Archive for the 'Software Picks' Category
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Found this new program via TUAW the other day. LogicielMac is the Software Update equivalent for all your non-Mac apps. Its a nifty little program that resides on your menu bar and using it is as easy as these three steps. 1. Right click to check for updates. Apparently I had plenty of outdated apps [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Twitter is so much more fun when more people are on it, so I’ve decided the best way is to publish a step-by-step guide for the common tom, dick and harry. This is especially targeted at the local market (addressing concerns about cost and that type of thing). Enjoy and once you’ve signed up, look [...]
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
I’m a little backlogged on posts so here are quick shorts on some of the stuff I’ve been planning to write about but haven’t had the time to cover in detail. Malaysian all-girl team, Joe Jer and Zabrina win the Amazing Race Asia – the first female duo to ever win any edition the race. [...]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Since last summer my friends and I have been redefining the use of status messages on Gmail chat. Instead of the regular, “busy”, “available” or “away” messages – we would use the input box to post personal updates. Through our status messages we would let each other know if we were having a bad day, [...]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
I might unnecessarily be showing my age off here but I’m sure many of you still remember the days when almost everybody instead of computer generated color ripples, or family photo slideshows, had toasters flying across their computer screens. The highly popular After Dark screen saver was first released in 1989 for Macintosh users by [...]
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Bulletpoint highlights from yesterday. Totally addicted to Twitter and Twitterific. Feeder 1.4 Update released. Calvin Keen needs a new Mac. Recorded Convergent Journalism Podcast Episode 3 with Susan. First McDonald’s burger of the year (will keep it to 1/month maximum).
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
I find it interesting that as soon as I started using WriteRoom, I started coming across articles from other websites discussing the application and its features. There’s been coverage here, here, here and here. As it turns our Version 2.0 was released recently, to the dismay of some because it moved from being Freeware to [...]
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
I’ll be blogging more often nowadays thanks to Mars Edit – an application I’ve had on my system for quite some time now, but have never really had the time to fire up and test. Mars Edit is a full featured, offline, blog editor. So far, I’ve tried it with my server-based WordPress installation and [...]
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