For over a year, I’ve bemoaned the fact that Apple’s iWork suite doesn’t perform auto-saves considering that nearly every other office suite or stand-alone word processing program offers this feature. Maybe I was wrong and Steve Jobs was right. I’ve been working with Office 2007 at my temp job to put together reports that combine …
I’ve been an a political kick the last couple of weeks what with all the convention folderol and elephant dung-slinging that’s been going on. But there are other parts to my life . . . like being a geek. Here’s my current desktop arrangement: (GeekTool is showing my current iTunes song, the background is “Surreal …
This is a great hint that can help make your workflow go a bit more smoothly. I especially like it when I’m uploading items via ftp. After you do the Terminal command, if you hover over a dock icon while dragging a file: . . . the item will open and be shown. So if …
Ok, so this is probably not new to most of you, but I just found out that “Cmd + ~” will switch between windows of an application. Now, I’ve been using “Cmd + Tab” forever, both on Window’s boxes and on the Mac. In fact, I use Proteron’s “LiteSwitch X” because it beefs up the …
While there are some slight bumps to the computing power of Macbook Pros, the biggest difference between the previous generation and the current is the addition of a multi-touch trackpad. If you are willing to forgo that, this is a kick-ass time to get a Macbook Pro for some really good prices. MacMall has the …
These are a few of my favorite Mac programs: Ecto — This is the program I use for blogging when on my own computer. For a long while, pretty much since it’s been available, I’ve been using the version 3 betas and while I’ve definitely had a few hiccups here and there (primarily with posts …
This is one of the more gorgeous examples of steampunk mods I’ve come across. I adore my Macbook Pro, but stuff like this is beautiful on a whole other level. If I were to go into graduate school, analytic, pretentious intellectual mode, I would write about how steampunk taps into people’s desire to have a …
An exciting development in the fight against HIV/AIDS: Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, says his team has identified a gene called TRIM22 that can block HIV infection in a cell culture by preventing the assembly of the virus. “When we put this gene in cells, it prevents …
I came across this great hint on MacOSXHints.com that I thought I’d share with any of you fellow Leopard users: When using the volume control function keys on an Apple laptop, there’s a limited amount of control over the volume — each key press moves the volume by one entire unit in the onscreen bezel. …
So it seems that whenever I try to edit static pages with Safari, all the formatting gets messed up. I was at my wits end trying to figure out what was going on until I thought to myself, “Self,” I thought, “Maybe you should try another browser, just on the off-chance that somehow it’s a …