San-Francisco.
With a large multi-touch display the iPhone combines three products - mobile phone, widescreen iPod, and an internet communications device with email and …
New iPods
Apple introduced updates to the iPod family yesterday. Updates to the iPod include a 60 percent brighter display and longer battery life. The new iPod comes in two flavours, 30 and 80GB at £189 and £259 respectively. The longer battery life apparently makes the iPod perfect for watching movies out and about, with the 30GB offering three and a half hours and the 80GB delivering …
OS X Leopard Preview
Apple have announced that Steve Jobs and co will kick start the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of Mac OS X Leopard. WWDC starts on Monday 7th August and runs until the 11th in sunny San Francisco.
Older News
MacBook here at last
Macs do Windows too
Will Apple Adopt Windows?
Bye bye click wheel?
New Intel powered iMac and MacBook Pro
Call for bloggers
iPod nano now ships with protective case
Motorola RAZR V3i with iTunes
One Million Videos in less than 20 days.
iTunes Video Content Wishlist
Apple Enhances PowerBooks
iTunes + The Times = Free Music
Video iPod and iTunes 6. Creating a new market?
New Macs and upgraded iPod’s
NewsGator acquire NewsNetWire
iTunes for PocketPC?
Apple to reveal new major product
Apple confirms Mac mini upgrades
Another Apple site.
Reviews
Bookit
Browser orgies and managing bookmarks
I like browsers. I like them so much I have loads of them, and often have more that three open at the same time like some big browsing orgy. One week Safari is my favourite another week Firefox will be my best friend. Sometimes I’m forced to stop using one…
Hog Bay Notebook
Ok lets first address the name “Hog Bay Notebook” - well it’s not a great name is it. Ok that’s all the negatives out of the way lets get on with the review.
Hog Bay Notebook is by far the best notebook/outliner for the Mac that I have ever used. Coded entirely in cocoa with a simple elegant aqua interface this application just oozes quality, in-fact you could be forgiven for thinking it was shipped with your computer…
Daily Dump
A sneek peek of Safari tabs on youTube, complete with FireFox style drag and drop goodness.
We may be off the air for a bit over the next few days as we move all of our pixels over to our new home at TextDrive. Hopefully you wont notice the difference.the difference.Update: All moved without a hitch. Nice.
Designer and developer Dan Benjamin talks about his Mac software set up. Dan is 50% of cork’d and the daddy of the A List Apart CMS.
Headdress turns your Mac into a nice little server, capable of virtually hosting several websites in your local network. With Headdress you won’t need to nest your sites or dig through configuration files, and turning PHP on is a breeze with one click activation.
creativebits.org is a professional blog and community site for graphic designers working on Mac OS X. It’s objective is to provide graphic designers a professional forum where they can share tips and tricks, follow up on the industry’s events and ask for help and critique from fellow members.(via Zeldman)
Google Calendar tips written by Douglas Bowman is a great item to bookmark if your a Google calendar user or thinking about giving it a go. Some useful mac tips thrown in for free.
The Google Maps Plugin enables you lookup your Apple Address Book addresses using Google Maps as well as get directions between your Address Book addresses.
Software design engineer David Weiss gives a tour of Microsoft’s Mac lab. I’ve never seen so many Macs in one place.
Nice article about using metadata to to locate files instead of hierarchical folders.