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Apple Refreshes iPod Shuffle, Nano, And iPod Touch.
Sep 1st
Today, at Apple’s September 1st Music Event Steve Jobs refreshed the iPod product line, making the Shuffle and the Nano smaller and the Touch thinner. Jobs did unveil some other goodies like iTunes 10 and the new iTV, however, In this post I am just going to be focusing on the new iPods. Here’s the run-down of the updates:
iPod Shuffle
This year, Apple sort of updated the Shuffle to look like the 2nd generation one, except smaller. It still supports Voice Over, but they now brought the buttons back for the people that need something to touch.
Apple slashed the Shuffle’s price More >
Top 5 Safari Extensions
Jun 21st
Along with Safari 5 came a nice little feature, extensions. Extensions allows developers to make little modifications/additions to Safari and then let people download them like they would an application. Today, I am going to be telling you my top five favorite Safari Extensions.
You may need some help enabling Safari Extensions. Click here. Also, make sure you’ve installed the new Safari 5 before trying to turn extensions on!
Gmail Checker
Gmail Checker places a little button with a mail icon in Safari’s toolbar next to the address bar. The little red notification dot appears when you have new emails in your Gmail More >
Review: ScreenGrab for Mac
May 19th
Do you like to take screenshots? What do you do with the screenshot after you take it? Do they just sit there on your desktop feeling all lonely and unused? Why don’t you share them!
That’s where ScreenGrab for Mac comes in. ScreenGrab has something a little different from the built-in screenshot taking keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X.What makes ScreenGrab different is that it gives you the option to have your screenshots automatically named and uploaded to your website via FTP.
ScreenGrab has other nice features including automatically shortening the url of the image, open in web browser after upload, delete local More >
5 Must-Have Free Mac Apps
Mar 18th
Are you in search for some great applications for your Mac? You’ve come to the right place! In this post I am going to be going over five of my favorite applications for the Mac.
TweetDeck is by far the best Twitter client for the Mac. Even If you don’t have a Mac, you can still use TweeTdeck because it runs on Adobe Air, meaning it can be ran on Mac, PC, and Linux machines. In addition to twitter, TweetDeck also supports Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn. TweetDeck auto-refreshes for you so you don’t to hit that little refresh button every More >
Fully Delete Apps Off Your Mac With AppDelete
Mar 8th
One thing that OS X is missing is a solid and simple way of removing applications, screensavers, plugins, widgets, and preference panes. AppDelete fixes this. When you open AppDelete, you are greeted with a simple trash can on a gray background. Thats it. Except for a few menu items at the top of the window. If you are a neat-freak Mac user or just trying to save some space on your hard drive, this is an app for you. AppDelete is also great for if you’re like me and test out a lot of applications on a regular basis and More >
Switching Over to OS X
Feb 23rd
Yes, I switched over to OS X! Last Sunday I walked over to my local Apple store and bought the 2.53Ghz Mac mini. 4GB of RAM. 320GB hard drive. After using it for a few days, I LOVE IT! It’s great! Fast, small, and elegant, I love the Mac mini.
This is just a short and quick post. I just wanted to announce to everyone that I am now a Mac. Do you know of any good Mac apps that I should download? I have been testing out a few and will be doing some reviews on them later.
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iRip Saved My Life
Feb 23rd
Have you ever had a computer break and lost all your iTunes? The other day, this happened to me. My computer would not turn on. After tinkering with it for a few minutes, trying to turn it on, nothing happened. When I bought a new computer, I suddenly realized that something was missing. My iTunes. Probably some of the most valuable data on my computer. Gone. Luckily, I had all my iTunes music on my iPhone. After doing a little searching, I ran across an application called iRip by The Little App Factory. I read about it a little more, More >