Mac
This is where you will find all the pages tagged Mac.
Yojimbo Import Scripts for Mailsmith and NetNewsWire
The central point of Yojimbo, as I see it, is that you can just throw bits of information into it without really thinking much at all. It’s a deceptively simple application, and most of the places where it gets particularly clever – like, say, the Drop Dock and the Quick Input window – share the same fundamental purpose: to make it as easy and frictionless as possible to add new bits of information.
Daring Fireball: Yojimbo Import Scripts for Mailsmith and NetNewsWire
Merlin Mann on Google Desktop for Mac
So far, my Google Desktop returns — both in the browser and from the Quicksilver-like search field — seem like a less intelligent dump. It seems convenient without being useful. Maybe I need to spend more time with it. Or maybe I need to hold out for the inevitable Quicksilver plug.
Google Desktop Day 1 | 43 Folders
Daylight Saving Time guide for your Mac
We don't have Day Light Savings Time (DST) over here so I have been left unaware of the hassle this change is causing many.
Ars Technica has rounded up a comprehensive guide for DST updates for Macs, covering Macs running anything from OS X 10.0 and up.
The comprehensive Daylight Saving Time guide for your Mac
Keeping a Hot Backup of Your Mac Hard Drive
You don’t really understand the importance of backups until your hard drive crashes. With most backups, you’ll need to reinstall the operating system and then restore all of your data. OS X comes with a handy tool that will let you create a live copy of your hard drive that can be started up and run just like it is your computer.My Powerbook had to go in for some repairs a few months ago, but I couldn’t afford to be without my computer for 3 days. By creating a live bootable copy of my entire computer to an external drive, I was able to ship off my laptop, plug my hard drive into an old G3 iMac, and continue working just like I was on my Powerbook. It was slower of course, but I still had access to all of my data, programs and settings. When the Powerbook came back, I simply copied the external hard drive over my laptop hard drive, rebooted and continued working with very little downtime.
Keeping a Hot Backup of Your Mac Hard Drive
Use your BlackBerry Pearl as a Bluetooth Modem under OS X
In the long tradition of only writing software when it solves something that annoys me, I’ve written an OS X modem script for the BlackBerry 8100 (a.k.a. Pearl). If you have an 8100, you can now use it as a Bluetooth modem with your Mac. Here’s how you use it
Fibble.org: Use your BlackBerry Pearl as a Bluetooth Modem under OS X
Monocle
A spotlight for the web.
Monocle is a simple search tool that puts a universal search field at your disposal. When you want search, you can choose from a number of engines to perform the search in different places. Monocle comes preloaded with engines for Google, Wikipedia, Windows Live Search and Yahoo! Search. You can easily add your own engines by performing an example search inside a web browser window in Monocle.
The Pricey Mac Myth
've been thinking a lot about the conventional wisdom that, regardless of what you think of Apple computers, they cost a lot more than regular PCs. I've doubted this for the past few years, but never got off my ass to investigate it. It seems to me that Apple's reputation for pricey-ness comes in large part from the fact that, for a very long time, all of Apple's computers were configured and priced at the professional level, whereas a huge range of prices existed in the PC world. Apple evangelists like myself have long sniffed (rightly, I think most people would agree) that the very cheapest PCs are generally built from low-quality, low-performance components, and that it's a good thing Apple doesn't sell anything like that. But, until fairly recently, Apple didn't have anything aimed at the huge consumer market.
stickybuffalo: The Pricey Mac Myth
Use Quicksilver for quick timed reminders
Using the latest version, B49, I found two interesting actions: Run at Time... and Run after Delay.... For the longest time, I couldn't figure out what type of object would have these actions defined. Then when I was playing around with the Proxy Objects in the Catalog section, I noticed the Last Command object. I tried fooling around with it, and low and behold, there was Run at Time... and Run after Delay... in the Action list! There are tons of possibilities for these actions, but one that I thought was very interesting was the ability to set quick reminders for yourself.
macosxhints.com - Use Quicksilver for quick timed reminders
Finding unknown Mac applications
We all love lists. Dustin Bachrach has complied a list of his favourite unknown Mac applications. Only one on his list, CocoaMySQL, is useful for me but I love finding these hidden gems.
Bring back Chezmark! I used to visit that site religiously.
Getting online with 3g and your Mac
Over the past year, a new option for getting online wirelessly—third-generation (3G) cellular data networks—has become increasingly practical for Mac users. In 2007, expect more hardware options, better network coverage, and (unfortunately) some confusion as new 3G network standards come on line.With an account from a cell phone carrier and the right plug-in card, 3G cellular networks let you get online from pretty much anywhere you can get a cell signal and provide pretty respectable speeds. You no longer have to hunt around for an open Wi-Fi network.
Macworld: Feature: Living in a 3G world
Connect your smartphone to your Mac
The e-mail–focused BlackBerry, by Research in Motion (RIM), inaugurated the smart-phone category and is still largely regarded as a must-have accessory in corporate and government realms. Its Mac support is fairly limited, but e-mail junkies (and people whose jobs require them to be available at all times) can convince a BlackBerry to sync with their Macs.RIM doesn’t offer desktop management software for OS X, but the company does freely distribute (as long as you’re willing to provide your name, address, and e-mail address) Information Appliance Associates’ PocketMac for BlackBerry 4.0, which is a Universal app.
PocketMac for BlackBerry works very much like Apple’s iSync—no doubt because it was formerly an iSync plug-in. The current incarnation functions better as a stand-alone program, avoiding some of iSync’s limitations. You use PocketMac to choose which data you want to synchronize to various programs on the Mac. This approach allows you to be eclectic—for example, using iCal for your calendar and tasks, and Entourage for contacts and e-mail.
Macworld. Get in Sync: BlackBerry
