I may have just fallen off the proverbial turnip truck on this one, but until yesterday I had no idea it was possible to combine audio devices in OS X so that my recording software would see all of the various audio inputs as one device. Why is this useful? I’m using Propellerhead Record with [...]
Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Blogging from the iPad
Like quite a few others I imagine, I received an iPad this morning. I believe the UPS driver’s exact words were, “Enjoy your iPad.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/vandypants/4486246761/ Mostly what I’m doing right now is checking out the typing, and the WordPress app. (Oh! I’m super impressed with the Pages app, by the way.)
MacJournal Testing
So I got this new Macheist nano bundle thingy and it came with an application called MacJournal from Mariner Software. This is a $39 piece of software that I had looked at earlier when browsing around for some journaling software, so I spent $20 and picked up a copy. The purpose of this post is [...]
Playing around with Woopra
http://www.woopra.com opened up to the public on 10/20/2009. Looks pretty cool!
Activating Audible Books for Kindle 2 Mac Users
Sounds strange, but I recently wanted to put one or two of my favorite audio books on the Kindle 2, just so they would be there in case the need arose. Currently it is not possible to activate the Kindle device on a Macintosh using Audible’s web site. I probably could have just tried this, [...]
Updated Mac Software Switchers Post
This is an update to my “switchers” post, a guide to cool software for your Mac if you just switched from another platform or are just generally new to the game. Here we go, still in absolutely no particular order … iStat Menus Displays data about available disk space, fan speeds, internal temperatures, network activity, [...]
VMware Fusion
I finally jumped on the Fusion bandwagon and let me say that I am quite impressed. For those who don’t know, Fusion is software that lets you seamlessly run Windows applications on Mac OS X. Now ordinarily I wouldn’t need to do this—I would just go look for the, usually better, Mac software—but there are [...]
Loving EyeTV 250 Plus
I am absolutely loving Elgato’s EyeTV 250 Plus. Right now I’m watching the Presidential news conference while “24″ records in the background. The ClearQAM digital cable pickup of local high definition signals is brilliant. Also, the software is actually really nice and works well. I’m going to experiment with editing out the commercials prior to [...]
Mac Software for Switchers and/or Newbies
This is a fairly generic guide to most of the software that I feel is essential for an Apple Macintosh. It isn’t exhaustive, extensive, authoritative, or any other “-ive”, but it may be a good place for you to start if you are new to Macs. Everything is free or has a trial version.
Why? Because I just spent the better part of a couple hours writing an email to a friend who just switched from Windows, and I figure maybe it will be helpful to others as well. And I wish I would have had a simple guide like this when I started a few years ago. (I’m sure they are out there, I probably just didn’t look for them.)
Here we go, in absolutely no particular order …
Help Us Find Stu McNaught
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