Problem is, everyone is so tough to shop for. Everybody already has everything there is, or at least one of everything that exists, right?
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Month: December 2006
Icicle Lights on Crack
OK, it’s time for my annual diatribe against icicle lights. The new neighbor across the road put his up Thanksgiving weekend. They are the
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Year End Show and Sharon Aker
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What was the biggest Mac stories of 2006? Tim, Chad, and Guy look at the Mac world in review. Also, David Cohen’s Fenestration, and Nemo interviews author Sharon Aker.
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Real World Mac OS X Fonts
Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X: Tiger Edition
Macspiration 66
Digital Imagery Tech Terms – 3
Many people will be getting a new, or their first, digital camera this holiday season. With that in mind, I thought it was a good time for a list of digital photography and digital imagery tech terms. Keep in mind, these are not dictionary definitions. These are terms explained in a way that your grandmother (at least my grandmother) can understand.
FastMac 15″ MacBook Pro Extended Life Battery
Review
The most obvious appeal of a MacBook/MacBook Pro (aside from warming one’s lap in cold weather) is the ability to run from a battery, untethered from AC power sockets. Compared to PC laptops, Apple laptops have long suffered from relatively short battery life.
Read MoreI learned about DTP from that…
How I wound up as a professional technogeek is a long and semi-interesting tale. It involves multiple computing platforms, multiple job shifts, and a whole lotta dumb luck.
Read MoreThankful For Being A Mac User
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Holiday time is a time for reflection. For thinking about the things you are thankful for. Some recent experiences I’ve had with my own computers have reminded me of how grateful I am to be a Mac user. Problems this month include no start-up chime, problems with Mail, and AppleWorks / TextEdit.
MagStay Pro
Review
The MagStay Pro is tiny plastic fitting plug that increases the force required to unplug the MagSafe plug. Is it worth it, or should you avoid it?
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Google’s Online Office OptionsÂ
For years the standard in word processing and spreadsheet programs has been a program housed on your computer’s hard drive. You run the program off the computer, and save everything on your computer or an external device. Recently, online applications have started popping up and they are starting to become a nice, viable, and free option.
Read MoreDigital Photography – Expert Techniques
Review
With a plethora of digital cameras appearing in the marketplace, purchases of these cameras has exceeded even the most ambitious sales predictions. If you have one, perhaps this is the book you need to get the most from your digital photography.
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Mikkel Aaland
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This week, Nemo interviews Photoshop CS2 RAW book author Mikkel Aaland. Also, what to do with an old Mac? The latest from David Cohen in the Fenestration series. And just in time, the Speedy Gift Guild for all you procrastinating holiday shoppers.
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Photoshop CS2 RAW
Mikkel Aaland
Twistball
NuLOOQ Navigator
iMainGo
Buying Used Macs
People buy used Macs for all sorts of reasons. Often the prime motive to passing over the latest model out of Cupertino is the need to save money. After all, a G3 or G4 iMac might not be the fastest thing on the block, but it will certainly prove to be a rock-solid word processing and web-surfing machine. Students in particular are always like to find bargains, and a used iBook or one of the older G4 PowerBooks may only cost a few hundred dollars but will still provide all the horsepower you need to write a dissertation, carry out research on the Internet, and keep up your coursework.
iMovie On the Cheap
Got five bucks? Wanna learn more about iMovie and filming? Check out this ebook by Chris Seibold!
Kibbles and Bytes – 495
Best iTunes Format Feedback, MacTreat # 8, Review of 2006 Predictions, MS Vista on a Mac
Nemo Memo
The Best Internet Radio You’ve Never Heard
When America Online (AOL) became a free-subscription service recently, members no longer need to pay for its features, except tech support. Tens of millions of people worldwide continue to use AOL. Among them are clever Macintoshers who join only for an AOL Instant Message (AIM) identity that is compatible with Apple’s excellent iChat, and that provides a second-rate webmail service that is finally straightforward and stable.
iFrogz Tadpole
Review
Children in the kindergarten through third grade can be rough on toys. If one of these toys for your child in that age group is an iPod, you want to make sure it is protected. The Tadpole iPod case for the 30GB, 60GB, and 80GB iPod with video by iFrogz is a case you might want to consider.
Read MoreWither the pen, I think the keyboard is far mightier
A friend (John Welch) and I were talking about pen centric computing, and we were in fierce agreement that it is not the revolution that some people pretend. Coincidentally, or because of the renewed interest, I saw an excellent speech on the state of the art in pen computing; what Microsoft and other researchers around the country are doing with the technology and where they expect it to go.
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Book Bytes Special Seasonal Sampler
Delicious Library
Review
Do you have a library full of books, a collection of DVDs, CDs and/or games? Do your friends drop by to borrow any of these items and can it be hard to remember who got what item at what time? Or is it even hard to remember what precisely you have? Then you may want to give Delicious Library a try.
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