Time travel in Mac OS X

Apple touts Time Machine, their backup technology, as a marvel. But there are other forms of time travel. (The moiré pattern is a result of taking a photo of a laptop screen; the laptop was rather busy at the time.) Mac Continue reading Time travel in Mac OS X

Who can resist a cute kitten?

Apple is very fond of naming Mac OS X after the top predator in North America. So fond, in fact, that they did it more than once: Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma), Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Apple also Continue reading Who can resist a cute kitten?

Literary references to Macintosh applications

Have you ever said to yourself, “I want a native Mac OS X hex editor that can handle files of unlimited size?” Of course you have. What you need is 0xED, and it is free: http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html It is also Lion Continue reading Literary references to Macintosh applications

Posting via MacJournal

3360 MacJournal is an inexpensive application that allows you to blog — or create a local journal on your Mac, or both — using a full, native Mac application. There are also iPhone and iPad versions, but we’ll ignore them Continue reading Posting via MacJournal

Posting via iPad

3941 There are few things more 21st century than blogging. And there is an app for that! Since WordPress is synonymous with blogging, the iPad and iPhone app is called: WordPress. It is on the iTunes store, is free, and Continue reading Posting via iPad

Comic Life review

A review of a software package, Comic Life, done in the form of a comic. Printed in Washington Apple Pi Journal.