Tag Archive for tag: macintosh
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Tag Archive for tag: macintosh
Think Secret has a story today (Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room) about rumors of Apple launching a set-top Mac mini at Apple Expo next month. I’ve been waiting to upgrade my ailing 1st generation TiVo and ailing DVD player, and now it looks like maybe Apple will [...]
Many moons ago, in the age of MacOS Classic, I used this great little app (desk accessory) called Easy Envelopes from Ambrosia Software. It was the best envelope-printing tool I’ve ever used. Fast, easy, and prints USPS barcodes and stuff. They never updated it for OS X… UNTIL NOW. Easy Envelopes is now a Dashbooard [...]
I received my copy of Apple’s new iWork bundle today. I haven’t checked out Keynote 2, yet, but other initial reviews speak highly of it. I use presentation software so rarely that I doubt I’ll do more than skim it for the foreseeable future. Pages, on the other hand, is the whole reason I bought [...]
Daring Fireball: A Big Garage hits it right on the head:
“What’s so cool about GarageBand is that it exemplifies the market that Apple is going after. People who want to use their computers to make cool things. People who want to be producers, not just consumers. If it’s possible to distill into a single thought [...]
Mark Morford wrote in last week’s SF Gate a tribute (of sorts) to Apple’s packaging. He was dead on. When I bought my iPod, I was amazed at the packaging. The iPod was presented like a piece of art or an elaborate gift. The origami-like box that kept folding open again and again. To be [...]
