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Category Archives: Macintosh

Leopard Day

Saturday, October 27, 2007

I really don’t know why I was so excited about Leopard. I spend quite a bit of the day vicariously installing Leopard through people like Alec. I think the big countdown timer on the Apple site made it feel like more of an event than it was for me personally. I will definitely get Leopard [...]

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4 Countdowns

Thursday, October 25, 2007

It occurred to me earlier that starting today, there are four significant countdowns in my life: Tomorrow (Oct. 26) Apple releases Leopard. I suppose this isn’t really that significant or specifically involve me, but I am looking forward to the updated OS. I think that having automated backups via Time Machine will be the best [...]

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Request for opinions – screencast formats

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

I’m working on a guide to digital audio for educators as part of my M.Ed. program, and part of the guide will include screencasts on things like recording/editing with Audacity, recording/editing with Garageband, etc. My question is which is the better format for screencasts – Quicktime or Flash video? (I had one suggestion that I [...]

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Searching for a Mac Text Editor – some reviews

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

As part of my M.Ed. project, I’ll be building a web site. Most sane people would do this using Dreamweaver or some similar product. I, however, am not one of those people – I prefer to create web pages by hand-coding the HTML and CSS files. I suppose if I wanted to be uber-geeky about [...]

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Offline blogging tools – test 2

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Another test post using an offline blogging tool. This time I’m trying MarsEdit. It looks nice too!

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Offline blogging tools – test 1

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Sorry for the RSS feed noise, but I’m testing ecto, an offline blogging tool for the Mac (Windows version also available).

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Quicksilver resource links

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Some day, I will need to do a quick summary of Quicksilver. It has been one of the coolest tools available to me since I returned back to the Mac-o-sphere. In the meantime, if you are a Mac user (using OS X 10.4) you should go get QS and install it right now. Once you’ve [...]

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